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Getting Lathered Up

So the Personally Speaking in today's blog...we're not actually kidding. Even Quasimodo might attract a few ladies if he lathered up with a brush and shaved with a straight razor (well, and found a good Italian tailor).

The extra secret ingredient to this ritual, speaking of Italy? If you're ever in Florence, boys, get some lavender crema da barba from the Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella. The building itself is amazing, but all of its colognes, soaps, tinctures, and salves are hand-made from local ingredients according to centuries-old formulas.

I suppose to pull it off ourselves (on our legs), we females would need a feather-duster-sized brush and a bucket of shaving cream...hm...not so sexy.

-Jenifer Morgan...off to admire some lathering up...

Posted by: hsnavely on 02/04/2008
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Simon  on February 04, 2008 at 07:02 AM 1
I was surprised to read the ingredients on the "natural" shave gel that I had been using to find that it has parabens in it! I recently switched to all natural, certified organic miessence shaving products, including a shave gel and after shave balm, which I buy online: https://anniesorganics.mionegroup.com:443/category/3/5 They also come in travel sizes, which is very handy: https://anniesorganics.mionegroup.com:443/product/69111 Happy shaving, Simon
CmoreGreen  on February 04, 2008 at 08:18 AM 2
It's all relative... five years shaving huh, save more years(and your plants) by not shaving/shearing your shrubberies. Save that for your topiary obsession... your green friends will thank you for it, and you'll discover neat things your plants may do, like FLOWER... & FRUIT.
Gerry  on February 04, 2008 at 09:05 AM 3
I just buy an electric shaver every 6 or 7 years. No soaps, gels or any other products involved. An hour of electricity each month for recharging the battery.
Suz  on February 04, 2008 at 09:46 AM 4
I had to do the math on this one. My boyfriend spends no more than 15 minutes a day shaving and that works out to be 90 hours or so a year, or 3.75 days per year. If he lives to be a hundred, he'll have spent one year of it shaving. Maybe he should grow a beard...
David  on February 04, 2008 at 10:18 AM 5
I understand the love of a close shave, but after a similar discussion with a friend I took the challenge to grow a beard for the first time in my life. It save time and resources and in all honesty I have primarily had some form of facial hair for almost 6 years now. I challenge the men to give it a month, it's quite a freeing experience.
Aon  on February 04, 2008 at 01:21 PM 6
Another benefit to the brush and soap is not having those aerosol cans that I can't recycle.
Sean  on February 04, 2008 at 01:51 PM 7
The average male spends 5 years of his life shaving?? That would be 2 hours per day, every day for 60 years!!! I think that you may want to check your source on that statistic - you know 76% of statistics are made up on the spot...
Wayne the barefoot handyman  on February 05, 2008 at 12:27 PM 8
I started using pure virgin olive oil years ago to shave with. It makes a razor last longer, feels REALLY good going on and is good for the skin! My wife is Italian so she kinda likes it too....hahaha! You can buy it by the gallon, cook with it, use it for salad dressing and so much more!
Carole  on March 14, 2008 at 03:55 AM 9
I have 3 teenage daughters that shave their legs and it is very hard to find the right thing to buy for them. They think I am harping on when I talk about the dangers in some (most) products on the market, we seem like a freaks when we share our knowledge with our kids! I recently had a girls 'shave and save party' for my daughters and their friends. we looked at different ways to shave and I introduced them all to a Certified Organic Shaving Gel that SAVED them from chemicals (Ha Ha)They liked the smell and the results were outstanding, so now they are hooked. www.cosmeticschemicalfree.com Buy on line, you will never look back.
Erica  on August 04, 2008 at 12:49 PM 10
Here is a tip that will probably be mistaken for bad hygiene; but ladies, my mother never let us shave our legs. She said, "if you don't start shaving your legs, you won't have to continue the chore forever." Being three rather hersuit girls, I realized that it was most important to take care of pits and eyebrows (I was Boris Karloff's daughter, according to my Grandma). My grandma took a straight razor to my unibrow when I was just twelve. Guess what? It never grew back! By the way, I have about thirteen annoying hairs on each leg, I don't even bother,unless I'm not wearing hose, pants or a long skirt. So to you young ladies, DON'T START - you won't have to cry about the pricklies later.

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