Shaving

[Loppan Torkel]

Electric. It's good enough and I'm too lazy to use a razor every morning.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Olive oil is pretty thick. Is there a risk of olive oil getting into pores and clogging them severely? Maybe causing an ingrown hair?

Olive oil does not clog pores, at least for the vast majority of the population. It is more likely to clog pores than castor oil or jojoba oil, but much less than any other oil you are likely to have around your kitchen.

Often it can help unclog pores, by dissolving the sebum that does most of the clogging.

I've heard that the best way to unclog pores is to use castor oil mixed with olive oil, adjusting the radio based on how naturally oily your skin is. Castor oil by itself can pull the natural oils out of your skin so effectively that it leaves the skin too dry. The skin needs some oil to be healthy, and the sebaceous glands tend to overcompensate whenever it is not oily enough. Olive oil gives the skin just enough lubrication to prevent this form happening.

I haven't heard anything about olive oil contributing to ingrown hairs. I have read that the risk of ingrown hair can be reduced by exfoliating, and that a mixture of olive oil with either sugar or salt makes a very good exfoliant.


Olive oil has been used in skin care routines for about 3000 years. The ancient Greeks and Romans considered extra virgin olive oil (which is richer in the antioxidants which keep the skin looking young) to be so valuable for facial skin care that they would not waste it on cooking or burning, where cheaper oil would suffice.

 

[Kyriakos]

I am not sure i have heard of olive oil being used for shaving before. Afaik in the older days people used soap, or before that just water. Olive oil is quite dangerous for a shave i would think, but even if it is not it surely is rather unpleasant to place on your face.

People did use to put olive oil in their hair, though, which can look quite good as some sort of hairgel-substitute (provided one has quite thick hair, obviously).

 

[Darkflight]

I shave with a Gilette Mach 3 or whatever it's called and shaving gel. I only shave every 3 weeks or so on average though, and I keep a goatee most of the time.