Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — Shaving With Vaseline. [ARTICLE]

Shaving With Vaseline.

Globe-Democrat A friend of mine a few months ago told me how to shave easily and painlessly, and I have never shaved in a barber's shop since. The plan is to use oil or greass instead of soap to prepare the chin and soften the beard. Vaseline is the most convenient, and it should be rubbed in quite freely. Then with a keen razor shaving can be done quickly and without a suspicion of pain. At first I couldn’t reconcile myself to doing without the orthodox lather and used soap after the vaseline had been applied. But the soap is real’y unnecessary, and shaving with oil or vaseline is cleaner, as well as pleasanter, and what is more to the point, there Is no trrita* tion whatever to the skin.