Thread: Water Temperature Theory

Originally Posted by Lemur

I believe it's the same water, they heat it in Boston where it gives an excellent shave, pipe it over to London, lukewarm but still good.
How it ends up in Egypt I haven't figured out yet, might be gravity since Egypt is pretty much right under London.

I told my Husky to stop digging those holes in the backyard before she digs clear through to the other side. I guess she made better progress than I thought.

So.. umm.. yeah.. it could be the water's characteristics i.e. soft/hard, mineralised etc that prescribes an optimal temperature combination. Would be interesting if we can start discerning something such as: with soft water, warm shaves are better and with hard better to have a cold shave..

I guess what I am thinking is try to deduce whether we are best served using hot or cold water depending on where we are rather than to just say every man is different etc.

Originally Posted by ffarouki

And once I was in Boston in the winter and could use even hotter temperatures.

I'm just north of Boston. I switched to cold water shaving this summer, after many years of hot water shaving. I've been getting better shaves with the cold water. The water here is slightly on the hard side.