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Mustache styles and trends for 2024! – The best Mustache! How to grow a mustache !

Mustache styles and trends for 2024! – The best Mustache! How to grow a mustache !

Mustache style and trends are tricky to predict, they don't change every year but are impacted more by fashion trends. They differ by region...we have updated this blog with prediction for 2024 but lets see what happens!

Iron age Celtics had the first recorded shaved mustaches, in about 1000 BC, according to Siculus (60 BC), an ancient Greek historian:

“The Gauls (Celtics) are tall of body with rippling muscles...always washing their hair in limewater and they pull it back from the forehead to the nape of the neck...their hair makes it so heavy and coarse that it differs in no...


What is a Luxury Safety Razor? What is the Best Safety Razor?

What is a Luxury Safety Razor? What is the Best Safety Razor?

A luxury mens shaver, also called a luxury mens razor are the best razors you can buy. They are also the most expensive safety razors you can buy on the market. These premium safety razors are the highest quality single edge shavers you can purchase. Luxury is defined by the Oxford dictionary as a “a condition of abundance or great ease and comfort”, Merriam dictionary adds  “...adding pleasure or comfort but not absolutely necessary”.

Why use a shaving brush? What shaving brush to buy?

Why use a shaving brush? What shaving brush to buy?

History of the Shaving Brush

The brush is one of humanities earliest tool, from sweeping out our caves with a branch to the earliest known paintbrushes from the Paleolithic period (2.5 million years ago), the brush hasn’t changed much. The earliest known use of the mainstream shaving brush or shave brush we know today is possibly traced to France in the mid 1700 for the French aristocracy. The French actually call a shaving brush a "blaireau" or "badger" in English. These early designs were often made from exotic materials to cater to the elite who used...


Men's shaving for sensitive skin - Reducing shave burn, shaving irritation and razor bumps

Men's shaving for sensitive skin - Reducing shave burn, shaving irritation and razor bumps

Shaving with Sensitive Skin Introduction

Shaving bumps, irritation and razor burn in men with sensitive skin can be caused by hair being trapped under the skin. As the hair grows, it is trapped by the skin and grows inwards creating razor bumps, ingrown hairs and shaving irritation. It is common with curly hair. When the hair regrows and breaks the surface, it curls and then grows into the skin. Another reason for getting irritation or razor bumps could be caused by the wrong technique for example shaving against the grain first. I hope my solutions below...


Titanium Damascus Safety Razors – "Damtanium"

Titanium Damascus Safety Razors – "Damtanium"

What is Titanium Damascus?

We use a Titanium Damascus that is called Damtanium for our safety razors, it is made of 2 different grades of titanium, grade 2 titanium, and grade 5 titanium. Using a process similar to how we have our Stainless Damascus forged, layers of alternating titanium grades are fused and forged together with pressure and heat. Forging temperatures reach about 1500 degrees F...interesting but our Titanium is forged with higher pressures and lower temperatures then Damascus steel. The temperature, like with Mokume forging needs to be very carefully controlled.

Grade 2 titanium is considered “commercially pure” Titanium...