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shaving
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thumb|right|A man shaving his neck using a straight razor thumb|A woman leg shaving using a razor thumb|right|Cartridge razor with two blades
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Encyclopedic overview
22 sectionsContents
- History
- Shaving methods
- Wet shaving
- Electric shaving
- Trimmer
- Effects of shaving
- Aberrations
- Cuts
- Razor burn
- Razor bumps
- Myths
- Shaving in religion
- Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Christianity
- Islam
- Sunni
- Shia
- Judaism
- Sikhism
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
thumb|right|A man shaving his neck using a straight razor thumb|A woman leg shaving using a razor thumb|right|Cartridge razor with two blades
Shaving is the removal of hair, by using a razor or any other kind of bladed implement, to slice it down—to the level of the skin or otherwise. Shaving is most commonly practiced by men to remove their facial hair and by women to remove their leg and underarm hair. A man is called clean-shaven if he has had his beard entirely removed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “shaving” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.