Right, time to put on the thinking caps and offer up some possible solutions. I shave mostly with a cut-throat (CT) razor these days, but did add a DE razor into the rotation shortly (About 3 months) after stepping into the world of straights. I was at a point with the CT's where I wasn't getting quite as satisfactory a shave as I wanted, but was getting better every day. The DE was giving me a slightly better shave. All that has been turned around for sometime now and I get the best shave from the CT.
The problem I noticed, and one that took a while to figure out the cause of, is that I was getting a few ingrown whiskers here and there, but more than usual. Not as bad as I had ever gotten with the trusty M3's, but still...The CT and DE's were supposed to be the end of ingrowns.
It seems to me that I have now narrowed it down to the DE as the cause. If it is going to be noticed, it will be as soon as a day after a DE shave. My usual methods are to shave after a hot shower, building a lather on the face before commencing to shave first with a N/S pass, then with a S/N pass ignoring the various direction of hair growth. The ingrowns occur randomly so it seems direction of growth may be irrelevent.
Might this be a pressure issue? Blade issue? Or any number or combination of things?
It isn't a big enough problem to stop me using the DE, but it is bloody annoying, especially as the DE comes in handy when I don't allow quite enough time for a CT shave. And I like having it in the regular rotation.
Thanks for any help and advice Gents,
Mick