Old-fashioned straight razor shaving is in a bind: business is too good. Straight razor sales are on the upswing globally, and the industry can barely keep up with demand. “[About ten years ago,] we ...

Dear Collector: I purchased this Rolls razor new in the late 1930s. I would appreciate your opinion as to its value. Containing a stone, strop, razor handle and two blades within its own case, the ...

James N. P. O’Brien, co-founder and president of ShaveFace, a Nashville, Tenn.-based company that makes shaving strops for disposable razors. When a friend told O’Brien that disposable blades could be ...

MONTREAL – For most guys, shaving is a tedious but unavoidable morning chore, a quick up-and-down with a disposable razor or an electric shaver. At Emporium Barbershop on an out-of-the-way corner of ...

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