Thread: Cold water shave is the best & worst ever

Originally Posted by thewatermark

Ive been wanting to try it, so do i still do a hot shower first to soften the whiskers before i do the cold lather ?

I've done it both ways. Depending on whether I take a shower before the shave. It doesn't seem to make a lot of difference since I will rinse my face with cold water following the shower. On days when I don't shower before my shave I was washing my face first but stopped doing that and began cold lathering on my dry face.

The main thing that I find makes a difference for me is, as the instructions in the pamphlet suggest, rubbing that first cold lather into my whiskers with my fingers. Then I do not rinse but re-lather and shave a WTG pass. If I don't do the rubbing in of the first lather I don't seem to get as good a shave as when I do ..... so I do it every time now. Not rinsing the lather off before re-lathering also works better for me. YMMV.