Shaving scuttles have been around as long as men have been shaving themselves. There are some cool vintage ones on Ebay at any given time. The idea is to keep your lather warm by keeping hot water in the bottom portion of a ceramic dish, while your soap/brush rests up above. Some entrepreneurial potters out [...]

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It’s nearing Christmas time, which means lots of TV advertising for electric shavers. When I was a kid, I used to like the commercial for Norelco featuring Santa riding one of their razors down a slope as though it were a sled. The brand name at the end would morph into the spelling “Noel co”. [...]

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I’ve mentioned that lots of guys get into wet shaving initially because they’re sick of paying through the nose for overpriced cartridge blade shaving systems, a la the Gillette Fusion. Yeah, you come for the money savings. Then, you get used to the sheer pleasure of warm lather being worked into your face with a [...]

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