Greetings gents, I found these blades on razorbladeclub when placing an order and they piqued my interest. Searched but found almost no information on the web about them. Even on B&B I only found an old post that mentioned them in passing and said they were made in Turkey. On the box only a distribution company in England is listed. No manufacturer. I bought a hundred of these for 13.95 $.
Decided to make a review on them so that others are better informed.
One other mistifying thing about these is that on one side of the box it says Platinum and on another it says Super Stainless.
The packs are in sealed white plastic dispensers, which I like. The wax paper had a conspicuous brown patch on one side but after checking the blade thoroughly I understood it's just an imperfection in the paper. The writing on one side of the blade is faded a bit.
Prep-Nivea Pure Impact shower gel fir cleaning and softening the beard; Proraso Green preshave cream
Brush-Balea Men synthetic
Merkur 43c
Cyril Salter Sublime Citrus cream
Denim Original aftershave
Nivea Active Energy balm
I wanted to give this blade every chance to perform well and of course I wanted a good shave. On a side note I had 7 days of growth as I only shave once a week.
On the first pass the blade felt pretty smooth but tugged a little. Ok, I thought, a middle of the road blade. On the second pass onde the stubble had been reduced the shave was even smoother. At the end of the shave the result was basically BBS with no irritation and no cuts or weepers whatsoever.
So, what do I think about this blade? Smoothness-wise it it very close to Voskhod. Very comfortable shave. Sharpness was so-so. For those looking for smoothness I wouls definitely recommend this. For sharpness however there are better options out there that blend in smoothness as well-Astra SP, Gillette Platinums...
Decided to make a review on them so that others are better informed.
One other mistifying thing about these is that on one side of the box it says Platinum and on another it says Super Stainless.
The packs are in sealed white plastic dispensers, which I like. The wax paper had a conspicuous brown patch on one side but after checking the blade thoroughly I understood it's just an imperfection in the paper. The writing on one side of the blade is faded a bit.
Prep-Nivea Pure Impact shower gel fir cleaning and softening the beard; Proraso Green preshave cream
Brush-Balea Men synthetic
Merkur 43c
Cyril Salter Sublime Citrus cream
Denim Original aftershave
Nivea Active Energy balm
I wanted to give this blade every chance to perform well and of course I wanted a good shave. On a side note I had 7 days of growth as I only shave once a week.
On the first pass the blade felt pretty smooth but tugged a little. Ok, I thought, a middle of the road blade. On the second pass onde the stubble had been reduced the shave was even smoother. At the end of the shave the result was basically BBS with no irritation and no cuts or weepers whatsoever.
So, what do I think about this blade? Smoothness-wise it it very close to Voskhod. Very comfortable shave. Sharpness was so-so. For those looking for smoothness I wouls definitely recommend this. For sharpness however there are better options out there that blend in smoothness as well-Astra SP, Gillette Platinums...
