A shaving manual from 1906

[bald as]

https://archive.org/stream/shavingmadeeasyw0020th#page/n5/mode/2up

 

[Mark1966]

NOW I see the problem.

Looking forward to the day that all the 'experts' on YouTube are appropriately attired in a waistcoat with pocket watch - then I might start following their advice

 

[khun_diddy]

Did they bloom the soap back in those days?

 

[bald as]

Fair go they were men. It's not a flower show

@Mark I have had my shaving suit for years and the waist coat is getting bigger each year as well.

 

[bald as]

Note to self. @khun_diddy has prompted a memory of the dried out Palmolive bar in the "shave bowl" covered with hot water trying to kid it back to life..

 

[borked]

There recently was a shaving clip of just that on utube.
Unable to find it now