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beard

How to use a beard trimmer for styling

beard

How to use a beard trimmer for styling

There’s nothing like a carefully groomed beard for sharpening your style. A little well-tended face fuzz can be totally transformative from head to...

facial hair

How to use shaving soap

If you’re looking to experience a more traditional wet shave, picking up a pot of shaving soap is a good place to start. These soaps were first int...

beard

How to get a clean shave: our top tips

What does clean-shaven mean? It’s obvious isn’t it? The goal is a clean shave. This means no stubble or beard and the smoothest, closest shave pos...

best shave

5 ways to style & shave your moustache

If you’re considering growing your moustache but are unsure on which style to go for or how you’d even go about shaving it, you’re in the right pla...

electric shaver

How to shave your balls: shaving tips for men

Shaving your balls can be daunting. Thoughts of slipping razors or painful nicks may be racing through your head. Luckily, shaving your two compani...

best shave

How to apply shaving cream: our ultimate guide

A humble can of shaving cream is a pretty nifty invention. Use it to glide your razor across your skin. Alternatively, TikTok demonstrates that it ...

electric shaver

How to clean & maintain your electric beard trimmer

It may seem harmless to reuse your beard trimmer again and again without cleaning it. But what you’re forgetting is that with repeated use, your tr...

best shave

Top Tips & Advice on How to Use Shaving Gel

Shaving gel is this season’s must-have shaving accessory. In fact, it’s every season’s must-have shaving accessory. When it comes to a successful ...

The UK Bathroom Habits Survey: grime, good hygiene and grooming to land love

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The Best Safety Razors for Beginners

So you want a closer shave, eh? Reckon you can do it just like your barber does? Well of course you can… But before you get carried away and go...

safety razor

How to Shave with a Safety Razor

Do you ever get an urge to live life on the edge? Do you fancy running off to become a pirate on the high seas? Oooh…how about lion-taming? Or mayb...

electric shaver

Dry Shaving vs. Wet Shaving: What you need to know

The washing machine, the automobile, the PlayStation…OK, maybe not that last one, but generally, technology saves us hours and hours each day. One ...

irritation

The Best Shaving Razors for Sensitive Skin

Oof! Argh! Ouch! Cuts, razor burn, razor bumps…Shaving sensitive skin is no fun. And the threat of soreness, itching, dry skin, bleeding or even ac...

sensitive skin

Tips for Shaving Sensitive Skin

One minute it’s all snuggled up under a blanket of lovely smooth hair…The next minute it’s had that blanket ripped off and it’s left all cold and l...

back

How To Shave Your Back: A Guide

Certain questions have puzzled the human race’s finest minds for thousands of years. How did the Ancient Egyptians build the Pyramids? Why did hom...

irritation

How To Avoid & Get Rid Of Shaving Rash or Burn

After just a few swift strokes, you smile at yourself in the mirror, with an eyebrow slightly arched. You put your razor back in its holder with al...

coarse

Does Shaving Make Hair Thicker Or Grow Back Faster?

For something that billions of us do every day, there are plenty of myths around shaving. While we’re not averse to adding a little extra mystique ...

sensitive skin

What Is The Best Shaving Cream To Use For Sensitive Skin?

Shaving sensitive skin can be a real pain, leaving your skin irritated, bumpy and inflamed. But no need to panic, there are plenty of great product...

shave cream

Shaving Soap vs Shaving Cream vs Shaving Gel: What is best for you?

With many men taking a much more active interest in their grooming routines, and indulging a bit more in small acts of self-care, we’re paying more...

safety razor

The Best Shaving Cream To Use With Your Safety Razor

A safety razor, or a double-edged razor as it is often called, is a tool which never goes out of style! It features a protective device between the...

shave cream

Shaving Cream Alternatives: What Can You Use Instead?

For many of us, shaving cream is a staple product on our shopping list or in our toiletries cupboards. We love how soft and fresh our skin feels af...

shower

Should You Shave Before Or After Showering?

For many of us, showering and shaving are two of the crucial components of our personal care routines. But what order should you do each of these i...

shave balm

What Is Post-Shave Balm And How To Use It

In recent years, as more and more men have discovered the importance of good skincare, we’ve been shining more of a spotlight on the post-shave rou...

blade Care

How To Clean A Razor Head And Razor Blades

Like anything that’s been expertly designed and precision engineered, Wilkinson Sword’s razors work best when they’re properly maintained. Keeping ...

best shave

What Is The Best Wet Shave Razor For A Smooth Shave?

Recently, people seem less keen on the normal hurried dry shave with shaver, and the classic wet shave might be returning to our grooming routines....

stubble

What Is The Best Stubble Length For Your Face Shape?

Want to experiment with your facial hair but unsure what style will suit you? Knowing your face shape is a great start when picking a stubble style...

neckline

How To Shave Your Neck: Which Direction Is Best?

Your neck is pretty sensitive, and it’s common for shaving it to cause some difficulties. Whether it’s ingrown hairs, nicks and cuts, soreness or d...

beard

What Is The Best Razor For A Tough, Coarse & Thick Beard?

A thick, wiry beard; on some days it might make you feel like an invincible viking warrior, but on others it seems like a rather wretched afflictio...

spots

Why You Get Spots When You Shave And How To Avoid Them

We’ve all been there. Satisfied that you’ve lovingly removed every hair from your face — even the ones in that pesky awkward spot behind your jaw —...

sideburns

How To Shave And Trim Your Sideburns

It’s a question that’s puzzled the greatest minds in shaving for generations. It’s prompted hours of fierce debate at Wilkinson Sword HQ. And even ...

goatee

How to Trim, Shave & Shape the Perfect Goatee

Ah, the goatee. It’s never quite in or out of fashion, is it? Every Hollywood A-lister from DiCaprio, to Hardy, to Travolta has sported one at some...

neckline

How to Trim, Shave and Shape your Beard Neckline

There’s no feeling quite like growing a beard. And we say that as people who really love shaving. But when you’re carefully cultivating a faceful o...

electric shaver

How To Shave With An Electric Razor

It’s all a matter of taste, isn’t it? Some people prefer to clean their teeth with a plain old-fashioned toothbrush, while others prefer a fancy di...

eco

How To Dispose & Recycle Razor Blades Safely

We’ve come a long way from the days of the cut throat razor. From safety razors to Ultra Glide blades, our centuries of innovation have made shavin...

eco

Eco Friendly Razors: A Guide

Over the last decade or so, most of us have arrived at something you could comfortably call eco-conscious. You’ve only got to walk down the high st...

ingrown hairs

Shaving Myths Debunked

At Wilkinson Sword, we know shaving. But then so do you, right? After all, we spend days, week, even months of enough our lives running a razor acr...

blade Care

How To Make Your Razor Blades Last Longer & How Often To Change Them

We take pride in the fact that there’s no such thing as an unreliable razor from Wilkinson Sword. Whether you opt for a game-changing innovation li...

beard

How To Grow And Style A Short Boxed Beard

A boxed beard is a classic style, popular among men with a wide range of personal styles, from plaid-shirt wearing hipsters to neat and tidy busine...

beard

The Scruff Beard Look: What Is It & How To Style It

The scruff beard is a very popular facial hair style, chosen by fashionable men all over the world. But how can you achieve it and become one of th...

Chest Hair

How To Shave Your Chest Hair: The Ultimate Guide for Men

At Wilkinson Sword, we’re passionate advocates for the idea that there’s nothing wrong with body hair, in fact we encourage you to show your body h...

electric shaver

Electric Shaver vs Razor: Which Is Better For Facial Hair?

In the last few decades, the art of shaving has produced a thriving market with a huge range of products available. Sometimes, walking down an aisl...

grooming

The Most Popular Male Grooming Questions You’re Too Afraid To Ask Out Loud

We’ve analysed Google data to uncover the male grooming questions that most people search for – and, as experts in all things razors, blades, and s...

armpit

Should Men Shave Their Armpits?

Is it common for men to shave their armpits? In general, it is clearly far more common for women to shave their armpits than it is for men. However...

chin strap

How to Shave Your Chin Strap Beard

What is a chin strap? A chin strap is a classic beard style initially popularised in the Victorian era but which is back in vogue today. A chin str...

facial hair

How Often Should You Shave Your Facial Hair?

Every face is unique, so it makes sense that every shaving routine should be unique too. That means there’s no totally definitive answer to the que...

skin reset

How the Hydro Comfort Skin Reset can Transform Your Shave

We’re not shaving like we used to. It’s a constantly evolving art, and at Wilkinson Sword we’re continuing to push the boundaries of innovation in ...

cut throat

How to Use a Cut Throat Razor on Yourself

Everyone knows that getting back to basics is good for the soul. Camping under the stars on a summer’s night, practising ancient yoga techniques in...

armpit

How to Get Rid of Ingrown Hairs: From Bikini Line to Armpits

Nothing takes the post-shave spring out of your step like an ingrown hair. It’s not until a pesky little strand starts to burrow the wrong way unde...

How to Get Rid of Beard Dandruff

You can’t move for facial fuzz in the UK. Where beards were once the preserve of slightly embarrassing dads who wore socks and sandals at the same ...

eco

Grooming Tips for the Eco-Conscious Man

It’s taken us a long time to get into good habits, but over the last few years it’s safe to say that we’ve allowed environmental awareness into mor...