How about growing a beard, that is what my husband did.
 
Mary

For the past forty odd years I had always used a wet shaver and with lather produced by a shaving  brush, however about a year ago I substituted  olive oil  for the  soap lather. The result was amazing, I can now draw the razor over my skin  as  many times  as I need to remove all the whiskers, whereas previously more than once would result in a rash. I get a much closer shave and my  skin  is smooth and soft.

I use oil that I have infused with rosemary  which is a very pleasant  smell  compared to  chemical aftershave lotions.

My husband was already gainfully employed for 25+ years before he grew his beard and he's not had any sort of backlash at his office. If anything, he's treated with more respect, as if he's truely an "Elder Guru" in the computer industry (before, he had such a cute babyface with dimple, that people thought he was 10-15 years younger!).

We both inherited the razors and lathering soaps and brushes that my grandfather and his father (both men born in 1905) had used. I suppose I could clean them up very well and buy new blades but I suspect there'd still be too much of their DNA to seriously consider using them if my husband did ever think about shaving again (he's been about 8 years with the beard now and he still loves it. So do I.).

Was curious if the methods would work for women wetshaving legs in the bathtubs? I usually get bumps and nicks no matter what kind of system I use and so now my main system is just wait until it's Gorilla Length hair and give up and whack it down with whatever blade I have that won't attack me first.... ;-)

Doubtless need to get my own brush and razor though....

The rosemary in olive oil sounds WONDERFUL!!

Thanks!

I have been shaving this way for 5 years, and I can say that it is much cheaper in the long run. It is expensive up front, but afterwards it is relatively cheap to continue. The biggest expense I had was a $400 brush from Plisson (horn brush w/ high mountain badger hair). In the 5 years I've had the brush, only a few hairs have fallen out and it is still very soft. I hope to get atleast another 5 years out of it, maybe 10.

The big savings is going to be in the soap, which could last you close to a year per refill (depending on how often you shave).

You probably will still need to buy blades like you may do now. The art of shaving, for example, uses either gillette mach-3 blades or gillette fusion blades.

I often shave at the end of a hot shower;my beard is soft at that point."Kiss My Face" brand soap works very well for lather(its' full of olive oil).It's also good for your skin.Sometimes I use an electric shaver.Neither one irritates my skin.

I've tried both wet shaves and electric over the past fifty years.  The wet shave will get you a somewhat closer shave, if that is important to you.  It will also get you an occasional ding--which calls for stypic pencil repair at the least.

The electric ultimately wins hands-down now for me. A two-hour charge lasts me a couple of weeks.  No need for a basin, water, or even a mirror.  Preshave lotions are available but unnecessary..  Complete portability is a major advantage--one can even shave in a moving automobile.  Snap the head off and clean the innards with an old toothbrush every few weeks.  As an earlier chap said, replace the cutter heads or even the whole mechanism every six to eight years.  That's it.

Ladies:  Try this, it is popular in the middle east.
(you will need a candy thermometer)
Combine: 2 cups white sugar, 1/4 cup of water, 1/4 cup of freshly squeezed lemon juice. 
Stirring frequently, heat this combination to 250 degrees, and hold it there for 30 seconds. 
Allow it to cool to 100 degrees.  Spread the mixture in 1" X 5" rectangles on the area, and take a cotton strip (from an old t-shirt).  Rub this on top for about 10 seconds, and peel it off like a bandaide.  Voila! 
Natural hair removal!

I invested in a really good electric shaver and very much enjoy it...  It's a Norelco Spectra 8894 XL...  It just glides over my face with ease...  It is very effective and efficient, leaves no ingrown hairs, doesn't irritate skin, and provides a very close shave...  I would highly recommend it...

Proper wet shaving reinvigorates and relaxes very good. The best shaving soap I've ever used is the L'Occitane product, totally nonallergenic, very economical with pleasant juniper based Cade fragrance. For travels they (L'Occitane) make great shaving oil which doesn't require brush.

The line of products is completed with after shave oils and tubed cream.

Few lines of products from Crabtree & Evelyn are also of very good quality. C&T provides also the line of good shaving brushes.

Edwin Jagger best badger shaving brushes is my choice for reasonably priced good  quality product. If somebody prefers using brush during traveling Jagger offers few good travel brushes of smaller size packed in the metal tube.

I've used an aloe vera moisturizing gel( 98%) by JASON for several months to shave with.  Works great and is great for my skin too.

Soap tends to clog skin pores and create more problems than it solves.  This applies to bathing and washing your scalp & head of hair

as well.  I do not use soap to shower just a washcloth and chlorine filtered water - skin gets clean and I feel better in it !  Occasionally,

I will use a conditioner( Burt's Bees ) on my hair to reduce oiliness.  Seems like everytime Man takes an unnatural solution he pays

dearly for it.

Golly gee! I wish I saw this before I got a new electric razor. My Norelco that I've had for 8 years died (God bless it) and I got some hight tech quintuple blade razors at the drug store. Jeepers, I cut my face like there was no tamarrah. I got a new Norelco after the Christmas sale. Well, it works.

I shave with baby shampoo...  It has few chemicals and has a balanced PH.  Just use a big glob and spread it around on your wet face.