I used disposable razors for years, and thought they were ok.
Then a friend gave me his Sensor Excel. I discovered I’d been scraping and cutting the hair off my face all those years, when I could have been gently, smoothy gliding the hair off my face.
I haven’t upgraded to the Mach III yet, don’t know if it’s a vast improvement over what I have, but I never want to go back to disposables. For me there is a remarkable difference. It’s like shaving dry & no shaving cream vs. shaving with a hot moist towel & shaving cream.
Years ago I spent 5 weeks hiking in the Mt. Everest area in Nepal. It was winter and the rivers we came to were way too cold to bathe in. So the girl I was with and I never washed or even changed our clothes the whole time. (We didn’t have sex, but it wasn’t because she smelled. I had just met her in Kathmandu and was just looking for a trekking partner. She was a real “Butterface”, anyway).We did wash our hands before eating and this was very painful because the water was so cold. We stayed with local families who I’m sure weren’t bathing either, but I don’t remember thinking that everyone smelled bad. There didn’t seem to be any odor at all.
I do remember some people looking our way in the hotel when we finally got back to civilization. Maybe they smelled something we didn’t.
Bah. Invest the money in a good old-fashioned safety razor, and you can buy the double-edged blades for 10 for a dollar. Shave is just as good as with the new-fangled gadgets, without the expense. Or you could shell out for a straight razor, strop, and hone, and never buy blades again, and at the prices they charge for the fancy “shaving systems” you’d come out ahead after only a few years.
This book, which I read a few years ago, stated that at the turn of the last millenium, people were taller, stronger, healthier and had better teeth than those at the turn of the last century. No sugar to speak of, healthy diet, lots of exercise…sounds like a spa, doesn’t it? So there wouldn’t have been the smell of rotting teeth on people’s breath anyway. And I vaguely remember hearing once that if you eat a lot of meat (which these people did not), you smell more strongly than if you eat a diet based on grains, fruits and vegetables.
A book given to me by tavalla recently said that it was very common in the Middle Ages to 1700’s for poor/vagrants/homeless to sleep in compost piles or manure heaps, and that their smell as a result was so horrifying that they could, in some cases, be attacked and killed by villagers. If true, it says that even back in the time of no baths and no deodorants there were limits…