Boots No7 for Men Protect & Perfect
The vanity of the world’s women leads them to spend billions of dollars every year for grease to put on their faces (and other bits of their bodies). They will […]
January 2011
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 […]
Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor shaved their faces
Kate Somerville is a famous brand in women’s skincare. She has a range of skin products, has a clinic in Los Angeles and looks after the skin of many Hollywood […]
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 […]
The Marketing Powerhouse that was and still is the Gillette Safety Razor Company, part 3
Here is the third in this fascinating series of articles by Matt Pisarcik of Razor Emporium: 1920’s: The New Improved The 1920’s brought with it the first major change to […]
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 […]
My shaving brush collection, #2 the badgers
In part one we dealt with the boar, horse and synthetic brushes. Now it is time to deal with the badgers. As you can see I am a victim of […]
The different Lord razor blade brands.
Lord is an ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 company based in Egypt’s second city, the port of Alexandria. Their 2,200 employees make several billion razor blades a year (and lots […]
The Marketing Powerhouse that was and still is the Gillette Safety Razor Company, part 2
Here is the second in this fascinating series of articles by Matt Pisarcik of Razor Emporium: 1910’s: Wartime Sales & Ladies Shaving As the company moved forward with early success […]
My shaving brush collection
I have written here before about Acquisition Disorders (ADs) and for me the biggest is Shaving Brush Acquisition Disorder (SBAD). This is because there is more variety amongst brushes than […]