Shaving soap

How big is yours?

There is a current fashion for ridiculously large wrist watches, you are not a real man without half a pound of steel strapped to your wrist, yet I remember when […]

Otoko Organics Wet Shave Essentials

After the disaster that was Durance hard shaving soap you would think that I would give up on experimenting for a while. But I need to generate content for these […]

Durance Bol & Savon A Barbe

Here on the interwebs there are very many reviews of shaving products by consumers, in fact some websites actively encourage this by having dedicated areas for such content. You would […]

Some traditional shaving bargains

Several times on this blog I have commented on the tenuous relationship between quality and price in traditional shaving. There are shaving soaps and creams with fancy names on them […]

It is a while since we had a video article, so here is some fun from those zany Italians. Proraso are a long established company who make great shaving creams […]

Preservatives in shaving products

Today we have another guest writer, it is Krissy Yoder of the artisan soap maker Prairie Creations, who has written this fantastic article about some of the chemicals that go […]

Evaluating shaving kit

Regular readers will know that there are two strong recurring themes in the articles here. The first is the near infinite choice that is to be enjoyed in traditional shaving. […]

The Real Shaving Co. products

Some of the biggest names in traditional shaving manufacture nothing, they are merely retailers, they put their brand name on a range of products made by other people. And the […]

Traditional shaving attracts some very keen hobbyists whose hobby goes to the extent of making their own shaving brushes and making their own shaving soap. You can see the attraction […]