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Gillette? Having started to use a safety razor recently, I'm starting to think that the impetus for moving to cartridge razors was just to make the refills har

by mastax 9y ago

Gillette? Having started to use a safety razor recently, I'm starting to think that the impetus for moving to cartridge razors was just to make the refills harder to interchange and less of a commodity.

vanderZwan 9y ago
The interesting bit for me is that safety razors are nearly impossible to find in normal shops probably because they would be less profitable for the shops too.
- snuxoll 9y ago
  Sell a pack of 5 cartridges that last MAYBE a week each (pushing it, you suck it up because they’re so expensive even though they’ve already lost their edge after a single use) for $5-10, or a box of 500 blades that you can change for every shave for over a year for $5. Yeah, retailers love this garbage
  - Digit-Al 9y ago
    A week? What are you shaving with them? Yaks? :-) My cartridge razors last at least two months before I need to change them. Do you clean and dry your blades after use?
KozmoNau7 9y ago
I said "fuck it" and bought a $30 corded trimmer, 5 years ago. It's still perfectly sharp enough to take of my beard and hair, it just needs a drop of oil once in a while. Since male-pattern hair loss runs heavy in my family anyway, I decided to just buzzcut myself once a week on the lowest setting. For the limited shaving I do (sometimes my head, but usually just the edges of my beard), safety razors are so much better than cartridges. They're cheaper, they last longer and it's so much easier to do accurate beard edges.
yourapostasy 9y ago
Along similar lines, if you get isopropyl alcohol (I use 90% grade, but 70% may also work), after using your razor, dry it off, and spray your razor with the alcohol, the alcohol displaces any remaining water and sanitizes at the same time. It makes the razor last longer. Works on electric razors, too.
- ghaff 9y ago
  Way back when, someone in school did some sort of senior project along these lines. Yeah, as I recall, most of the accumulated damage to razor blades is associated with corrosion rather than wear from cutting.

by mastax 9y ago

vanderZwan 9y ago

The interesting bit for me is that safety razors are nearly impossible to find in normal shops probably because they would be less profitable for the shops too.

snuxoll 9y ago
Sell a pack of 5 cartridges that last MAYBE a week each (pushing it, you suck it up because they’re so expensive even though they’ve already lost their edge after a single use) for $5-10, or a box of 500 blades that you can change for every shave for over a year for $5. Yeah, retailers love this garbage
- Digit-Al 9y ago
  A week? What are you shaving with them? Yaks? :-) My cartridge razors last at least two months before I need to change them. Do you clean and dry your blades after use?

KozmoNau7 9y ago

I said "fuck it" and bought a $30 corded trimmer, 5 years ago. It's still perfectly sharp enough to take of my beard and hair, it just needs a drop of oil once in a while. Since male-pattern hair loss runs heavy in my family anyway, I decided to just buzzcut myself once a week on the lowest setting. For the limited shaving I do (sometimes my head, but usually just the edges of my beard), safety razors are so much better than cartridges. They're cheaper, they last longer and it's so much easier to do accurate beard edges.

yourapostasy 9y ago

Along similar lines, if you get isopropyl alcohol (I use 90% grade, but 70% may also work), after using your razor, dry it off, and spray your razor with the alcohol, the alcohol displaces any remaining water and sanitizes at the same time. It makes the razor last longer. Works on electric razors, too.

ghaff 9y ago
Way back when, someone in school did some sort of senior project along these lines. Yeah, as I recall, most of the accumulated damage to razor blades is associated with corrosion rather than wear from cutting.