Sources for the Guide

Leisureguy’s Guide to Gourmet Shaving the Double-Edge Way is a great gift for bar mitzvah, for graduation, for Father’s Day (21 June 2020), for birthdays, … for guys who shave but do not yet enjoy the task.

Here’s one comment from a reader review:

I bought this as a gift for my fiancé, along with a wet-shaving starting kit and a safety razor. He DEVOURED this book, and finds himself reading it again and again. He finally enjoys shaving. This book has helped him figure out so many things about wet shaving, and has recommended it to all of his friends and family. Truly a great source of information for any man.

And here’s a review on Amazon.co.uk, titled “If Sun Tzu had written the Art of Shaving, he would have copied this book directly.”

I purchased this book around 2 months ago, as a complete novice to DE razor shaving, and as a result with a face covered in razor burn and nicks. Having read the book from cover to cover, I am now walking around with a face as smooth as the proverbial bottom, free of my prior irritations and injuries, having now understood and corrected the multitude of errors I had been making.

The depth of the content belies the price, with a combination of technical knowledge and humour delivered in an easy to digest format, with the author touching on concepts as abstract as shaving as a meditation tool, without ever seeming condescending or off topic.

In particular the section on hard water and air temperature affecting one’s shave were things I had never considered as relevant factors to a shave.

This combined with personal anecdotes and experiences, the continued reinforcement of keys points throughout the book, and at times the author’s obvious passion for the experience and ritual of shaving, take what could have been a bland topic and instead create an interesting and informative book which has changed the way I view my daily shave from a chore to a pleasure.

My thanks to the Author for the time taken in writing this book, highly recommended to new and experienced DE shavers alike.

This book is a perfect gift for men who answer “Yes” to “Do you shave most days?” and “No” to “Do you actually enjoy shaving?” Change their life in one small but positive way — and a change whose benefits they enjoy each morning they shave.

Below are links to the Kindle version at all Amazon sites and also links to the print version for those Amazon sites that carry it. Links to reviews will be updated as more reviews appear. The book does have a Facebook page with my Shave of the Day posts and occasional shaving tips. Or you can see these SOTD posts in the blog.

You can view the Table of Contents and read the Prefaces by using Amazon’s “Look Inside” feature, and the table of contents can also be viewed in outline form. (Hover over a bullet and then click the “+” to expand the section or “-” to collapse it.)

Prices have been set low in the hope that the book will be purchased by those still considering whether to switch to DE shaving, rather than postponing the purchase until they’re sure they like DE shaving. The reason for early purchase: the book provides information to help with the initial choices—the various options in choosing a shaving kit and the trade-offs to consider—as well as detailed information make the transition to traditional wetshaving an enjoyable success.

I first started writing the book with the goal of creating the sort of guide that I wish I had had when I resumed wetshaving. Each subsequent edition included more information and reflected a greater understanding, and with this final edition, the seventh, I think I have achieved my goal: this is the very book I would have wanted to have when I first began traditional wetshaving with a double-edge razor.

The book is available from the CreateSpace eStore in addition to the sites listed below.

Reader reviews

• Amazon.com
• Amazon.co.au
• Amazon.co.uk

This current (7th) edition is an extension and refinement of the 6th edition, and so 6th edition reviews do to a great extent apply to the 7th edition.

The independent blog Why I Wet Shave has two posts in which a variety of books on wetshaving are reviewed. I have no connection with the blog and was surprised (but pleased) by the reviews:

Shaving Book Reviews Part 1:  The Good, The Bad, and The Complete Wastes Of Your Money
Shaving Book Reviews Part 2:  Things Start to Look Up

Kindle version

• Amazon.com
• Amazon.ca
• Amazon.co.uk
• Amazon.com.au
• Amazon.de
• Amazon.es
• Amazon.fr
• Amazon.it
• Amazon.nl
• Amazon.co.jp
• Amazon.in
• Amazon.com.br
• Amazon.com.mx

Print version

• Amazon.com
• Amazon.ca
• Amazon.co.uk
• Amazon.de
• Amazon.es
• Amazon.fr
• Amazon.it