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Safety razor user chiming in. The only bad thing about it is that it makes flying with just a carry-on impossible. I still spend a not insignificant ~$250/yr

• conjecTech 4y ago
  That number seems incredibly high to me. The most I've seen blades go for in any kind of volume is around $0.20/blade. Even if you were discarding them every day, that would only account for $70/year. You can admittedly buy some rather nice shave soap, but $180/year still seems aggressive. I admittedly don't shave every day, but I've been using a safety razor since 2013. I went back and tallied up all of the purchases for materials, including my razor, and I believe I've spent a little over $200 for that entire period, so maybe $25/year.
  • brandonmenc 4y ago
    I buy Feather blades at around 44 cents a blade, and I use a new blade every day. I have coarse hair, so that dulls the blade faster. And shaving a whole head probably counts as like three face shaves (in terms of both blades and shaving soap.) For soap I use Proraso (which is cheap) or Taylor of Old Bond Street (unscented - they call it "organic" - which is not cheap.) In the past I stretched blades and spent far less, but the experience was not as enjoyable.
• pmoriarty 4y ago
  I spend $0 on shaving cream, because I just use regular bar soap to shave. I spent $15 on 200 double-edged safety razor blades a couple of years ago, and have used maybe 50 of them from shaving every-other-day. At this rate that $15 in blades should last me 4 years.