What are Gillette Swedes?
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They were an excellent DE-blade.
Discontinued since a few years.
For me the Gillette Yellows or Bleue Extras comes closest to a match from the blades still being made.
see picture. Note that there are other blades in different packaging also called "Gillette Platinum" which are not "Swedes".
+1 - Although I must admit that I like Gillette Yellows better than Swedes. The Bleue Extras are great too.
Agree on the Bleue Extras -- you can still get them, too. I've been bopping back & forth between Bleue Extras and Platinum Plus over the past week or so, and the Bleue Extras seem to be winning in that matchup.
-- Chet
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In my opinion, there isn't much that comes close to a Swede that I've tried yet. There are plenty of blades out there that are just as sharp or sharper but the Swede also lasts considerably longer than current blades. I tried a Swede recently and got ten, triple pass shaves out of it before throwing it away and I could have probably got another one or two out of it. I find the current blades just go straight from sharp to dull and I get three shaves out of them. The Swede gradually started to lose it's edge after about shave seven. I'm currently using a vintage Gillette Spoiler which I'm four shaves into and it's still very sharp and I've got a Personna 74 to try which will apparently outlast a Swede.
Here is where I get mine. A nice seller from London, great price and fast ship!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Gillette-bleue-...tem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35a6e68741
http://cgi.ebay.com/Gillette-bleue-...tem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35a6e68741
Seems to be the case with me as well. Just got my 5th shave with a Swede and I'll definitely go for a 6th. The way the blade feels, it feels like it has a few more in it right now.
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If you'd rather get just a ten pack with a little quicker shipping, WestCoastShaving.com has them. About the same price for a 10 pack if you factor the shipping in. It's the same stock, he just purchased a couple cases from this guy.
Honestly, now that both are discontinued I think the Spoiler is a better blade.
SepticTank told me in another Swedes thread that:
"Before P&G took over one of the customer service addresses on the packaging was in Stockholm (there were others in London, Oslo, Espoo, Copenhagen & France) hence they got christened "Swedes".
They were initially made in Berlin, then production was migrated East to Lodz in Poland, and about 9 months ago they retooled the factory in Lodz for making cartridges and moved production to St. Petersburg - simultaneously removing distribution in most of Western Europe."
on the question why the Swedes are called Swedes.
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"Before P&G took over one of the customer service addresses on the packaging was in Stockholm (there were others in London, Oslo, Espoo, Copenhagen & France) hence they got christened "Swedes".
They were initially made in Berlin, then production was migrated East to Lodz in Poland, and about 9 months ago they retooled the factory in Lodz for making cartridges and moved production to St. Petersburg - simultaneously removing distribution in most of Western Europe."
on the question why the Swedes are called Swedes.
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Not really, if you buy just a pack of 10 blades, with shipping it comes to almost 40 cents a blade.
