Have you ever wandered around who started the daily shaking ritual?
Drawings in the caves from the Stone Age show that people of that era pulled hair from their faces. They did not learn to cut their hair until about 30,000 BC, when they used flint for this purpose. The early man also used flint blades to trim the skin, and then placed the colors to create patterns.
About 3000 BC. copper blades were made for cutting hair in both India and Egypt. Over the next few thousand years, many razors were obscure from archaeological excavations. In Denmark, razors with bronze blades and carved handles in leather cases were found. Alexander the Great began the tendency to have short hair and a shaved face. Roman women also began to remove hair from their bodies during this period using creams and drugs, and Roman men shaved every day, usually to the hairdresser, if they did not have a servant. Indian men gently trimmed their facial hair, but with shaving they removed the chest and pubic hair. Indian women removed hair from their legs with tweezers. Some women removed the hair from their legs, put on their lamp. Roman men were recognized by men after the first shave at the age of 21. Julius Caesar removes all his facial hairs with tweezers.
From about 100 AD shaving becomes old-fashioned, and the bearded gaze becomes a “thing”, probably to cover a bad face.
Medieval people thought of large amounts of clothing and hats, and women again removed all types of facial hair every day. Men wore beards for a long time. Schools are being opened that teach people about personal care (cosmetics, hair management, etc.). First in Spain and then in other places. By the end of the crusades, the people became clean again.
Queen Elizabeth keeps a lily-white complexion and removes all hair from eyebrow and forehead areas. The ladies of this day followed this example, but they also wore wigs. Soon after, the men also removed all the hair from their foreheads.
Finally, in the late 1700s, French men realized that they could shave, and French women completely shaved their heads, but were wearing decorative wigs. The first "safety razors" appeared. They were not very safe, but promised to reduce the depth of all the wounded received while shaving! In the early 1800s, English men boasted about having to shave three times a day to maintain the right image. European women still invented hair removal potions - it didn't work!
Over the next hundreds of years, numerous care methods have been provided, including “safety razors” and disposable razors by none other than Gillette (which are still a major player in providing care needs). Then in 1901, a double razor blade was invented by a joint venture between Gillette and Nickerson - and it is still available today. New projects constantly appear until the razor is invented, and then the electric razor. Women did not shave their armpits until a marketing campaign in the United States in 1918, where advertising supported armpit hair both unhygienic and infertile. Col Shick developed a new type of razor in competition with Gillette, and therefore the race for new and better razors was good and real. Shick invented the first dry electric razor, and Phillips from the Netherlands invented the first wet electric razor. Double blades are available, then triple blades and now four-blade disposable razors.
Modern shaving devices are much safer and faster to use than before, but, like the whole fashion, sometimes the tendency to shave will change sometime in the future.
