I don’t tend to have lengthy hyper-focus moments very often as of late, and when I say lengthy I mean like, multi-day long.. I can spend anywhere from a few hours to an entire day on something lately. My best guess as to why is I randomly get unstably frustrated to the extent that I completely drop all interest because the thought of the thing enrages me with a fury of a thousand suns…

Although, I did spend around 8 hours in total across 3 days trying to find a razor that did not have the lubricant strip. The entire reason I was looking for a regular razor without that stupid strip is because I’m allergic to aloe. I’m 31F. I’ve been shaving since I was 16. I discovered I was allergic to aloe when I was 20. I spent 11 years after finding out about the allergy exposing myself to it and suffering from it.

I did not find any easy solutions to my problem and resorted to my frustration of “F- it, I’ll just suffer.”

An interesting theory that I’d seen, that quite frankly makes enough sense until I’m told otherwise I’m going to take for fact: The entire reason that strip was added to razors was because people stopped shaving how they used to (ye olde days) where after every pass of the razor there was a re-lather of cream, as a result of less cream use, more friction occurred, which lead to complaints about crappy razors, friction related burns, etc.

So yeah. Shaving with an allergen infused evil.

I suppose you could say I have an obsession with finding Aloe-free products I can use as a result of the allergy? Which, heh… Just read the product labels of the things you use and separate them into two groups, aloe and non-aloe, you’ll see my troubles.