Love the blades known as Lab Blues and Med Preps in DE format, and the GEM coated in GEM format. Just surprised they don't make AC blades. Anyone know why they are missing out on this market?
Why doesn't Personna make AC blades?
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It's a good question, although my impression is whereas Feather makes a lot of money from selling to barbers and salons, Personna kind of tilts toward the medical and lab markets. So Personna's non-DE blades tend to look more like surgical blades and so forth, and the DE blades are kind of taking advantage of multiple markets for that sort of thing?
I also think AC blades were originally Feather's design so maybe it's just a turf kind of thing?
Personna does sell this: Personna Mini Hair Shaper Blades, 20 Blades - https://www.beautydrama.com/personna-mini-hair-shaper-blades-20-blades/
... which they also market for lab use.
My general impression is AC blades are more niche and Personna might see it as ceding something to a competitor or something. My guess is if AC blades per se started seeing a lot of medical and lab use Personna / AccuTech might start making them.
But this is just me speculating wildly and I reserve the right to be completely wrong about all of it.
I also think AC blades were originally Feather's design so maybe it's just a turf kind of thing?
Personna does sell this: Personna Mini Hair Shaper Blades, 20 Blades - https://www.beautydrama.com/personna-mini-hair-shaper-blades-20-blades/
... which they also market for lab use.
My general impression is AC blades are more niche and Personna might see it as ceding something to a competitor or something. My guess is if AC blades per se started seeing a lot of medical and lab use Personna / AccuTech might start making them.
But this is just me speculating wildly and I reserve the right to be completely wrong about all of it.
It would be a significant investment, requiring space and new machinery that would have to pay off for AccuTec to make them.
As @abies wrote, the AccuTec company products cross over into the medical and lab markets. The AC format, AFAIK, doesn't really get used much in those markets.
As @abies wrote, the AccuTec company products cross over into the medical and lab markets. The AC format, AFAIK, doesn't really get used much in those markets.
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I sort of figured it had something to do with their main market is the medical industry and AC blades aren't used there as far as I know. Kind of a shame as I know they'd probably be my favorite AC blade based on the other formats being my favorite.
Personna is part of Edgewell. Edgewell makes AC-format blades under the Schick Proline P-series (dispensers sold as Schick Proline P-30 or P-20 depending on how many blades are crammed in the dispenser).
