Originally Posted by
Jimbo
That, I think, is the marvellous thing about shaving with straights. To make an analogy with Darwin's theory of Natural Selection - any improvement, however slight, that provides any benefit, however small, to the user, is kept and passed on via questions and answers in the forums and by feedback at each shave. We are constantly evolving, by infinitesimal degrees, and this evolution is husbanded by the careful and wondrous variety of what we might call Shaving Selection, whereby at each shave (which we might equate to a generation in Darwin's parlance) techniques injurious to the user are gradually weeded out, and techniques beneficial, in however slight degree, are kept and passed along to the next "generation".
James.