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Vanity-Gentlemen, express your "vanity" by which disposable non-cart razor you use!

Posted on 10/25/2020 1:58:15 PM PDT by Terry L Smith

Gentlemen, express yourselves by means of which non'cartridge disposable razor you have used.

I am moving away from Schick ST2's because 12 razors for $12.97 is not conducive to my budget, even with "sensitive skin"!


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To: Terry L Smith

I use the Feather AS-D2, with Feather blades.


61 posted on 10/25/2020 3:40:24 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: Terry L Smith

I just go with the Costco store brand. Big box of them lasts a while.


62 posted on 10/25/2020 3:44:18 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Terry L Smith

Gillete pissed everybody off here on FR for their anti-male attitude advertising.

Because time came to pass, they are OK now?


63 posted on 10/25/2020 3:45:50 PM PDT by Cold Heart (Portland Voted for IT)
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To: Terry L Smith

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.


64 posted on 10/25/2020 4:02:32 PM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: rarestia
Merkur blades work well for me; they are Solingen steel like the straight razor my grand dad used. Col. Conk has a nice selection of soaps, blades and DE safety razors.
65 posted on 10/25/2020 4:14:43 PM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal that can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground--Mencken)
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To: Terry L Smith

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.


66 posted on 10/25/2020 4:28:06 PM PDT by VetoBill
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To: Iowa Slim

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.


67 posted on 10/25/2020 4:36:28 PM PDT by eens (beware the errors of Russia)
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To: JungleGoat77

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.


68 posted on 10/25/2020 4:38:53 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe co)
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To: eens

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.


69 posted on 10/25/2020 5:01:59 PM PDT by Iowa Slim
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To: Terry L Smith

Disposable “double edge stainless” for me. Cost is three or four bucks a year.


70 posted on 10/25/2020 5:09:47 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
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To: Terry L Smith

No disposables... Barbados blades... Outstanding razor blades, combine with barbosol shave cream


71 posted on 10/25/2020 5:15:54 PM PDT by joe fonebone (Communists Need To Be Eliminated)
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To: thescourged1

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.


72 posted on 10/25/2020 5:37:13 PM PDT by matthew fuller (No more Fox News- it's now SOROS/FOX As The World Turns.....)
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To: thescourged1
fifty blades for fifteen dollars on Amazon. I'm shaving with a Viking Meiji razor.
73 posted on 10/25/2020 5:43:46 PM PDT by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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To: SES1066
Here is a real smile, the Gillette "How are you fixed for blades" from the 50s.

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".

74 posted on 10/25/2020 5:54:11 PM PDT by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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To: yeff

Hope you let them know why you left.


75 posted on 10/25/2020 5:54:21 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: Iowa Slim

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.


76 posted on 10/25/2020 5:54:55 PM PDT by eens (beware the errors of Russia)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Yes, I let them know. I’m not sure if it does any good, but at least I have some small measure of control.


77 posted on 10/25/2020 6:09:29 PM PDT by yeff (Yuor biran has teh alibtiy to mkae oderr out of caohs)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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.


78 posted on 10/25/2020 6:23:22 PM PDT by sjm_888
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To: rednek

I use Harry’s also and their shave gel is the best. One small drop covers my entire face.


79 posted on 10/25/2020 7:00:35 PM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: Terry L Smith
Lots of replies. Now ask about electric razors.
80 posted on 10/25/2020 8:19:30 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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