Posted on 04/18/2014 8:50:12 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
April 18 (Reuters) - Procter & Gamble Co is planning to offer a new kind of razor, with a swiveling ball hinge and a pricey tag, to move forward with its strategy to push premium products, according to the Wall Street Journal on Friday .
The world's largest household products maker has seen sales of its Gillette razors suffer a hit in the fourth quarter of 2013 from the growing trend of sporting moustaches and stubble.
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I recently grew a beard and couldn’t be happier. If I ever shave again I will avoid the Gillette crap and buy the el cheapo Dollar Shave Club folks instead.
I replace my screen on the Braun maybe once or twice a year. Sometimes the beard hairs break parts of the screen and the damned thing bites like a gator!
I think three blades are optimum using the Gillette products. Dry the razor on a towel afterwards and store it outside the bathroom.
That’s okay. I knew what you meant.
Must have!
Must have!
More is more better, right?
Mach 3 was about the epitomy of the mutli blade razer, twins suck, and those with more than 3 have their blades so close together they are useless if you have more than a days worth of stubble, because they get clogged up.
With a Mach 3 can shave a weeks worth of stubble to clean in a few minutes.
Of course closest you will ever get is with a true straight edge used by a pro, but most of us can’t afford to pay a barber to give us a shave daily.
did you know king gellette was a socialist eutopian who thought there should only be one city in the USA called metropolis? one corporation. one power generator via niagra falls.
Then his sold out to proctor and gamble.
I just pound my whiskers through my cheeks with a 16 oz. claw hammer, and bite them off from the inside. Then a little splash of habanero aftershave, and I’m good to go for the rest of the day.
I still use the two bladed Gillette sensor. I only change the blades a few times a year. Shaving is something I do, but it just isn’t a big deal. I tried the 3 blade version and it is OK, but I won’t upgrade until I need to. Battery powered? Why?
Simple products have an innate problem in the marketplace, they can’t generate separation from the competition. Your basic two blade razor is a piece of infallible technology that any idiot company can make en-mas cheap and effective. So how do they get you to buy their product vs others? There’s really two paths: find some minor difference with your product that you can claim makes it better, or make a much more complicated trademark-able hard to replicate version that you can claim makes it better. The problem with the first path is there just aren’t that many potential minor differences and they are, after all, minor. The problem with the second path is it becomes an arms race that quickly has companies adding ridiculous “features” that nobody really wants.
Dang right. I don’t grow anything a good quality belt sander won’t take care of. Not the cheap ones, of course.
using a waterpic can clean out the razor clogs. A hand towel next to your razor can dry it off leading to MONTHS of use.
It goes past 11!
Oh for the days of the Gillette Blue Blades! Use once, drop the used blade in the slot in the medicine cabinet. Grab the styptic pencil and alcohol after shave for razor burn.
Before that there was the straight razor.
I notice the single blade, is now being sold on TV. I still have the old single blade handle in which you unscrew the handle, take the top off, drop in the blade screw the handle back on and you are in business.
That’s what I used to do, but I just kept wearing out the belts too quick...
That’s so funny that I’m out of words for a response. Is that original, or from some standup routine?
Soft.
I lather with caustic soda, burn them off with a blowtorch, douse it with nitric acid and feel like a champ afterward.
I read that Gillette’s patent on their older double blades ran out in the USA. Personally, I get just as good a shave with 2 blades as with 20, so I bought these from Amazon:
Actually, I bought the 100 blade package a few months back at $11...so 11 cents/shaving head, including shipping.
Another very good alternative is something like this:
I find the single blades harder to get a good shave in spots like the chin and jaw, but they give a very good shave everywhere else. Again - at 11 cents a blade, it is obscene to pay $3+ for a single cartridge with a zillion blades!
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