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I have used straight razors, safety razors, electric razors, and various cartridges. A good multi-blade cartridge is vastly superior to anything the layman can

I have used straight razors, safety razors, electric razors, and various cartridges. A good multi-blade cartridge is vastly superior to anything the layman can do with the first three. They shave all kinds of growth in one pass, don't cut you, and get very close, without needing any foam. They really are the pinnacle of shaving technology. It's amazing how people ignore them for older tech which can only match them with a lot of extra work.

Semaphor 6y ago
> It's amazing how people ignore them for older tech which can only match them with a lot of extra work. a) Price. You save a huge amount of money over time. b) Ritual. I really enjoy whipping up the soap with my brush, and lathering up my face before shaving with my safety razor. c) Efficiency. If you don’t shave every day (I sometimes don’t for up to a week), cartridges get clogged way too quickly with thicker hair while my safety razor can easily handle it.
evanelias 6y ago
If you have especially curly facial hair, multi-blade razors have a tendency to yank out some hairs instead of cutting them, especially in places where some hairs grow in a different direction. This in turn causes irritation, razor bumps, ingrown hairs, etc. After using multi-blade cartridges my entire adult life, I switched to a shavette (disposable blade straight razor) a few months ago and it pretty much immediately solved all of the skin irritation issues. Plus it's massively less expensive. The downsides are it's slower and more injury-prone, admittedly.
growlist 6y ago
Idk. I switched to a safety razor and everything is better now, save for slightly worse nicks, but a shaving block takes care of that. And the cost of a cartridge (couple of quid each?) certainly is NOT better than the cost of a fresh blade in a straight razor (25p or so). Edit: old style i.e. safety razor, soap and brush is also far more environmentally friendly than new style i.e. cartridges plus foam out of a can.

Semaphor 6y ago

> It's amazing how people ignore them for older tech which can only match them with a lot of extra work. a) Price. You save a huge amount of money over time. b) Ritual. I really enjoy whipping up the soap with my brush, and lathering up my face before shaving with my safety razor. c) Efficiency. If you don’t shave every day (I sometimes don’t for up to a week), cartridges get clogged way too quickly with thicker hair while my safety razor can easily handle it.

evanelias 6y ago

If you have especially curly facial hair, multi-blade razors have a tendency to yank out some hairs instead of cutting them, especially in places where some hairs grow in a different direction. This in turn causes irritation, razor bumps, ingrown hairs, etc. After using multi-blade cartridges my entire adult life, I switched to a shavette (disposable blade straight razor) a few months ago and it pretty much immediately solved all of the skin irritation issues. Plus it's massively less expensive. The downsides are it's slower and more injury-prone, admittedly.

growlist 6y ago

Idk. I switched to a safety razor and everything is better now, save for slightly worse nicks, but a shaving block takes care of that. And the cost of a cartridge (couple of quid each?) certainly is NOT better than the cost of a fresh blade in a straight razor (25p or so). Edit: old style i.e. safety razor, soap and brush is also far more environmentally friendly than new style i.e. cartridges plus foam out of a can.