Dear sir
The ones giving me good shaves without spending 20 bucks for a pack of 4. For me that means as of today - DSC - HARRY'S - GT5- MAGNUM 5- BIC HYBRID 5
I hope you’re not canceled or this post, carts are some what quicker and give a great shave. I shaved last night with a bic single blade orange disposable, great shave. The night before I used a muhle r41 with a rapira blade, guess what? Both great shaves, post shaves felt the same. de is not better, just a different method.Contrary to what many DE jihadists would say, the multiblades are much more technologically advanced. Aside from nostalgic reasons / hobbist / romanticism etc there's simply no way a DE can shave *better* than a good cart. And they know it. But because of the aforementioned reasons, they will *never* admit it. And they wll also become very angry, too. It's obvoius from a psychological side: after spending a fair amount of money with brushes, soaps, handles, and 50+ DE razor heads you cannnot admit you can have a more or less equal shave with a 50 cents disposable + a bit of canned foam. And in fact you will see this post (and even myself) canceled to oblivion in no time
Agreed, when I started shaving there were only de, straight and electric. I used a de and had to get good at it with practice. When carts came out trac ii, I used it right away same great shaves. I do believe carts are faster which is what people are looking for these days. If carts did not give good shaves equal to de, people like myself who had no carts to start would have gone back to de for good. Just my thoughts
I don’t think plastic or steel makes a difference once you start shaving. Sometimes some people think the more they spend the shave must be better maybe for justif
l don’t think plastic or steel makes a difference once you start shaving imo
To each their own, we all have a routine that works
Yes, this is the advantage of the modern cartridge razor: speed. It is an extremely fast shave and without the clogging and ingrown hair issues of the older cartridge razors, e.g. Trac II's. The disadvantages are cost (outrageous) and compared to say a straight razor, excessive exfoliation. They just are not that good for your skin.
Exfoliation is good, keeps your skin young. It becomes eccessive just when you apply too much pressure. if you have a good technique you won't have any problem with whatever razor.
You are dragging five blades across your face (Gillette Fusion). In a double pass shave that is ten blades, and worse if you buff. Compared to a double pass SR shave that is five times the exfoliation and you can't adjust the blade angle so even more unnecessary exfoliation where you could get by with a much shallower angle, e.g. your neck.
rotfl this joke about dragging (n) blades being more irritiating is old. Please. The blade quality of the cartridges is no worse (or better) than De blades. And a good blade exfoliation is way better than every brush. It's obivous: with the blade(s) you remove the outer (and old and "dead) skin cells. You obviously cannot do that witth a simple brush. The irritation factor is only about technique, regardless of the hardware you decide to use. And you know it.
you disagree because you're obviously biased. I never had any irritation with whatever multiblades i used. And i don't have a particularly strong skin or whatever. I just learned to use good wet-shaving techniques , good lathering (with or without brushes), good knowledge of my beard map, two (WTG/ATG) ot three (WTG/XTG/ATG) passes plus touch-ups (if required) , almost no pressure, etc. and my results have always been the same. Lucky? Definitely i don't believe so.
