Yep that's right.. After over a year of fooling with all this wetshaving awesomeness, I grabbed a Hydro5 cart for the first time in a long time as I was in a hurry to get to work:
-Hot shower with a light face scrubbing with St. Ives scrub
-cold water rinse
-Thin layer of Shave Secret as pre-shave, left to sit while I lather
-another splash of cold water
-nice thick layer of bowl lathered Razorock Classic made with a Whipped Dog Silvertip
-cold water rinse
-air dry, then Thayer's Lemon
After ONE pass, I was at DFS status with absolutely no irritation, verified by my lemon Thayer's not stinging at all afterwards.
Granted, this is still using all of the techniques I've learned using DEs and decent quality stuff.
I have yet to have an irritation-free DE shave, so I'm a tad let down, but at the same time, this is giving me hope that I'm on the right track! Given this information, I think the main things I need to work on now are blade angle and pressure when using my DE/SEs.
I have also concluded now, after a few weeks of trying cold water shaves, that for my skin it seems to work much better. I get less irritation and ingrowns overall with cold. My shaves are still as relaxing as they were with warm water after the initial shock, but much more invigorating!
-Hot shower with a light face scrubbing with St. Ives scrub
-cold water rinse
-Thin layer of Shave Secret as pre-shave, left to sit while I lather
-another splash of cold water
-nice thick layer of bowl lathered Razorock Classic made with a Whipped Dog Silvertip
-cold water rinse
-air dry, then Thayer's Lemon
After ONE pass, I was at DFS status with absolutely no irritation, verified by my lemon Thayer's not stinging at all afterwards.
Granted, this is still using all of the techniques I've learned using DEs and decent quality stuff.
I have yet to have an irritation-free DE shave, so I'm a tad let down, but at the same time, this is giving me hope that I'm on the right track! Given this information, I think the main things I need to work on now are blade angle and pressure when using my DE/SEs.
I have also concluded now, after a few weeks of trying cold water shaves, that for my skin it seems to work much better. I get less irritation and ingrowns overall with cold. My shaves are still as relaxing as they were with warm water after the initial shock, but much more invigorating!
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