I'm just over a year in to discovering the delights of DE shaving. In all that time I have just experienced my second bad blade from a tuck of otherwise fine ones and was just wondering what the general incidence rate of bad blades is in other peoples experience?
Also, how quickly are you able to realise it's a bad blade? I am not yet sufficiently confident (arrogant...?) to believe that one bad shave is unlikely to be my fault.
In this instance, for example, the first day I had just loaded up a new blade and, having just received it in the post, decided to use Truefitt & Hill 1805 shave cream. After a horrible shave I concluded that maybe with this being a previously untried cream that I had not got the lather optimised.
The following day I used one of my more regulars, namely Crabtree & Evelyn West Indian Limes soap. Another horrible shave and I'm thinking "hmm, that's odd. Lather was fine, maybe I wasn't concentrating on the shave fully...."
Day three. Body Shop Maca Root, a very well known quantity to me. Absolute focus results in a third horrible shave and the jury has returned - it's not me!
A quick change of blade for day 4 and everything is great again - 3 easy passes to BBS with zero irritation
Also, how quickly are you able to realise it's a bad blade? I am not yet sufficiently confident (arrogant...?) to believe that one bad shave is unlikely to be my fault.
In this instance, for example, the first day I had just loaded up a new blade and, having just received it in the post, decided to use Truefitt & Hill 1805 shave cream. After a horrible shave I concluded that maybe with this being a previously untried cream that I had not got the lather optimised.
The following day I used one of my more regulars, namely Crabtree & Evelyn West Indian Limes soap. Another horrible shave and I'm thinking "hmm, that's odd. Lather was fine, maybe I wasn't concentrating on the shave fully...."
Day three. Body Shop Maca Root, a very well known quantity to me. Absolute focus results in a third horrible shave and the jury has returned - it's not me!
A quick change of blade for day 4 and everything is great again - 3 easy passes to BBS with zero irritation