Posted on 10/25/2020 1:58:15 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
I use the Feather AS-D2, with Feather blades.
I just go with the Costco store brand. Big box of them lasts a while.
Gillete pissed everybody off here on FR for their anti-male attitude advertising.
Because time came to pass, they are OK now?
Get yourself a Merkur safety razor. It’ll last forever and you can buy 100 blades for $15. I bought a box of razors 5 years ago and I’ve got about 25 left.
As others have said, safety razor (DE) and Wilkinson blades. After you get the technique down a double edge isn’t slow at all and gives a MUCH better shave. Biggest tip is to shave after a hot shower to soften your whiskers. Do that and the blade will glide easily across your face.
I wonder what the differences are? I recall buying Russian Gillette knockoffs, but edges were rough. Some other brands had different edge bevel (is bevel, the angle, the right word?). I see Feather mentioned - they’re only for the stout hearted! I like a quick shave without blood. Old man Gillette really did a good design for a one-size-fits-all safety razor. I used to love their Platinum Plus.
I have a friend who works at Gillette who got me quality-control samples of their Russian DE. He complains how DE still has the world market, and they can’t get folks to buy their 13-blade, $6-per-shave crap.
Cheapest but I prefer the two bladed ones. Immediately drying it off with a 3$ Goodwill hair drier after I shave and I can use the same 8 cent razor for anywhere from three weeks to four months.
The Personna Med Prep blades are marked FOR HOSPITAL USE. In my experience, they’re nice and sharp, and they last longer. Made in USA. I had some rough experiences sampling various blades when I took up safety razor shaving. I just clung in blessed relief to the first blade that worked really well for me without carving up my epidermis.
I’m with you on the new age of gaudy, overpriced, money-wasting gimmick razors. It’s all preposterous.
Disposable “double edge stainless” for me. Cost is three or four bucks a year.
No disposables... Barbados blades... Outstanding razor blades, combine with barbosol shave cream
https://www.amazon.com/Feather-Double-Edge-Blades-Count/dp/B00AGG3MNU-
The Japanese Feathers, from Feather in Japan. There are others, but the URL is for the ones I bought, and they are great. I use mine in a Baili, but it is from China. I got it a few years back.
Oh that brought memories flooding back. Sometime around '55 my Dad sent me to the store for blades. I bought the Gillette "Blue Blades". Wrong. Got lectured and sent back for "Thin Blades".
Hope you let them know why you left.
That’s good - find a blade and system you like and stay with it, and hope it stays available. I kept chasing variants of platinum plus when they’d become unavailable. The last was from Brazil. But I won’t contribute to Gillette anymore.
For travel, I liked the disposable Atra-style (Trac II with pivot). When Gillette first came out with the flex blade, ‘Sensor’ I think, it wouldn’t give me a smooth shave. I assume that’s why they continued to add blades, i.e., because they don’t work! And now you pay through the nose, too.
Sometimes you can build a better mousetrap, sometimes you can’t.
Yes, I let them know. I’m not sure if it does any good, but at least I have some small measure of control.
I use DSC too. I get the Pre Shave scrub which really sets up the shave nicely. Working from home now I shave maybe, maybe twice a week. I have so many blades yet to be used, probably will skip a month or two or the scheduled delivery.
I use Harry’s also and their shave gel is the best. One small drop covers my entire face.
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