I saw the Shaveblog site a while back and decided to try this all out and I’m delighted at the results. I always suspected I was doing the whole shaving thing badly and now I know I was. I stuck with the Merkur razor - despite the non-existent instructions, nearly killed myself with it until I discovered that ‘1’ was the safest setting and ‘6’ was the most dangerous (I started with it on ‘5’). Now I am used to it the Merkur is way better than any other razor I’ve tried, and I can’t go back to paying almost £1 per blade for a Mach 3 when the safety blades are a mere 30p for TWO shaving edges. Make sure you put decent blades in the razor, Merkurs or Swedish Gillettes are good, strangely these blades seem to need ‘wearing in’ and I think I get a better shave after the third one. The whole morning shave is now a far better experience, I use a good badger brush with the Taylors Avocado shave cream and Taylors or Trumpers after shave balms (essential after the shave). Its a great start to the day, very civilised - I feel the public ought to be doffing their caps to me as I promenade with my now almost ceramic complexion.

Cheers.