Failed Experiment

Over the past few weeks I decided to part with my Merkur razor and go back to other methods of shaving.  Why I did this I’m not quite sure, but in the end it turned out to be and interesting experiment.  Failed experiment to be exact.

I pulled out my old Braun Electric.  I wanted the best experience I could so I went to Walmart and picked up new cutters.  Charged it up and put a good 2 weeks into the test.  I actually like the experience of shaving with an electric. Not the rotary kind.  The rotary pulls hairs instead of cutting them. The foil is much better because it sheers the hairs off.  But in the end the problem with these razors is their inability to fully trim neck hair.  I ended up going over the same spots every shave trying to get the flat hairs.  After 2 weeks my neck was pretty beat up and I started getting ingrown hairs along the jaw line and to the left and right of my adams apple.

If that wasn’t punishment enough I pulled out the old Gillette 5 blade.  Again using a new cartridge.  I shaved one time with King of Shaves gel and realized that wasn’t going to work.  I had always been told that the most important part of a good shave was not really the razor but the brush and shaving soap.  So I decided to use my old shaving soap and brush with the Gillette multi blade.  The end result was a poor shave and again lots of ingrown hairs.  This was even worse than the electric.

What is simply amazing is that after switching back to my Merkur Futur my face was healed and back to normal within 3 shaves.

I learned my lesson the hard way.