The parts of my face that I do shave, I shave every day. If I had to use an actual razor and soap/foam/cream, though, I doubt I would.
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I haven’t shaved in very nearly 50 years (over Xmas vacation 1864-65).
What was Ulysses S. Grant really like? 
I don’t use soap in the shower, I use shower gel and that sucks to shave with. So I have a palmolive shave stick which is basically like a bar of soap. I just rub a bit of that on the face and trim up while in the shower, no mirror, just by touch.
I just get out of the shower and shave with a double blade thingie. No soap or after shave or nuthin’
I do, although I may skip a day on the weekend. I got that from my 1950s era grandfathers and 1960s era father (who now sports a luxuriously huge beard).
I actually find it easier overall; it’s like the scorched-earth approach- all I have to do to look presentable is shave every day and not make my sideburns too uneven.
None of the trimming, shaping, etc… that comes with a beard. I used to have a goatee/van dyke and it drove me crazy.
Not I! cried Senegoid The Slob. I’m in the profoundly blissful situation of neither caring, nor needing to care what anything thinks of me! Although to be sure, I do still shower once every three or four months whether I need it or not. Yes, there’s a reason I call myself Senegoid, and it’s not this one but it could certainly well be!
Just plain hand soap lather on my face is all I use, and disposable razors that last me for a month (assuming I shave about once a week or so).
Time was, for much of my adult life, I used an electric shaver which was easy to do and didn’t require any kind of lube. All I knew about shaving was what I had always seen in men’s shaving cream commercials on TV, which invariably seemed to make shaving into a much more complicated ritual than I ever wanted to deal with.
But electric shavers just never did work very well, especially for long neck hairs, and that miserable abomination of a side-burn trimmer or whatever its called never did work very well at all. I went through several different models of electric shavers. And I learned that the neck hair trimmer, as badly as it worked, got steadily worse as the blade got older and that you can’t replace this blade! – Despite the very helpful efforts of a clerk a Nordstrom’s who made numerous phone calls to vendors and manufacturers while I waited!
So, dashing my shaver to pieces on the floor, I said Fuck Electric Shavers! It’s time I learned to shave like a Real Man As Seen On TV! (I was about 55 at the time.) Having never learned as a youngster from my father (is that just another TV meme?), I called upon one of my few remaining friends at the time and asked him to be my surrogate father and teach me how to shave. He just told me to use plain old hand soap lather. So I tried that, and it works just find thank you and I’ve done it that way even unto this very day. Well, up until yesterday anyway. I didn’t shave today.
I shave my entire head (sans goat (really a Van Dyke, but nobody knows the difference)) every morning in the shower using a Fusion razor and whatever shave gel was on sale.
Man here. I want through the same phases as the OP (used to use shaving cream at the sink, but about fifteen years ago switched to bar soap on the bath or shower) — the only difference being that I generally don’t use a mirror at all.
I have tough whiskers. The keys to a smooth shave, in order if importance, are 1. Letting face soak for at least two full minutes (longer if the water isn’t hot); 2. Hot water if possible, but warm is usually okay (unless the razor is dull); 3. Sharpness of razor blade.
Cecil covered all this years ago in an article about a man re-using his lady friend’s razor.
I’Canned shaving cream, if used right, is the best money per oz/unit/cm/whatever in the world.
I get a can of Barasol at the dollar store and it lasts 2 years!
Once, in my scruffy stage, I had a can nearly rust out before I finished it!
I use Success Medicated Shaving Foam and a Gillette More-Blades-Than-Sense razor. Hot water, over the sink, before a shower. I prefer the sink because I like a nice big mirror and lots of light.
I have an electric trimmer and razor for trimming/shaving parts of me that aren’t my face. I do that in the shower though with lots of hot water and foam.
He is Ulysses S. Grant.
Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb? Nobody!
Hari Seldon is Ulysses S. Grant???
Hari quit shaving in 1865. He may have bumped into USG at a cigar store?
When I was shaving my head, I was in search of the closest (smoothest) shave possible. In a shaving forum I read about salicylic acid. It might be overly drying for face skin, but especially if you have an oily scalp, it works great for the head. I couldn’t get away with using it twice a day; some head shavers use it once a week at the most.
But exfoliating before a shave gives a really smooth result!
Male here. Electric shaver, always.
When I started shaving as a teen, I had pretty bad acne, which would have made using a razor an adventure. I never transitioned away from the shaver, in part because I don’t have a heavy or dark beard, so it’s always worked well for me.
I’ve shaved with a razor (my wife’s razor that she uses for her underarms and legs :eek: ) two or three times over the years, when my electric shaver of the moment had suddenly given up the ghost. Ow ow ow.
In the past, I used commercial shaving cream in an aerosol can. October 11 was the last time. for the last 19 days I have been letting it grow back in. I missed my beard.
have you ever seen them together? Well, have you???
Indeed, and Slug’s illustration was, as usual, completely hilarious. I cannot find it by linking through on my damn cell phone.
Excuse me, 'Toons, but it’s impossible to shave with any of the things in your poll. You need something with a blade. 