I’ve used it, but I find it to be on the rough side. It gives me a reasonably good shave but I can get nicks and weepers from it.
my preferred cart is a twin blade. I have found Japanese Schick Super II twin carts on the big auction sitemfor abut $1.00 US
, but it takes a lot of looking. Those carts are very sharp, last a long time (30 shaves for me). Although there is a lub strip, it is very inoffensiv.
Trac II shaves closer than a DE but it definitely takes off more skin. It's just not worth it.
I don't know why people switched to them, frankly. Shick should have mopped the floor with Gillette- the Shick injector shaves about as close as the Trac II but with alot less irritation. It must have been clever marketting.
Well, because they were easier and more obvious for guys to use who didn't want to take the time to get good at shaving. Injectors had been around for decades before the Trac II. I get the sense they were always a bit of an oddball.
People switched to them because Gillette said that 2 blades is better than 1 and you could get away with 1 pass instead of 3.Trac II shaves closer than a DE but it definitely takes off more skin. It's just not worth it.
I don't know why people switched to them, frankly. Shick should have mopped the floor with Gillette- the Shick injector shaves about as close as the Trac II but with alot less irritation. It must have been clever marketting.
My grandfather shaved with a Shick, so did my dad. Also, in Japan, Shick regularly outsold Gillette, and at least until a few years ago, they were still produced there. Apparently, they were not that odd.
I think the fact that the US military repeatedly gave contracts to Gillette helped them in the US. Shick injectors seemed to have been an upscale way to shave, in comparison.