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You might have guessed that razors have been around for a while, possibly from reading our other articles. But they&#;ve been around for a really long time.
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Since the Stone Age we have reliable evidence that people have been shaving, so roughly the last 100,000 years, give or take a millennia or 2. During this period the planet was going through some pretty bad temperature drops, which we colloquially know as &#;Ice Ages&#;, a bit chilly then. Facial hair in that time was actually a bit problematic: wet hair from rain and snow would freeze against the skin, causing some pretty bad frostbite in an age without any medicine, which would most likely prove fatal.
So how do you prevent this? Get rid of it. And they had some gnarly ways of doing it: early on they just pulled the hair out with seashells used as tweezers (can you imagine how much that would sting?). After realising that this was pretty painful they took the next step and started using flakes of obsidian and shell shards to shave &#;properly&#;, and this worked for a good 90,000 years or so. You would think a decent brush and bowl would have been appreciated! Amazingly, the earliest depilatory creams, something we thought would have only been around the past few decades, were made around BC, from arsenic, quicklime and starch.
Egyptians were the next lot to improve on this method, and they had pretty good reasons. They shaved to appear and be clean, bathing several times daily and shaving their entire bodies. Egypt is pretty hot, especially around the Nile delta, so long hair would have been intolerable. And living in these newfangled &#;communities&#; and &#;towns&#; pests like head-lice were a bit of a nuisance, so going bare hair made even more sense!
Egyptians managed this necessary look through using circular and hatchet-shaped &#;rotary&#; bladed razors and depilatory creams. On top of this they used pumice stones to remove all traces of stubble. The Dark Stag Shaving Brush lifts hairs so you can ensure to get the closest shave possible!
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