One Cartridge in February Challenge.

[ZJ68]

So the safety razor blades forum is doing the "One Blade in February Challenge". Sounds like fun. I thought about dropping in there with a ProGlide cartridge, but since we have this forum, why not here? Gillette claims a ProGlide is good for a month, so I'll be breaking out a new ProGlide cart tomorrow and seeing how that works out.

Anyone else interested?

http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showth...Blade-in-February-quot-Challenge-2016-Edition

 

[nelamvr6]

Does this mean we can only use ONE cart for the whole month, or one type/brand for the whole month?

I've been doing a lot of DE shaving here lately anyway, so I could prolly do it either way...

 

[ZJ68]

Just like the blade challenge, try to use a single cartridge for the whole month and push it as far as it will go.

 

[frstplce]

It seems like this would only be a good challenge for those who regularly change their cart blades after only a few shaves. I always get 20-22 shaves avg. on a Schick Hydro and a few more than that on a Fusion.

My last Hydro I started using back in October and just tossed it about a week ago. Granted I was only using it about twice per week as I rotate with my DE equipment.

 

[Highspeedlane]

I can do a month worth of shaves easy on a Mach 3 cart (5x a week). I have one now with 5 shaves on it and will simply continue using that one through Feb.

In fact after reading Boseb's 100 shaves on a DE blade I got curious to continue using that same cart for as long as possible just to see how far it will go.

We'll see what happens!

 

[ZJ68]

One day, one shave. A brand new ProGlide cartridge and a brand new puck of Tabac. Excellent.

 

[ZJ68]

Last night's shave was Tabac cream, tonight's was Palmolive Refreshing Lemon. Nice.

 

[Highspeedlane]

9 shaves on my Mach 3 cart (5 are from last month) and no signs of slowing down. Plan to push it all the way through Feb if possible and even beyond if it permits.

 

[ZJ68]

4th shave AoS Sandalwood cream. 5th & 6th Tabac soap. The ProGlide cart should be just about broken in by now.

 

[FatboyFan]

Is that a challenge?...I have mates that flog their carts to death over a month easy LOL. The way prices are, a month a cart is almost an economic necessity for some .

That said, i could never get more than a week or so out of a Fusion or Mach3 so I'm a bust for this. Actually, I haven't picked up a cart razor for almost exactly a year now. I should give it a try to see how it goes (probably wind up in the usual rash)

 

[ZJ68]

Is that a challenge?

I have no problem getting a month out of one, so not much of a challenge here. The safety razor guys were doing it in their forum this month, so I thought it would be fun to document it here. I also didn't want to crap up their thread with cartridge talk since this forum is here now.

 

[mmaggi]

I get 40-50 shaves from 1 Fusion ProGlide cart.

 

[ZJ68]

7th Tabac soap again, 8th Jack Black Beard Lube and 9th Povence Sante Green Tea. All very nice, of course.

 

[Highspeedlane]

Well in the interest of full disclosure I have to be honest and admit I got distracted by another shaving toy (my pre-war nickel Tech) and derailed my original plan of Mach 3 endurance testing. I am still keeping count on the cart I have though and intend to track its use when I do pick it up again.

That's the story of my life though. One minute I intend to do one thing, then the weekend comes along and I get distracted onto something else.

Shave on gents!

 

[frstplce]

I'm participating here, more incidentally than intentionally. I started with a Bic Hybrid 4 blade razor the last week of January. My previous use of Bics were underwhelming. The Bic 3 blade that I used some time ago may have been the worst cart to ever touch my face, and I've tried quite a few.

This 4 blade one kind of surprised me. The first shave was a bit rough, but tolerable. It smoothed on the second shave, and yesterday was the eleventh shave on this blade. I don't expect to push this blade for the entire month, but I am curious to see how long it does last.

 

[ZJ68]

14 days, 14 shaves. Halfway through the month, and most of the way through Gillette's claim of a month's worth of shaves (I think that's 20). No problems so far. Except that with shaving every day, one pass pretty much does it, so shaving takes no time at all.

 

[fuzzball]

This is a challenge? I shave every other day and I'm on the last cart in a Fusion 14-pack I bought at Sam's Club two and a half years ago.

 

[ZJ68]

Twenty days twenty shaves, all good.

 

[ZJ68]

29 days, 29 shaves, one cartridge, zero problems. I had no doubt I could get a month out of it, but this is the first time I've actually counted that many shaves on a cartridge.

 

[coase]

I switched to DE so I didn't have to feel I needed to stretch my cartridges out for a month. But before DE I did that all the time. I REVEL in the pleasure of tossing a cheap blade out after only 3 shaves even if it could give me half a dozen more.