History of Wet-Shaving
Unique Razors: The Stahly and Rolls Safety Razors
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The Stahly “Live Blade” Razor The Stahly “Live Blade” razor was invented by P. G. Stahly from Indiana. What made this razor unique is that the razor head vibrate. While there were other razors with a vibrating head produced, the Stahly is probably the best-known. Production of the razor started in the 1940s and ended in the 1970s. The Stahly was among the fist DE razors to offer a vibrating head. The reason for the vibrating head was to reduce the blade’s tendency to catch dry spots and skin irregularities. Stahly made no claims that the vibration of...
Schick Razors: A Brief History
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Shaving (Her)story: A Brief Reflection On The History Of Women And Shaving.
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Evidence of female hair removal can be traced to the stone ages and ancient Egypt/Rome. Depilatories, beeswax, and shells were used to remove hair primarily for purposes relative to cleanliness (Cerini, 2020). Other ancient societies correlated the appearance of smooth skin with symbols of status and purity (Cerini, 2020). Even Darwin is cited as associating body hair with primitive ancestry and a lack in evolutional development; theorizing that a smaller amount of body hair is derived from notions of evolutional superiority (Cerini, 2020). What a tangled hairy web we weave, Darwin.
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Star Safety Razor, a Kampfe Brother’s Innovation
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It’s quite possible you have not heard about Frederick, Richard, and Otto Kampfe despite their innovations and success in the shaving industry. The three brothers immigrated to the United States from Saxony Germany. The two youngest brothers immigrated in 1872, shortly after the end of the Franco-Prussian war. It is not known when the oldest brother, Frederick, immigrated to the United States. It’s possible that at the time the brother immigrated that they had already spent several years as apprentice cutlers in Germany. After coming to the United States, they settled in New York City and started a cutlery business.
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Burma-Shave: A History
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If you have been around the hobby for a little bit, or searched eBay for vintage shaving gear, it’s quite possible you have come across a shaving puck of Burma-Shave, or a mug with the logo on it. With what one finds on eBay, it would make sense that the original Burma-Shave product was a traditional shave soap that employed a brush to create a lather. That could not be further from the truth.