If any forum can answer the question 'is there such a thing as a good disposable razor?', it's going to be Badger & Blade.
An appeal for advice. My partner is a nurse on an intensive care ward here in the UK. Through the pandemic she's worked incredibly hard to support her patients. Her workload changed from one-to-one patient care to being doubled, tripled and even quadrupled up with profoundly ill patients.
With the recent reduction in influx, she's occasionally had a little more time providing one-to-one care again, and likes to ensure all the basic jobs that can be missed at busy times get done. Since watching me take my journey into traditional shaving, she's found a real pleasure in being able to provide a good shave for her male patients who want one. She told me recently about the transformation she'd made for a long-term patient in a hospital where she went to provide cover. The gentleman had a full and very bushy beard - after washing & when she asked him how he liked it brushed, he replied he preferred to be clean shaven: she realised then he'd not been given a shave in months. He was too weak to do it himself, which is typical of the kind of patients she looks after.
After my partner completed the job, the patient was beaming; he immediately asked for his phone so he could call his wife. My partner was in the room hearing the conversation on speaker, and both man & wife were overjoyed at this small but significant act of care - he said he felt like a new man, and his wife was so happy to see him looking more his normal self. Nurse after nurse came into the room as word got about, all amazed by his appearance. And two nurses came back to my partner within the hour, asking her to come and see their patients - they'd done the same thing and there was a palpable feeling of happiness and hope on the unit. Small things matter.
Many of these patients have never had a family visit, and have been rushed in on blue lights. As such they rarely have their own shaving kit. The single-patient razors the hospital provide aren't great: she's careful with angle and pressure, but even so she finds she can produce nicks and post-shave rash at times. The 'shave cream' sachets are even worse so she makes a kind of lather with bath soap and water in her hands, and find this works OK but not great.
I want to invest a little money in some decent-quality disposable razors and shave soap samples, that my partner can keep in her work locker and use to provide the best shave possible. All the kit has to be disposable, for infection control. Can anyone comment on brands of razors and soap samples? Info would be greatly appreciated.
Luke
An appeal for advice. My partner is a nurse on an intensive care ward here in the UK. Through the pandemic she's worked incredibly hard to support her patients. Her workload changed from one-to-one patient care to being doubled, tripled and even quadrupled up with profoundly ill patients.
With the recent reduction in influx, she's occasionally had a little more time providing one-to-one care again, and likes to ensure all the basic jobs that can be missed at busy times get done. Since watching me take my journey into traditional shaving, she's found a real pleasure in being able to provide a good shave for her male patients who want one. She told me recently about the transformation she'd made for a long-term patient in a hospital where she went to provide cover. The gentleman had a full and very bushy beard - after washing & when she asked him how he liked it brushed, he replied he preferred to be clean shaven: she realised then he'd not been given a shave in months. He was too weak to do it himself, which is typical of the kind of patients she looks after.
After my partner completed the job, the patient was beaming; he immediately asked for his phone so he could call his wife. My partner was in the room hearing the conversation on speaker, and both man & wife were overjoyed at this small but significant act of care - he said he felt like a new man, and his wife was so happy to see him looking more his normal self. Nurse after nurse came into the room as word got about, all amazed by his appearance. And two nurses came back to my partner within the hour, asking her to come and see their patients - they'd done the same thing and there was a palpable feeling of happiness and hope on the unit. Small things matter.
Many of these patients have never had a family visit, and have been rushed in on blue lights. As such they rarely have their own shaving kit. The single-patient razors the hospital provide aren't great: she's careful with angle and pressure, but even so she finds she can produce nicks and post-shave rash at times. The 'shave cream' sachets are even worse so she makes a kind of lather with bath soap and water in her hands, and find this works OK but not great.
I want to invest a little money in some decent-quality disposable razors and shave soap samples, that my partner can keep in her work locker and use to provide the best shave possible. All the kit has to be disposable, for infection control. Can anyone comment on brands of razors and soap samples? Info would be greatly appreciated.
Luke