Quote Originally Posted by kaptain_zero View Post
I will BEG you to throw that EDGE as far away as you can. It is honestly useless... You will have better success with a bar of shower soap. In fact, I will sometimes use Williams Mug Soap or Pears Glycerine soap, lathered with nothing more than my hand with good success, and I dare say infinitely superior to *anything* in the Edge product line. Use soap and WATER, it is wet shaving after all. A brush is nice, but using either of the above two soaps with just your hand to create lather is sufficient. In fact, I would propose that the current Williams Mug Soap does better without a brush than with.

As for brand of blades... it's very individual, my favourite blade may be the worst you have ever shaved with. It sounds as if you have a sampler pack, in which case select whatever blade you wish to try... Use the blade until it needs replacing and replace it with another blade from the same pack. Continue until the pack is empty... then, and only then, will you know for sure what you think of that blade for you. Every so often you get a *dud* blade.... even if it's your favourite, you will on occasion run across a bad one. If you do, just toss it and grab the next one. You never really know if the first blade you try is a good one, so use the entire pack before trying something else. I know it sounds boring and switching brands every time seems more fun, but may keep you from finding that elusive favourite blade and thus waste your time/money/effort.

It's a brave world out there.... when I first returned to wet shaving in the early 2000s, there were maybe 3 brands of blades one could obtain.... Thanks to the internet, more and more blades became available to us over the years.

And one last thing... if you live in an area that has HARD water, it WILL mess up wet shaving, and you *may* have to take steps to find some soft water for shaving only.


Good luck


Christian
Hmm. Maybe it's the water thing. I do know that my body soaps don't lather very well. I'm originally from Western KY and my soaps lather very well there. But here in Eastern KY there is a high amount of limestone that affects our water.

Now, about the Edge. I have tried regular soap before and I can tell you it felt like my razor was ripping every hair out! The Edge is by far superior to regular soap. However, if the Williams Mug is as good as you say it is, I will be glad to try it. Will order some today and compare. Thanks!