{"id":121061819,"date":"2012-04-09T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madsno.posterous.com\/plages-du-med-razor-burn-og-irritert-hud-ette"},"modified":"2014-08-06T14:49:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T14:49:48","slug":"razorburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/razorburn\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you get razor burn and irritated skin? Try a straight razor!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recommend most warmly to try straight razor shaving. It takes some time to get the technique (about a month), but once you get the hang of it, you get an incredibly comfortable shave. This type of shaving gives me much less irritation to the skin, and I can go over the same area several times without creating razor burn.<!--more--> I normally take three passes. 1: down with the grain, 2: side- to side, 3: up against the grain. Many believe one should not shave upwards against the hair growth (against the grain), but my experience is that it is only this that give a real smooth shave.<\/p>\n<p>Preparation and lathering is done in the same way as when using a regular razor, except that a straight razor tend to &#8220;like&#8221; a little wetter lather and razors &#8220;likes&#8221; a little drier lather.\u00a0If you want to learn more about different straight razors, I recommend spending some time on forums like straightrazorplace.com, badgerandblade.com, shavemyface.com,\u00a0artisanshaving.org, and if you are Norwegian (like me): barbershop.no<\/p>\n<p>A quality knife will last a lifetime if treated nicely. When it loses the &#8220;bite&#8221; you can hone it up yourself, or send it in to be honed by a professional. And of course \u2013 you have to use a strop before each shave.<\/p>\n<p>When I started out honing my own straight razors, I used a Norton waterstone with 4000 grit on one side and 8000 grit on the other, but lately i tend to only use natural stonel, such as Ardennes Coticule, Welsh Dragons tounge, and Japanese Nakayame . I think these stones give the smoothest edge.<\/p>\n<p>In these pictures I use the Norton on my Bismarck (the one with the black handle) and a couple of others. Note: If you intend to try this yourself, I suggest you first go to You Tube and do a search on &#8220;straight razor sharpening&#8221; and &#8220;straight razor stropping&#8221;. There are lots of videos on this subject.<\/p>\n<p>You can start with this video by Lynn Abrams, where he uses a &#8220;circle technique&#8221; on a Norton 4000\/8000:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JPYmfyw-5WU?wmode=transparent\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JPYmfyw-5WU?wmode=transparent<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"p_embed p_image_embed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/photo_17_42_35_08-04-12-scaled1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/photo_17_42_35_08-04-12-scaled1000.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"Photo_17_42_35_08\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/photo_17_43_02_08-04-12-scaled1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/photo_17_43_02_08-04-12-scaled1000.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"Photo_17_43_02_08\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bilde1-scaled1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-175764457\" src=\"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bilde1-scaled1000-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Coticule stone\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bilde1-scaled1000-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bilde1-scaled1000-624x468.jpg 624w, http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bilde1-scaled1000.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeg anbefaler p? det varmeste ? pr?ve kniv-barbering. Det tar litt tid ? f? inn teknikken (regn med en m?ned), men n?r du f?rst f?r taket p? det, er det en utrolig behagelig barbering. Denne type barbering gir mye mindre irritasjoner i h&#8230; <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/razorburn\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,5,2,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121061819"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121061819"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121061819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175764890,"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121061819\/revisions\/175764890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121061819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121061819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madsno.com\/shaveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121061819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}