Why is so much shaving stuff made in India?
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Lower cost, Plus 500 million Indian men still use DE razors.
Maybe it's because India has 375,571,529 males of shaving age? (2004 est., ages 14 and up) Even if half of them have beards and don't shave at all, that still leaves almost 188 million potential shavers! 
What he said.
Much higher proportion of stuff is made in England or Germany.
Maybe it's because India has 375,571,529 males of shaving age? (2004 est., ages 14 and up) Even if half of them have beards and don't shave at all, that still leaves almost 188 million potential shavers!
And they don't have the money to spend $4.00 on a cartridge (or they are smart enough not to)
Maybe it's because India has 375,571,529 males of shaving age? (2004 est., ages 14 and up) Even if half of them have beards and don't shave at all, that still leaves almost 188 million potential shavers!
Let's not even discuss the women's beards.
Maybe it's because India has 375,571,529 males of shaving age? (2004 est., ages 14 and up) Even if half of them have beards and don't shave at all, that still leaves almost 188 million potential shavers!
I had four Indian assistants for a couple of years, two had moustaches but all four made a much better effort to stay clean shaven than the English scruffy herberts we shared an office with. With all the Indians I've worked with, I can't remember one sporting stubble.
Similarly situation here too. The guys I worked with were professional and always cleanly shaven. A nice change from some of the natives I've had to put up with
As well as the other reasons, a lot of them are too smart to go for an expensive solution when a cheaper one exists. Although, when they come back from visiting India, they do tell me about the massive marketing campaigns by Western companies and how a good chunk of their countrymen could be 'turned' to using cartridges, especially the rich.
Similarly situation here too. The guys I worked with were professional and always cleanly shaven. A nice change from some of the natives I've had to put up with
As well as the other reasons, a lot of them are too smart to go for an expensive solution when a cheaper one exists. Although, when they come back from visiting India, they do tell me about the massive marketing campaigns by Western companies and how a good chunk of their countrymen could be 'turned' to using cartridges, especially the rich.
I hadn't started DE shaving then, but my fondness for old fashioned things - mechanical watches, film cameras, vinyl records, loose tea among others - was a source of much hilarity for my Indian colleagues. I think they saw me as being slightly otherworldly - no doubt they returned home with tales of obscure mystic Celts and their strange ways
Indians are well known for being great in math,even in antiquity...so if a $5 non recycleable spray can of butane propelled foam gives you 15 shaves @5 u.s.dollars and a puck of godrej gives you 50 shaves @ 45 u.s. cents,why toss moneydown the drain ? the answer is "convenience"...most americans want everything fast or instantaneous,and are willing to shell out billions a year for conveniece...most people outside the u.s. are more frugal...
Man, looking over all these numbers, I think I'm in the wrong line of work. I've been earning a living the hard way!
India has a large workforce, access to natural resources, and not enough capital to make it cost effective to import more expensive finished consumer goods. Ergo, they make their own.
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