What’s the Best Merkur Safety Razor For Beginners
When it comes to safety razors, they all seem pretty homogenous at first glance. You’ve got the solid, cylindrical handle, the butterfly head (either adjustable or fixed-gap), and the blade. Not much room for innovation or different there, right? Wrong. Merkur, for...
read moreThe Best Electric Beard and Mustache Trimmers: A Top 10 Comparison
So you’ve decided to forego the need for a safety razor, straight razor or Electric Razor and go down the path of becoming a bearded or stubbled gentleman by picking the best beard trimmer that you can find. Let’s face it – if you can grow a full fledged beard,...
read moreBest Safety Razors for Men: Reviews for Beginners & Shaving Pros
Shaving is part of how we care for that beautiful mug, and, more importantly, it’s a part of how we care for the man underneath. A few manly minutes out of the day can make you say, “Damn! I look good today.” Finding the best safety razor can be a challenge, so...
read moreWhat’s the Best Electric Shaver for Men? Ratings & Reviews
You’re a man on the go. You care about your style. You always look well-groomed, but all that shaving cream, hot-towel nonsense just doesn’t work with your schedule. You want to flip a switch and subdue your stubble, grab your brief case and get out the door....
read moreWhat’s the Best Shaving Brush: Ratings & Reviews
Okay, so you’re ditching the electric razor and trying to set up your first shave kit. You’ve seen the pictures and you’ve read all the blogs – you’ve got your safety razor, your shaving cream, a shaving soap incase that doesn’t work out, and some heavy white towels...
read moreHow to Use Shaving Soap: A Detailed Walkthrough for a Close Shave
Learning how to use shaving soap is probably one of the trickiest things to learn about wet shaving with a safety razor, oddly enough. The first couple weeks I tried it, I was just terrible – I didn’t know how much to lather up, when I was actually done, the right way...
read moreOverview of the Best Open Comb Razors: Reviews & Comparisons
When deciding what safety razor you want to buy, there might be one particular choice you might not even know you have to make – open comb or closed comb? Despite what may look to you as a purely cosmetic choice, there’s actually a lot of thought that should go into...
read moreThoughts on Wool Fat Shaving Soap: Is it Right For You?
There are a lot of shaving soaps out there, based around natural oils and waxes. Wool fat shaving soap, however, is probably one of the most widely discussed soaps out there, since it’s actually a bit controversial. Many who use it are divided on whether or not a good...
read moreThings You Need to Know About Shaving Cream Ingredients
Unlike the exfoliating and soothing oils traditionally associated with wet shaving, shaving cream is essentially face spackle – a fluffly barrier of marshmallow chemicals that is meant to make sure that scratchy razor doesn’t harm your pretty little face. It’s mostly...
read moreThe Best Manscaping Tools For Body Hair
Ah, manscaping – that wonderful colloquialism penned in the late 1990s to help the budding metrosexual place their body hair removal in a more masculine context. Not that there’s anything wrong with manscaping; you tend to look better, it accentuates other…ahem,...
read moreHelp Us Find a Good Stainless Steel Safety Razor – So Many to Choose From!
When it comes to safety razors, you know that shiny, chrome look that makes it feel authentic, traditional – like Teddy Roosevelt has just stepped out of a time portal and given you something to clean your face with. Some of that is due to aluminum or even some...
read moreThe Top 5 Horse Hair Shaving Brush: For Wet Shaving
When it comes to choosing your wet shaving brush, the kind of hair you use is important. There is badger hair, boar hair, any type of hair you might imagine (except human hair, thank you very much) – however, horse hair has quite a few advantages as a shaving brush...
read moreBest Shaving Creams for Men: Recommendations and Comparisons
We've had a ton of requests to start including shaving creams in our reviews. We have done a few. We feel we have left out some excellent shaving cream brands and products, and, well, we would like to redeem that. The great thing about most of the shaving creams we...
read moreOur Recommendations for the Travel Shaving Brushes
First off, we know you don't need a Cadillac of a shaving brush as your travel brush. By traveling with it, you run the risk of losing it, ruining it, or even having it confiscated by TSA (you never know). Our aim here is to provide you with great, economical brushes...
read moreThe Best Shaving Brush Kit: Reviews & More
Shaving brush kits go against a lot of what we have been saying in some of our other reviews. We always say things like "shaving sets are like golf clubs," you have the freedom, and you're encouraged to mix and match and find the best brush, razor, and shaving soap...
read moreWhat is the Best Straight Razor Set? Reviews & Our Favorites
So you want to buy a box set for straight razor shaving, aye? This is the easy route, sure. But if you're looking for the easy route, straight razor shaving just isn't for you. You are better off sticking to beard trimmers or electric shavers for your shaving needs....
read moreHow to Clean an Electric Razor: Cleaning Tips For the Electric Guy
Those electric razors are usually great for a lot of your facial hair needs – it’s a nice, easy way to get stubble taken care of, and they’re awesome if you don’t want to go through the ritualistic stuff that’s involved in wet shaving. (Not that there’s anything wrong...
read moreThe Best Shaving Brush: Reviews & Top Picks
Why bother with a shaving brush at all? Shaving brushes are used to stir shaving soap, as opposed to the aerosol canned shaving creams that burst forth with lather. The process of applying the brush with water and foamy lather to your face exfoliates your skin....
read moreLooking for a Good Old School Shaving Kit? We’ve Got a Few Ideas!
As we have said plenty of times before, old fashioned shaving products are making a huge comeback. Everybody is wanting to give the ol' straight razor and safety razors a chance. This comeback can be chalked up to nostalgia and economics. People want to bring back...
read moreWhat to Look for in a Safety Razor Stand: More Than You Think
So you just started wet shaving, huh? Oh, you’ve been doing it for 20 years? Well, either way you need to proper stand to support all your swanky shaving gear. When we make the transition to wet shaving, we don’t need to completely forfeit speed. Really, one of the...
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