The Fashionable Razor and Hair…..

The development of metallurgy lead to shaving with a higher degree of comfort, in around 3,000 BC copper tools were developed and used for shaving, before that sea shells and the sharpened bones of our enemy‘s(kidding); 1901 was considered the ’Golden Age’ for male grooming as the American inventor King Camp Gillette invented the disposable razor, that accompanied soldiers with their guns to the battle field, thus ensuring the timeless smooth-shaven warrior, making beards that could lead to death unconceivable on the battle field and wowing the enemy with our smooth faces. The Gillette razor’s popularity after the war introduced relatively risk-free cosmetic shaving to the soldier’s sweethearts and wives as well. That eventually lead to the very popular bikini wax. Around a centaury latter the advent of the electric razor, That was dubbed the dawn of technological hair removal, at least on a temporary basis. Although plucking and tweezing had offered more lasting effect, it would be science that would create the possibility of permanent hair removal. Soon electricity was introduced and the option of laser hair removal plus waxing has given man the option to be hairy or not. Currently, the average man will shave about 20,000 times between the ages of 15 and 75. That equates to five months.
A recent study by scientists from Medical University of Vienna traced the origins of hair to the common ancestor of mammals, birds and lizards that lived 310 million years ago. According to theory most of us have lost large coverage of hair around 3.3 million years ago. There has been some theory’s that body hair allows an individual to feel air currents better then those without, a sign of manhood, a sign of cleanliness (when shaven), provides a degree of warmth and when grown out protections from the sun or can be used to brake up the out line or provide additional camouflage in times of war. Either way it is what it is and now it is even easier to wear it or shave it, isn't technology grand.