Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1917 — Origin of Razors. [ARTICLE]

Origin of Razors.

It was not until the early part of the eighteenth century that razors were made of steel blades. The men in the middle centuries resorted to pumice stone, with which, to use the words of Mr. Pepys, they went through the process of "trimming their skins.”