Male grooming can be traced back millions of years to when cavemen used hinged shells to tweeze whiskers from their face. Man has for thousands of years been fighting a battle with his facial hair. He spends an average of more than 3,000 hours of his life shaving it. Shaving predates history, but it was the men and women of early Egypt who really established shaving and hair removal as a daily part of grooming.
Herodotus who lived in 485BC commented that the Egyptians bathed several times a day and set cleanliness as a top priority. In those days, however, being so clean all the time was associated with fanatical behavior. Being hairless was achieved by shaving, using old fashioned depilatory creams
