Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is not surprising that the expression “a close shave” is used to describe a dangerous, often near-death experience. Trusting ...

For hundreds of years, a trained barber used an extremely sharp blade known as a straight razor to accomplish a close shave. When the first self-contained “safety razors” became widely available, many ...

According to Wikipedia, men have been shaving for thousands of years. The first implements used for this purpose were shaped pieces of flint and obsidian, and later, copper blades. Eventually, as the ...