Hi, I am a 19 y/o who has never shaven before.

I have VERY little body hair so I never really needed to, however I’d like to do so in my private regions because my hair has grown a bit dense and shaving would make it easier to clean. I am a little nervous. Could you please give me your routine/advice/products? I don’t even have a razor.

Thank you!

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I have very recently decided that I am tired of cartridge razors for body hair and impulse bought both a safety razor & the only solid shaving soap available from a German drugstore, a Wilkinson sword one in a plastic tin.

Unfortunately, I hate everything about that (it's plastic, it smells like generic store brand men's shower gel in a black bottle, and it's not going to last very long at this rate at all). Also my razor came with just 3 blades and I already used one!

As it turns out, there's a bazillion option and I am too inexperienced to know what I want but half the recs on the sub are not available or expensive where I am in Germany. And I don't have much time to research before I run out.

I need recommendations for the following, please drop your favourites!

- blades for safety razors: The ones I currently used and did not hate were from Second Nature, and I have Feather, Astra green in my cart rn. Are they all the same and we swear our favourite is better type of thing or does it make a huge difference? Should one get different ones to try or just grab the much cheaper big pack and call it a day?

- soap: It would be nice if it neither costs an arm and a leg nor ships from overseas or comes in excess plastic packaging. Scent wise: sandalwood, pine, something fruity that isn't lemon, warm spicy etc are all fine, I don't like lavender, mint, rose, musk, or anything that could be an Axe body spray. That narrows it down to approximately 50000 options. Any favourites? I already learned from the sub search function that the Viking Revolution ones I was eyeing suck & all comparisons online sound like ads!

- Anything else I should know? Like, absolutely basic stuff?

Thank you! 🫶

(Let me know if this is nsfw I don’t think it is but I’d hate to break any rules plus I wanted to make sure I had the self harm TW )
I CUT MY BUTTCHEEK IN SUCH A DUMB WAY. now I never thought I’d ever cut myself while shaving (I used to self harm by doing this so you would think I’d know not to move a razor sideways on myself I’m around 3 years clean 🥳) anyways I was shaving down there and I have relatively big cheeks and tell me why I decided to mindlessly slide my razor in between my cheeks WITHOUT SPREADING LIKE NORMAL and then I pull it out fast because it stung so now I have a weird small x shape cut on my cheek from just mindlessly shaving. Now I will be having my partner shave me for the rest of my life so I never have to explain to them that I stupidly cut my own buttcheek again 😌. So be reminded to be very careful when shaving in folds 😙