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...monthly soap allowance, used daily for hands and weekly for bodies, withers away by the third week of the month. (It is latherless in the withering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: News Between the Lines | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...results the shaving problems of different individuals vary in character, but correct technics benefit all shavers. These include the taking of sufficient time for facial preparation before shaving (two minutes is the minimum time . . . ); shaving with a slanting stroke as far as possible; mixing of a little soap with latherless cream if the latter is the medium preferred by the shaver; shaving with the blade tilted toward the face when the blade is new and/or sharp to make a smaller angle with the skin and thus to minimize skin irritation. This technic is admittedly difficult to combine with a slanting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 9, 1935 | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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