r/ShavingScience

521 archived posts · Dec 2014 – Sep 2026

Shaving Science

r/ShavingScience

**A science-ish, consumer advocacy, brand agnostic, shaving forum** for sharing "best of" links to threads/articles/resources, plus with its own focused discussions, projects, and references. All content hosted here is redistributable and adaptable under the "No rights reserved" Creative Commons [**CC0 license**](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode). A link or text attribution to /r/ShavingScience is generally requested, but not required.

Created Dec 1, 2014

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521Archived posts

A science-ish, consumer advocacy, brand agnostic, shaving forum for sharing links to "best of" threads/articles, plus with its own articles, discussions, research, and references.

“Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.” — Richard P. Feynman

Topic pages:

Blades
[Business and Marketing] (http://www.reddit.com/r/ShavingScience/search?q=flair%3A%27Business%27&sort=new&restrict_sr=on)
General
History
Manufacturing
Razors
Recipes
Shaving "Software"
Skin and Beard
Technique
Terminology

Upvote links/threads/posts that you agree with and/or would recommend that others read.

Please reserve Downvotes for completely-unscientific, off-topic, SPAM, NSFW (not safe for work), or malicious content.

What this forum is for:

Links to science(-ish) articles in shaving forums, blogs, or resources
Discussions on shaving-related theories
Questions (for which you are seeking scientific-ish answers)
Projects aimed at collecting and presenting shaving related data
Sharing shaving recipes/designs or findings from experiments

What this forum is NOT:

A replacement for general shaving forums (see recommended forums below)
Posting manufacturer or vendor compliments or complaints (unless in the context of a customer satisfaction survey)
Identifications or appraisals of individual vintage razors
A place to market or review products in a non-scientific manner
A place for NSFW (not safe for work) content

Unscientific, off-topic, SPAM, NSFW (not safe for work), or malicious content posts will usually be deleted.

All content hosted here is redistributable and adaptable under the "No rights reserved" Creative Commons CC0 license. A link or text attribution to r/ShavingScience is generally requested, but not required.

Recommended general shaving forums:

Other related forums:

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