{"id":38,"date":"2025-08-10T09:10:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/2025\/08\/10\/what-happens-during-a-traditional-hot-towel-shave\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T09:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:10:45","slug":"what-happens-during-a-traditional-hot-towel-shave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/2025\/08\/10\/what-happens-during-a-traditional-hot-towel-shave\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens during a traditional hot towel shave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A hot towel shave is not a faster way to shave. It is a better one, and it takes around forty minutes for good reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step one: heat<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two hot towels in a row soften the beard and open the skin. This is the step that makes everything after it comfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step two: oil and lather<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pre-shave oil gives the razor something to glide on. A warm lather, worked in with a brush, lifts each hair away from the skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step three: the razor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first pass follows the grain. A second pass, across the grain, gets the closeness a cartridge razor never will, without the irritation of going against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step four: cool down<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A cold towel closes the pores, then a balm calms the skin. Most clients leave with smoother skin than they arrived with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Book one before a wedding, an interview or simply a long week. You will understand why the ritual has lasted a hundred years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hot towel shave is not a faster way to shave. It is a better one, and it takes around forty minutes for good reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shaving","tag-hot-towel","tag-shaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-barbershop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}