Thread: Just when I think....

Question! I get some extremely good (BBS I dare say) shaves almost everytime I go 2 to 3 days between shaves. However, if I try to shave every day, and sometimes every other day...it's uncomfortable, irritating, and difficult to get close. Does anyone else experience this? It almost acts as though my razor is dull. Pulling, tugging, dang sure not fun. When I go a few days the shave seems to be pleasant and the razor miraculously becomes sharper. Why does that happen?

I have noticed that I if I am going to shave every day I must left out ATG pass. If I do ATG every day my skin gets irritated. I normally shave 2-3 per week and there is actually no reason for me to shave more often I have also noticed that when doing ATG you I try to have really small angle on blade.

My skin is too sensitive for shaving daily with any frequency but when I have managed to do it I have to settle for a 1-1/2 pass shave instead of a 3 pass. This usually means cutting out the initial WTG pass and reducing ATG as well. It also means accepting a shave that is not as close, presentable but not much else.

Sometimes you gotta throw in the towel or suffer the resulting irritation.

I am in the same boat as Ryan82. A shave every 3rd day is optimal for me. Every day is too much, even if it is only one pass.

Well I shave every day just because I enjoy it so much, apart from Sunday. Nothing religious just always chilled out on Sunday with no shave even when in the dark days of multi blade shaving. Monday's shave is always the best shave of the week always BBS when DE shaving over the last 3/4 years. Getting there with straight shaves and now I'm getting BBS most Monday's.

Just kind of a shot in the dark here...........
Do you have a soap "rotation", or do you always use the same one? Maybe the "good shaves" are all with particular soaps and not with others?