I have really enjoyed the Yaqi Mellon Chrome open comb and the Fatip open comb slant. You can buy the Mellon head for about $8 on AliExpress. I would characterize both of these as efficient, but not aggressive.Ah, sorry for not explaining the brush situation fully. My first brush was a silvertip badger from Muhle. It sometimes irritated my skin, hard do use (gauging water and soap, since it holds a lot of both) and it felt kind of ''floppy'' so i wanted to try a synthetic. Sadly i ordered a very bad brush. I've recently received a Yaqi 24mm Tuxedo. It is FANTASTIC. I could splay it full force if i wanted to and not feel any irritation. Even though it has decent backbone, it is just INCREDIBLY soft. Very happy with it
Blades that i have found available here in Iceland: Shark SS, Kai SS, Feather New Hi SS, Merkur SP, Muhle SS (first blades i got, kept tugging my thicker beard hairs) and Astra Greens (which i use now, mostly happy, get some bad blades, bought a 100 pack)
The reason i've been hesitant in trying more blades, is that shipping costs are too high IMO. I would like to take a chance of buying a sample pack, but if i ended up liking the Astra ones the most, i would feel like i would have lost a lot of money, and overall it's a lot of shipping cost for a cheap item. Im talking up to 30-40 bucks shipping in some cases +20% taxes on total cost, items ordered and shipping.
But overall the Astras work really well for me, minimal tugging, if any. And it removes my beard very efficiently. So im not sure if new blades would help in removing hairs in my trouble spots
The 37C is available in my country. But i think im gonna have to pass on slanted razors. I'm not gonna self diagnose myself with OCD, but i just know the look would annoy me. But man, im sad the 41C isn't efficient, i saw somewhere the open comb really helped with efficiency.
I do highly appreciate the detailed answer!