Sliding Blade Packs

[mblakele]

I like the wrapper-less, sliding blade packs used for Walmart Wilkinsons and US Personnas. The integrated blade bank is handy, but most importantly I prefer sliding a blade out of these packages vs extracting one from a paper wrapper.

I know I can buy NOS blades, and I have some, but I'd like to know about current-production options. If I could get the Lords or the Iridiums in the NOS Gillette packages, I might already have a thousand or two.

Leaving the quality of the blades to one side, are there any other current-production blades that use this style of packaging? I suspect everyone has gone to paper, but I might have missed a brand or three.

Thanks for any ideas.

 

[Mako72]

Personnas these include US drugstore house brands. Wilkinson Sword at Walmart. Kmart Dorcos. Misc Dollar retailers, mostly dorcos I think. Thats all thats coming to mind.

Jay

 

[AmishFury]

store brand blades (usually ASR or Dorco) often come in a dispenser like that

 

[ginhud]

blue personnas on some sites

 

[ateace]

If you can get your hands on a schick dispenser (Wal-Mart), you can carefully pry one end open and insert the blades of your choice. This should work a few times on the same dispenser.

 

[mblakele]

If you can get your hands on a schick dispenser (Wal-Mart), you can carefully pry one end open and insert the blades of your choice. This should work a few times on the same dispenser.

Thanks, I thought about that. But I don't think it's worth the effort. Did I mention that I am lazy?

To the other respondents, thanks for reminding me about the Kmart blades - it appears from other discussion that some may be US Personnas and some may be Dorcos, depending on where the packaging says they are made.

I'll keep an eye out for unwrapped slider packs with blue Personnas. But... I presume you mean the blades that are also called Crystals, which supposed are supposed to be Israeli like the red pack blades are? How do you know that they are blues if they are in an unwrapped slider pack?

 

[DunEdinRanger]

A&P, and PATHMARK, two local Supermarket chains, also sell the Dorco blades in a dispenser. I believe they are the ST 300, not the ST 301.

 

[DE Shaver]

You can still find packages of Gillette Bleue Extra that use the sliding packs. They are the NOS versions, however, and not the current St. Petersburg production runs.

 

[ginhud]

These are the ones I had in mind when I mentioned the blue personnas.
http://bestgroomingtools.com/personna-double-edge-razor-blades-five-pack-p-264.html

 

[DE Shaver]

Sometimes, people have trouble pushing out the blade using this packaging. Fortunately, I've never had a problem but some people had to break them open to retrieve their blades.