With the right prep, the orange BIC disposable can yield a great shave.
What did you learn from your last shave?
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Great razor, been using it the last 7 days.
I just got a pretty decent shave from a white Bic1 made in France. I hear the blades last forever.
~doug~
Yes I agree
I learned if I stop at a single, WTG pass, my world won’t collapse around me as I expire from a slightly itchy neck.
Hair conditioner works well as a pre-shave before applying lather.
Well said. That took me a long time too.
I learned that a Shavette is not for me.
Lesson learned, congratulations
WTG short strokes with a little cleanup significantly increases blade life while yielding a very acceptable shave.
There is a right way and a wrong way to glue your nose back on
Olive oil. Pre-shave oil or shave oil and post-shave balm (after aftershave splash applied and washed off).
Also, one drop is borderline too much as pre-shave oil.
Also, one drop is borderline too much as pre-shave oil.
Totally concur.
I know the Derby Extra takes a lot of flak but I've used one many times, including this morning, and find it to be a perfectly nice blade.
I also can't tell much difference between blades. I seem to have had some irritation issues with Voskhods and Gillette Silver Blues, for some reason, but they're relatively minor. I've tried a good number of blades now and they all work to one degree or another although my two preferences (so far) are Astra SP's and, yes, the aforementioned Derby Extras.
It's funny. I like to look at the posts that were made when this forum first started, just to get a sense of the trends back then.
No surprise that in the razor blade forum, in the "favorite blade" type threads, Derby Extras were actually quite popular, and were mentioned much more than I would have expected.
Very true, flavor of the day. Funny how now they are looked down upon by an awful lot of people. I used them back then and still to this day. They are still the same blades, now on too new favorites
My last shave was the first for me with a Gillette Tech (a near-pristine gold '46-'49 ball end I picked up on the Bay last week) and holy cow that's one sweet-shaving razor. I threw a 7 o'clock green in there and it almost felt like there wasn't a blade in there at all.
A Bolzano blade in a Bakelite slant gives me 3 near BBS shaves and then dies and gets draggy on shave 4
I learned not to mix razors. Put a Gillette Tech on a Razorock baby smooth Handle. 
Because of the weight?I learned not to mix razors. Put a Gillette Tech on a Razorock baby smooth Handle.
I learned that I'm lazy because I don't stretch my skin when I'm shaving anymore. I'm participating in the One Blade in February challenge and have been trying to baby the blade, 2 passes instead of 3 (w/x). Turns out I can get a DFS with 2 passes if I take the time to set the alum block on the counter, pass my fingers across it and pull my neck tight.
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