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Excellent! Thanks for all the ideas as to what's going on. I'm merely a humble chemist, so unless we're talking about shaving with harsh chemicals, I'm flying by the seat of my solvent soaked pants!

I would suppose then, if this explanation holds true, that cold water shaving is harder on an edge than hot water shaving? From what I understand cold water is making hair more "brittle", thus...

What is your reasoning behind this? I suppose one could say that the softening of the hair by lather does less damage than a dry hair. But there can't be much difference between the two I wouldn't...