When Did Humans Start Shaving—And Why? - Science ABC

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Most experts and found artifacts suggest that shaving has been around since approximately 100,000 BC, when cavemen would eliminate hair from their body by pulling them out one at a time, even using rocks or shells like tweezers to speed the process.

Shaving has become a part of the daily routine for hundreds of millions of people around the world, whether it is the daily morning shave for men, the weekly leg shaving for women, or the meticulous plucking, waxing and laser treating on other parts of the body, the human relationship to body hair is strange, to say the least.

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Man shaving his beard (Photo Credit : Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock)

To think that we spend thousands of hours over the course of our lives removing hair that inevitably grows back seems like a practice in madness, yet we are socially trained (in some cases) to keep our faces clear of scruff and our bodies as smooth as eggs. The question is, when did humans start shaving, and why is this practice still continued to this day?

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