{"id":35762,"date":"2017-06-18T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T07:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.booksy.com\/?p=35762"},"modified":"2023-03-15T09:46:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T08:46:48","slug":"the-cutting-edge-the-history-of-shaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.booksy.com\/us\/barbers\/the-cutting-edge-the-history-of-shaving\/","title":{"rendered":"The cutting edge: the history of shaving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The history of shaving is almost as old as mankind. It appears that, from the start, people have wanted to remove their unwanted hair from their highly hairy bodies. It\u2019s true \u2013 even the Flintstones wanted a clean shave from time to time. Just like any beauty ritual \u2013 shaving has evolved throughout the eras. In this series of articles, we\u2019ll try to briefly (very briefly) tell you something about how our ancestors removed their hair. Sound boring? Wrong!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_87_1 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\"><p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<\/div><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.booksy.com\/us\/barbers\/the-cutting-edge-the-history-of-shaving\/#the-beginning-of-shaving\" >The beginning of shaving<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.booksy.com\/us\/barbers\/the-cutting-edge-the-history-of-shaving\/#how-to-cut-hair-in-the-stone-age\" >How to cut hair in the stone age?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.booksy.com\/us\/barbers\/the-cutting-edge-the-history-of-shaving\/#egyptian-beards\" >Egyptian beards<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.booksy.com\/us\/barbers\/the-cutting-edge-the-history-of-shaving\/#egyptian-baldness\" >Egyptian baldness<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.booksy.com\/us\/barbers\/the-cutting-edge-the-history-of-shaving\/#godlike-style\" >Godlike style<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"the-beginning-of-shaving\"><\/span>The beginning of shaving<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stone age. That\u2019s where it all (probably) started: around 100,000 years ago as mankind learned how to craft and use tools. Our ancestors from that period are always shown as hairy, mumbling creatures, more apes than men. This would have been handy during the Ice Age \u2013 you had a nice layer of fur to protect you from snow, wind, snow, water, snow and ice. Plus, it added a proper swagger. Yeah, that\u2019s right \u2013 hair was always seen by the opposite sex as something<em>&nbsp;sexy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/bks-blog-prd-wp-new-blog.storage.googleapis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/15094321\/shutterstock_66212569-1-1024x846.jpg\" alt=\"The beginning of shaving\" class=\"wp-image-35763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bks-blog-prd-wp-new-blog.storage.googleapis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/15094321\/shutterstock_66212569-1-1024x846.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bks-blog-prd-wp-new-blog.storage.googleapis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/15094321\/shutterstock_66212569-1-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bks-blog-prd-wp-new-blog.storage.googleapis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/15094321\/shutterstock_66212569-1-768x634.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bks-blog-prd-wp-new-blog.storage.googleapis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/15094321\/shutterstock_66212569-1.jpg 1133w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"how-to-cut-hair-in-the-stone-age\"><\/span>How to cut hair in the stone age?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To remove hair, our furry forefathers used different tools, but they were all rather primitive. It is even believed that BEFORE they invented tools, they were pulling out their hair with seashells. How? Use your imagination on that one. It is said it took them 40,000 years (lol, right?) to finally acquire more advanced techniques for hair removal. At this point, they started using more sophisticated tools, such as flakes of obsidian. Once they got the \u2018razor\u2019 part down, it took them another 35,000 years to come up with something that resembled shaving cream. And it was only women who used it first! Fortunately, this was around the time of another fairly significant milestone- the agricultural revolution. Now people had a chance to settle down, work on metal and so \u2013 create metal blades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And from this point, it\u2019s a short step towards modern blades, clippers and razors. But you will learn about that in the next part of this article, so look forward to it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s time for the second part of our History of Shaving series. This time we will travel to ancient Egypt and focus entirely on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What\u2019s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear \u2018Egypt\u2019? Pyramids, the Sphinx, pharaohs, ancient civilizations\u2026 Okay, sand might not be first, but it is somewhere there, right? Egypt is hot and you don\u2019t want to be hairy when it\u2019s hot.\u00a0<strong>That\u2019s one of the reasons why ancient Egyptians shaved their bodies<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 women, men and children. They were also famous for being clean and bathing a few times a day \u2013 and in that time it was something to brag about even more than it is now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"egyptian-beards\"><\/span>Egyptian beards<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, Egyptian fashion had eras filled with beards and mustaches. Men used to braid their beards and decorate them with gold. But at some point they decided that hairlessness separated man from beasts, so they started to clean shave their entire bodies in order to become more civilized. \u00a0Sometimes they even shave their eyebrows and pull out their eyelashes. Yes, PULL OUT THEIR EYELASHES. Pretty brutal, huh? It was sometimes a part of ritual cleansing, so that\u2019s fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since they were so focused on hygiene, being completely bald seemed like a logical solution for keeping clean. What started as a health procedure resulted in ancient Egyptians distinguishing themselves as an entire civilization of baldies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"egyptian-baldness\"><\/span>Egyptian baldness<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to become very sexy and completely bald Egyptians would use depilatory creams, pumice stones and bronze razors. But the wealthiest would hire a barber to live with them and clean-shave them every day. Pharaohs\u2019 barbers would even use sanctified razors with jewels. Position of barber was pretty high, since removing hair was so important for the Egyptians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But wait a second. The Egyptians are always portrayed as ones with big black bobs on their heads, decorated with gold ornaments. Yes. Those were wigs. Going completely bald in public was not common and was not seen as something polite. &nbsp;Also those wigs were protecting them from the sun. Remember? Egypt is hot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Facial hair were also seen as a negligence. And yes, pharaohs are pictured with long, slim beards, even female pharaohs. They were also fake. Yeah, we know: it\u2019s confusing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"godlike-style\"><\/span>Godlike style<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beards worn by pharaohs were called osirids and they were made out of gold or silver. They were usually worn during celebrations and fancy parties. It was straight when the pharaoh was alive, but after his (or her!) death it was changed to curly one. It was a symbol of pharaoh becoming a god (or a goddess!).&nbsp;<strong>And probably nothing shows how important hair was for ancient Egyptians<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.booksy.com\/BNmHLAmTZL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BECOME A PRO WITH BOOKSY<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history of shaving is almost as old as mankind. 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