Thread: shaving BEFORE showering?

I think this is turning into a logic problem of hasty generalization. I think we can agree that a good shave is possible without a shower. Most barbers would agree atleast on principle with this. What happens after that would depend on skin type and prep. Some skin would puff out from heat, some hair follicals would extend, depending on the person. I think that you could also mimic the shower characteristics with pre-sink prep if you wanted to. I read a blog about a guy who couldn't figure out for weeks why he gets great shaves at the gym....dohhhh its because of the sweat you've soaked your beard in for an hour. I lliked what Superfly said about prep...makes sense that a shave before a shower would work IF you mimic the characteristics of a shower in your prep.

Hey I found this on the internet. Its not the end all to be all, but I might be wrong, mabe.

"Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen—it's called H2O because every molecule of water has two hydrogen atoms (H2) and an oxygen atom (O). When you wet your hair, water molecules sneak in between the proteins of the cortex and join these hydrogen bonds. Your hair swells up, absorbing up to 30 percent of its weight in water.

In wet hair, one protein molecule doesn't bond directly to another protein molecule. Instead, a protein is stuck to a water molecule, which is sticking to another water molecule, which is sticking to another protein. That's much weaker than having one protein stuck directly to the other protein—which is why wet hair is much weaker and more likely to break than dry hair. "