Good Moral

With the exception of the last, all of the above questions are relevant to the methodology of shaving that I teach to individuals throughout the United States every day. I should note in this regard, that my shaving customers are not part of a selected “segment” of the shaving population. Nor are their shaving habits uniquely compatible with the methods I teach. Instead, their numbers are drawn from the widest possible sample of shavers. This fact, I believe, reflects the truly heterogeneous character of shaving as it exists in the real world.

My experience in working with this wide and varied group of shavers has directly shaped my approach to shaving. It also serves as a background for much of the discussion that follows. The scope of this discussion will include a brief introduction to the Roberts Method of Wet Shaving (RMWS). This introduction will consider its overall effectiveness as a shaving system. Finally, I will have a few words to say about its “revolutionary” role in the evolution of shaving over the last century.

It appears that I am the first explorer in the universe of shaving to both recognize—and develop—a comprehensive methodology for shaving differentiated beard types based on beard thickness, length and breadth. This fact accounts for the creation of my “Wet Shaving Systematics.” (I am often asked to explain the difference between the Roberts Method and the Systematics discussed here. In short, the Roberts Method is the comprehensive method of wet shaving that I teach to shavers in my Austin, Texas shaving clinics. The Systematics entails the entire field of wet shaving products, methods and technologies currently under development at the same Austin location. The former is the applied dimension; the latter its developmental side).

The Roberts Method of shaving can best be understood as: 1). An efficient and comfortable method for shaving all beard types. 2). An approach to shaving that is fundamentally “dynamic,” not static. Its use...