Shower shaving: who knew?
Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 12:04PM By Emery Styron
In your quest for a greener, more efficient lifestyle, may I suggest you consider shower shaving.
A flexible, tubular arm lets you position the Shower Tek mirror as needed and directs a flow of hot water through the enclosure to eliminate fog. A handy rack keeps razors off the shower floor, even pink ones. I became an inadvertent adherent some months back while the sink in my basement bathing area was out of commission. It was either shave in the shower or trek up two flights of stairs to the family bathroom where there’s tough competition for face time with the mirror over the vanity sink. (Life with a wife and two lovely girls is rewarding but it does drive a man to the basement to shave and shower. What is with those 27 plastic bottles in the upstairs shower? What is wrong with ordinary bar soap? Herbal oatmeal body wash!)
I digress. We were talking about shower shaving. The basement sink was sinko, so I took my brush, shaving mug and round mirror with the flexible neck into the shower stall. Once the regular shampoo and shower were done, I wet the brush, stirred up a lather in the mug, applied it to my face and scraped off whiskers, peering into a fogged up, 4-inch diameter mirror perched dangerously on a narrow shelf. The results were rough, but a new habit was born.
The transition was not as silky smooth as a man’s skin in a Gillette commercial. Sometimes there was blood on the floor. I did some fancy dancing when the mirror fell from its shelf toward my toes. Several times I showered, dressed and sat down to breakfast with the uncomfortable feeling of having forgotten something. Only when I rubbed my stubbly chin to ponder, did I remember what.
Shower shaving is something you want to do while you are there. There is no efficiency in getting back in the shower a second time only to shave.