What do you think the future of traditional shaving will be?

Hiya guys,

What do you think the future holds for traditional shaving?

More products?

More razor choices and production?

Cost rises?

Will we be able to successfuly pass it along to the next generation?

Is this just a fad?

Will it become too mainstream and no longer be considered neat or unique?

If all the hipsters start doing it to be cool will it take away some of the "coolness" of shaving?

Some points to ponder and interested in what ya'll think

 

mini light sabers.

 

-I feel like there will always be new product offerings. But, I always worry that the companies who make quality DE blades will stop producing them (shavepocalypse). However, that'd be easily solved by taking up SE shaving. It does bother me that some of the best shaving products have dissappeared in our time, such as P.160, Old Spice Soap, Irisch Moos, etc...

-I feel we're currently in a unique period of time when new production razors are hitting the market again. The ease of access to 3D printers will eventually give rise to more community designed/driven models.

-Inflation - probably

-Given how interested my kids are in my shaving routine, I certainly hope I'll be able to pass it on to them

-Not a fad at this point. Unless I'm wrong, I'd imagine there's a fairly high retention rate of new wetshavers

-Doubtful, too much of the population would never ever leave their cartridges/electrics

-Naw, no matter who takes up traditional wetshaving, it'll remain "cool" in my book

 

The true hipsters will start doing it, but most of them are posers. They only think they are hipsters if they wear nerd glasses. I don't consider myself a poser because wet shaving is probably the only old school thing I do. It always got me that goths thought they were being original by dressing in all black and whatnot. They all looked the same to me and they all acted the same.

But I think wet shaving will steadily climb up in the world, but there are still people who will always be enamored by the 5 bladed things because they don't know any better. Then they will wonder why their face looks like a plucked chicken.

 

Interesting points guys.

Well I have seen that we must be a modest group among shavers by going to my local drugstore and seeing all the Niveas, AXEs, Nutrogenas on the top shelves and seeing OS, Auqua Velva, Clubman ect hanging out on the bottom shelf and usualy only 1 or 2 bottles. I wonder when finaly the older generation finaly dies off will the drugstores still sell these products?

 

Let see to stock up for shavepocalypse I will need 7,500 blades considering I use 1 blade per 3 shaves and I shave till Iam 90. The I need at least 124 pucks of soap if I use one puck ever 6 months.

of course this is if I actually plan and have to shave till Iam 90, variables like retirement, job change that isn't so strict on facial hair will greatly reduce the amount I need. So when I retire at 76 and decide I rather grow a beard get ready for a pif of the century...

To answer the OP question, I believe that some of the companies are waking up to the idea that people are going back to the more traditional style of shaving to save money, better quality shave, and better overall experience.

I don't care if hipsters are doing it to be cool, I don't follow most if any trends, I do things simply because I like doing them.

 

I would think as long as the sells justify the shelf space they will keep the items as long as people buy them even after the last generation passes and those of us, that bask in the glory days of quality products, are left.

 

I think all of those things will happen to some effect.
It is definitly "in" to be wetshaving and I have noticed ebay prices have gone up a little bit in the past couple of months. I think a good portion of people switching over are doing it because of cost though. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next year or so.

Maybe I should buy all the vintage razors I see before they are all gone?? Wait...that's just my RAD thinking. Calm down, calm down....woooosahhh

 

I wonder if what happens like gunslinger syas

 

Som,ething went screwy there

I wonder what the big boys will do if they see people are enjoying a better shave old school.

will they come out with next the MACH 105 super turbo jet that actualy makes the sound of a fighter plane with super coated blades of unheard of undiscovered yet metal. Maybe they will claim all you have to do is put it by your face and it will shave you clean in fact it will take 15 years off ya

 

They'll use a metal found in Mars or Antarctica.

 

Since it does not take huge plants to produce the required gear, I have little fear that a shaveapocalypse will occur. Durablade for intance, is run by only two persons...

With internet, it takes so little effort to sell efficiently good shaving soap (Fitjar, Calani, etc...) that the fact that famous brand ceased is simply the result of poor, stuck in the past marketing.

 

I predict that Gillette takes notice that wet shaving is coming back and brings back a DE razor and overly priced blades and of course charges like $100 to gouge the interest in it. They rape on cartridges, they may consider that they need to rape on this little market too to take advantage of the spike in interest.

 

I'm sure they won't make it but outsource it, and it will be made of zamac and not brass.

 

I started in late 2007 and changes have been plenty. Some years ago Michael Hamm said we are in the Golden Age of wet shaving and it feels like it. More vendors, more products, more artisan producers, ease of access to products constantly improving, more information , more forums, blogs , more and more mainstream media interest.

Hoarding for the shave apocalypse, scarcity mentality, the race to the bottom to find the cheapest wet shave possible, fear of the future all seem misplaced. Compared to the recent past there seems plenty to enjoy and much to rejoice in.

The more and more wet shaving grows the more an industry and services to serve it has grown is what I have seen and that benefits vets and newbs , the guy out for a really economical wet shave and hobbyists.

 

First I.M.O. wet shaving isn't a fad, it's always been around only the forms have changed over time.
I also agree with Mike Hamm that this is yet another "Golden Age" for shaving.
"Traditional shaving" has grown and I feel with the help of the internet "spreading the word" it will continue to grow as time passes.
The many advantages of "traditional shaving" will help keep it alive.
Will it become "mainstream"? Probably not to the extent of cartrige shaving. However I.M.O. again with the help of the internet interest "WILL" grow!!
More product choices and higher costs "ABSOLUTELY"!
Can "traditional shavers" pass along these traditions"? I believe and truly "HOPE" they can and will...
As far as more products in "brick and mortor" stores, thats up to us, everytime you go in a grocery,drugstore ask for product.
Example: Walgreens sells Pinaud Clubman Original and Aqua Velva Ice Blue. Next time your in a Walgreens,Walmart,Target,Kmart, CVS or independent drugstore, ask if they will order you some other Pinuad products like Virgin Island BayRum and Vanilla or some Aqua Velva Ice Sport or Lanman and Murry Florida Water anything you can think of. If enough people ask they will eventually listen......"Sqeaky wheel gets the grease"..

 

currious 178 only the forms have changed over time.. could you elaborate a bit in that?

 

Think we're in for some real bad times. Lot less shaving, eating and being warm in the winter.
We'll all be just 'riding that nightmare looking for a dream'.

 

I believe that there will be an increase in the use of soaps/creams/brushes as people discover them and how much better using these items are for you. I don't necessarily think that DE/SE will make a major come back though. With proper prep and using better products, the multiblade abominations can give a nice shave.

 

I think the companies will still produce soaps-creams-after shaves etc,the "field" is still open
In the blades there is no much hope for something new,the quality steel is expensive
In DE's it's difficult to produce something "new" although some companies try on it but the cost is very high
By the way Muhle offered us 2 new Open Combs
The traditional shaving is growing up,more and more members in the forums and buyers in the (e-) stores.

So "back to the tradition" .