{"id":2408,"date":"2006-02-11T21:59:38","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T02:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/11\/the-week-of-shaving-carefully\/"},"modified":"2006-02-11T23:18:06","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T04:18:06","slug":"the-week-of-shaving-carefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/11\/the-week-of-shaving-carefully\/","title":{"rendered":"The week of shaving carefully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So how did my first week of shaving with a plain safety razor go? Pretty well, I think.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve discovered that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weleda.com\/\">Weleda<\/a> shaving cream and after-shave balm work well for me. They have a muted, natural scent, and are very soothing.<\/p>\n<p>What didn&#8217;t work for me was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lushcanada.com\/\">Lush<\/a> Prince shaving cream. This heavy, waxy preparation clogs up the blade, it smells too strongly of neroli, and is a horror to rinse off. I also cut myself the only time I used it. Styptic pencil owies resulted.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine has remarked on the closer shave (I suspect &#8216;cos I&#8217;m spending more time on it). It&#8217;s strange, but the stubble seems sharper. I wonder if multiple blades smoothed the razor-cut ends of the hairs, and thus gave an impression of a smoother, longer-lasting shave?<\/p>\n<p>I like my Merkur. Using it for a year will end up cheaper than any cartridge razor, and result in far less trash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So how did my first week of shaving with a plain safety razor go? Pretty well, I think. I&#8217;ve discovered that Weleda shaving cream and after-shave balm work well for me. They have a muted, natural scent, and are very soothing. What didn&#8217;t work for me was Lush Prince shaving cream. This heavy, waxy preparation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[705,1200,85,481,874,422,871,170,213,650,150,1121,301,714,677,593,1294,365,796,1071,184,771],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-art","tag-canada","tag-car","tag-cat","tag-catherine","tag-cheap","tag-cover","tag-eek","tag-harper","tag-ink","tag-led","tag-long","tag-moot","tag-mute","tag-owies","tag-pen","tag-pencil","tag-red","tag-smell","tag-tim","tag-time","tag-trash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-CQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}