So I've been wetshaving the old school way now for about a month and so far have only tried out two brands of DE razor blades, Merkur HD and Derby.
I've found that the Merkur gives an exceptional shave the first time I use a brand new one, but shaves 2-5 quickly get progressively worse over the week. With the Derbys, the shave isn't as good as a day 1 Merkur, but at least stays consistently pretty good up to days 4 and 5.
Are there any other particularly good brands to give a try? I currently have about 3-4 Merkur blades left, and about 90 Derbys (I bought a 100 pack for $10) so I'll have a while before I use what I have on stock up. I've heard good and bad from Feather, in that brand new blades give fantastic shaves but can definitely ruin a face too.
I've found that the Merkur gives an exceptional shave the first time I use a brand new one, but shaves 2-5 quickly get progressively worse over the week. With the Derbys, the shave isn't as good as a day 1 Merkur, but at least stays consistently pretty good up to days 4 and 5.
Are there any other particularly good brands to give a try? I currently have about 3-4 Merkur blades left, and about 90 Derbys (I bought a 100 pack for $10) so I'll have a while before I use what I have on stock up. I've heard good and bad from Feather, in that brand new blades give fantastic shaves but can definitely ruin a face too.
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) I would check out shaveabuck.com I just saw a post by the vendor and bought some blades for several reasons. 1) the sampler packs I saw at places like...well I won't name names... weren't that great of a deal because either the shipping was a lot or the pack wasn't much of a discount. 2) I couldn't find a pack with just blades that I really wanted to try. The shaveabuck guy has lots of top notch blades including both sharks and bluebirds (both 5 star blades on B&B review pages), 7 O'clocks, astras, personna reds, personna blues, derbies, and some others I don't remember right now. I just got 4 packs of blades for less than $10 SHIPPED, and if the claims are true I may get a refund on my $2.00 shipping as the vendor's post claims blades ship free.
