Safety razors with disposable blades were introduced about 120 years ago, at one blade a day that’s a bit less than 45000 blades
Double edged blades dimensions are: 0.1mm x 42.7mm x 22mm for 98.21mm³
45 000 blades would take a volume of 4 419 450mm³ or about 270in³
A regular indoor wall is made of 2x4 and each stud is 14.5 inches apart (16 inches on center). A 2x4 is in truth 1.5" x 3.5" so each inch of height inside the wall is 3.5 x 14.5 x 1 which is 50.75in³
45 000 blades stacked perfectly would therefore use 270 / 50.75 = 5.32 inches of the wall’s height… So even if they didn’t stack perfectly, it’s pretty safe to assume that there’s enough space inside the wall for hundreds of years at one blade a day (especially since old houses usually used true 2x4 and had their studs at 24" on center)
Also, most people use blades for more than one day’s shave. I think more like 3 - 7, depending on the blade and how picky the shaver (I get more than seven shaves per blade).
Yep, just trying to show how there’s no way someone fills that wall in their lifetime
Same. I’ve gone 6 weeks on one blade if I was working from home a lot and didn’t have to shave often.
Assuming they would use the volume perfectly is a pretty big assumption, it’s likely you wouldn’t even get a tenth of that.
They would fall flat for the most part and I already addressed that in my message but thanks for telling me, you’re just the third one I think.
0.1mm seems awfully thin for a double edged blade.
It’s also unreasonable to assume they will stack anywhere close to perfectly.
My guess is you’re off by at least a factor of 20.
Number came from Feather
I already covered the “don’t stack perfectly” thing, but the vast majority would still fall flat.
While true, 1 blade a day for 120 years is also off by a factor of 20 in the other direction.
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One blade a day?!! Are you a billionaire or something? The acceptable signal to replace the razor is when the pain from the dull blade pulling your hairs makes your eye watery, and then you try to man up for a couple more shaves before accepting defeat and put in a fresh blade.
It’s an exaggeration to show how long it would take to fill a wall
Those old school blades are cheap as chips though.
The acceptable signal to replace the razor is when the pain from the dull blade pulling your hairs makes your eye watery
Sounds like a blade a day to me.
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Orangutans aren’t supposed to shave.
For some reason I read th his in the vouce od Dara Ó Brian. “It goes into the waaal.”
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A small blade safe can hold hundreds of blades and it’s like 4"x3"x3". Makes sense they thought the inside of drywall 5’x3’x1’ would be fine. It can probably hold tens of thousands. Even with a new blade daily that’s decades. And when you tear down the wall you’re dealing with Sheetrock, nails and screws already. All that time would have dulled the incredibly thin blades.
This is all to say: it seems wild but was a decent idea.
yeah I have one that’s a few inches cubed for 6 years now and it’s nowhere near full.
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Hundreds of thousands
I use those blades in present day.
When I put in a new blade, I keep the wax paper wrapper, then rewrap the discarded blade in said wax paper before discarding it.
Give or take twelve years into this endeavor, I’ve had zero issues with this system.
Safety razors are great! They’re way cheaper than “conventional” (3, 4, 5 blade) razor blades. They shave a lot closer, and you can get a variety of different grades of blades to fit your comfort level.
The only reason the expensive multi-blade disposable razor cartridge became popular was because Gillette enshitified their razors to maximize profit.
I have really enjoyed the experience and cannot imagine going back to disposables that get guarded more securely than fort Knox and require a credit application to purchase.
I do not, however, generally go about the general population proselytizing about it. Those people annoy me.
It’s simply a solid shave for an affordable price.
I have this (I am sure irrational) fear that if I use a safety razor, I will cut the shit out of myself. Which, I realize, goes against the word ‘safety’ in the name.
You’ll cut yourself in the beginning, but once you get the angle and pressure right it’s quick and easy.
You have to shave lighter. Once you get used to it, they work incredibly well.
With a 3-5 mini razor Mach something, you can push pretty hard before you cut yourself.
Safety razors it’s much lighter touch but it still shaves very close. I bought one of these 10 years ago and it’s still going strong. Safety razors are cheap to buy and once you get used to it, works just as well if not better.
You do have to be a little more delicate because it is easier to cut yourself but it doesn’t take long to get a feel for it. I doubt I cut myself any more than I did with a 4 blade cartridge.
I’ll have to try to get over my fear and try it. How does it do when you haven’t shaved in a few days? Because I’m very lazy about that.
It takes a few weeks for your face to get used to being shaved by a safety razor but once it is, my god.
It’s like the MSPaint Erase Tool in real life. I used to do electric razor only going over and over and over
Now it’s like almost pornographic how easy it is to shave – one swipe down, two, three, four… half the face is hairless.
Four swipes left, left side is hairless.
Four swipes under the moustache and bam.
Highly recommended getting over the beginner’s curve, watch some YouTube videos but here’s a Linux primer on how to do it:
- Fill shaving cream bowl or basin with warm (not hot water).
- Allow horsehair brush to soak in basin for 1-5 minutes.
- Shake excess water off the brush
- Add about half a toothpaste brush amount of shaving cream to the basin, stir into a rich lather, consistency of yogurt. If it’s foaming up/running there’s too much water. I recommend PRORASO, Menthol (Refresh). One $10 tube lasts 3-6 months. Extremely cost effective.
- Run some warm/hot water on a very low pour from sink. This is used to wash hair off your razor between passes.
- Sterilize your safety razor with a 55-75% isopropyl alcohol spray. This is optional but prevents any kind of infections, because these razors basically slice open everything including pimples.
- Lather up your face. Sides, bottom, moustache, whatever.
- Don’t apply excess/heavy pressure, these razors are extremely sharp. Go down in a stripe, flip razor over, do another stripe. Down cuts hair, holding at a mild angle, across (left right) cuts your skin, so never try to slide the razor across your face.
- Go slow, practice, once your face is used to it, it becomes second nature and shaving is 10× more pleasurable and convenient than those disposable razors or whatever.
- It’s good enough that I recommend it to other people. I’m a man, few things make me actually feel like a man more than a good/proper shave.
If you use an electric beard trimmer to cut the long stubble down first it works better. Any razor does, but especially safety razors, since there’s only one cutting blade per side and when it’s clogged with longer hairs must be fully cleaned out for a perfect shave.
That generally is what I do, but there are still a lot of long hairs that the trimmer doesn’t catch.
Much better than a multi-blade cartridge in that regard. It doesn’t get clogged with hair.
That’s one area where safety razors are the clear winner. Multi-blade cartridges tend to get “clogged” by long hair. Safety razors don’t.
I probably shave once a week unless I have someplace to be. I can make a full pass, flip it over and make another with no problem. The hair just rinses right out.
Nice. Thanks!
As someone whose grandfather was a carpenter for Gillette in Massachusetts from after WWII until a few years before his death, I’ve got to say that while i use safety razors because of the price, I do get a far superior shave in less time with the “fuck everything it, we’re doing five blades” (basically the 3+ blades modern razors). I just don’t like having to take out a second mortgage for refills.
Could it be that the blade + razor aggressiveness combo you were using is not equivalent to a cartridge razor? Personally with a nice blade and 1960s Gillette Slim Adjustable on the higher settings it gets insanely close even going with the grain, much closer than I’ve gotten with plastic cartridge options.
The little plastic magazine my DE blades come in have a little slot in the back for used blades, just slide them in and then when the magazine is empty chuck the whole thing. Wrankles me a little bit that the steel is ending up in a landfill, but most things you put in the recycle bin does too because society doesn’t work, so.
On the other hand, it’s not 6 blades at a time, the handle, and the little slimy strip thing.
why not return it to a slot on pakaging? isn’t it there for that purpose?
front:
and back
Because the blades I get aren’t packaged this way. Is that a reusable outer package? I’ve never seen anything like that.
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Actually these are standard, run of the mill, cheapest ones.
Wilkinson is like budget alternative to glide in safety razor category, You can usually get this packaging with this cheap plastic handle:
Those are my favorite blades
I replied to another comment with the same question that I have never encountered this packaging. I get a cardboard box. Sometimes the blades inside are subdivided into little plastic capsules of five, sometimes they’re just stacked in the box. But that slot is entirely new to me.
Sorry missed that one,.
My contry is just on the beggining of environmental awakening so most stuff is plastic packaging.
i just got these exact razors in the UK, but some blades such as Astras come in cardboard packaging
Ooh,
yea we’re few decades behind on environmental stuff here south.
That sort of packaging is only on the blades that are more expensive than the blades the price conscious commenters have been quoting the cost of
I have Dorco Prime blades that come in that kind of packaging. It was $11 for a pack of 100.
I just put mine in an empty tin. It’ll take forever to fill it up, and once you do, just tape it up and put it in metal recycling.
Been ‘wet shaving’ since I started shaving a very long time ago and never stopped. When the blade slots went away in the back of the medicine cabinets in every bathroom, I made a blade bank from a steel can with a lid that I cut a slot in. I takes me years to fill it.
***For those too young to have seen it. The medicine cabinet in every bathroom used to have a slot in the back of it to drop used razor blades into when they got dull. The would simply fall in between the studs in the wall and pretty much just rust away since the blade back then were made of plain high carbon steel. I remember helping to do several bathroom remodels and when pulling the cabinet and the plaster and lath wall, we would find a small pile of rusted to nearly dust razor blades.
I try to remember to use the old paper, but usually I despose of them in a cardboard toilet paper roll with one end pinched shut.
That’s a good idea also!
I also use a can.
Get yourself a blade bank and put your used blades in it. They are a cheap and safe way to dispose of your razor blades.
Does the bank give me interest? Otherwise I am not interested.
Yeah, but they do sometimes take a cut off the top.
The little boxes they come in usually come with a little slot to dispose of the old razors. I just put the used and unwrapped razors into that.
I have not encountered such packaging. What brand do you use?
I usually buy Feather but I’ve seen it on plenty of other brands!
I put all my used ones in a clear pill bottle. Plan is to burn them in the next campfire I have so that they never enter the waste stream.
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You’re joking, right?
Why would I be joking? Razor blades will oxidize into nothing in a fire
That’s brilliant! We should burn all of our garbage so nothing enters the environment!
I’m not suggesting burning all trash, I’m suggesting burning a miniscule amount of steel to avoid the risk it poses to human and animal life. It turns into iron oxide (RUST). The fire pit ring itself will have about 100x as much of it.
Sharps disposal literally exists for this reason
Steel would also office without fire
Where do you think the rust goes in either case?
I literally don’t have sharps disposal available to me. The rust will mix with the ash and become dispersed harmlessly into the soil. Look at an iron ore mine and you will see millions of tons of iron oxide, because that’s how iron is usually found in nature.
Why not just use the new wrapper for the old blade? That way you don’t need to keep the wrapper until you throw the blade away
That’s what I do. I suppose I didn’t articulate that well.
I do it a little bit differently in keeping the very first wrapper so that when I get to the very last blade, there’s a wrapper to put it in.
Minute variations, same end results.
If you don’t replace a blade until you have a replacement blade, why not just presume you’ll shave forever and use the wrapper from the next?
I did stop shaving for years and when I went back to shaving and replaced the old blade, and wrapped it in the replacement blade’s wrapper
What are you going to wrap the last blade in if you forget to buy new ones?
Just keep it in the razor, you can’t change it anyway.
Why wrap it until you’ve bought new blades? Unless you’re planning to stop shaving for years, in which case the blade might rust.
Painter’s tape.
This is where that saying “one is none” comes in. Have enough blades. Buy more well before you run out
I thought thats what’s you’re supposed to do. Wrap the blade in the wax wrap it came in, then break it up by bending it in the wax before throwing it away in the trash (still in the wax).
Ngl, this sounds like the premise to a GREAT horror show, like American Horror Story. :-P
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It’s a pretty big area back there and razors are very small. It would take decades or maybe evenover a hundred years of regular use before it is likely to fill up. The building could even be condemned or otherwise destroyed before it’s full.
But yes, if it did somehow fill up, you would need to remove the tiles and cut a section out of the wall to empty it. That’s not so big a deal if you only have to do it every 50+ years.
Who cares, it takes hundreds of years of daily razors to fill the gap and by that time your line will probably have sold the home or ended
Exactly. By the time it’s full it won’t be your problem!
Problem solved!
It just dumps out to the empty space in the wall all the way to the floor, it would take a very very long time to fill that up to where it’s “full”, you’d have to fill the wall to that height in a wide area near the hole
I’ve come across one or two walls full of blades doing basement renos.
Why were the walls doing renos?
What else will they do with all those blades?
Fuckin razor blades. Where do they go?
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Wet shaving is still very much a thing; in fact in the last decade or so, it’s had a renaissance of sorts (tho it was probably re-gaining popularity already in the early 00’s). I’ve been a wet shaver for 2.5 years but decided to buy me an electric shaver because these days I have less time for wet shaving. It can done be quickly but what’s the point if you’ve got to rush it. Links for those who got curious:
https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/
It can done be quickly but what’s the point if you’ve got to rush it
Yep a good shave needs time and most of all four passes: first with the grain, that’s for the colleagues, second two at right angles to the grain, that’s for your lover, and the fourth one against the grain, for personal satisfaction.
OTOH if you know what you’re doing a quick and dirty shave is just as good as an electric one and you don’t have to deal with batteries. If a short buzz cut is all you want do that.
The whole setup is a bit of a bother if you’re new but basic guidelines:
- Shower. Well you don’t 100% need to but dry skin and shaving don’t mix well so do it before.
- A whisk and bowl, a cheap synthetic whisk is just fine the natural hair ones are a bugger to deal with anyway (have to take care to dry them properly etc), 5-10 bucks for the whisk, 25ct for the bowl in the euro store they came in a 4-pack, really tiny stainless ones. The rest I use for mise en place.
- Shaving cream/soap. Don’t think you’ll get away with using those self-foaming gels in a can they clog the razor, don’t glide well, and I’ve never come across one that’s nice to the skin. Comes in bar or tube form, some are better at gliding some smell better if you’re lucky you get both, I’d put the palmolive shaving cream on #1 as “what to get when you don’t know what you want”: Glides very well, dirt cheap, forgiving when whisking, like a bit over a buck a tube.
- The actual foam: This is going to take some trial+error, you want extra water in it but don’t make it a soup, you want fine bubbles and proper shaving cream/soap will make them have standing power (though if you’re in a pinch you can use regular soap, no biggie). It should be nice and sloppy, with two 'c’s. If in doubt, whisk more. Apply, then let soak, make coffee or something. Oh, some people don’t use a bowl to whisk but do it directly on the skin. IMO they’re madmen, it’s like brewing tea in your mouth, but you do you.
- The razor. Lots could be said about geometry, about different comb sizes, ultra-fancy blade change mechanisms, long story short buy a Merkur 23C, 30-40 bucks, chrome-plated zinc and brass. Good weight, excellent general-purpose geometry, inexpensive, literally unchanged for a hundred years. You might be tempted to cheap out and get a Wilkinson they sell cheap plastic holders that take standard razor blades but trust me the only reason why they’re selling them is to make people believe standard razor blades suck.
- The blades. Feather is the creme de la creme and might be just a bit too sharp for some, and also comparatively pricey. Russian manufacturers generally are good but given the situation let’s boycott them, many western producers have spotty quality, that leaves BIC. Yes, the guys who also make lighters, ballpoint pens and surfboards. Bonus: Carton/wax paper packaging, if you re-wrap used blades and put them back in the carton you can toss them in the bin, no worries. How long a blade lasts depends on many factors, the biggest of which is your personal preference. But even if you buy feather blades and use a new one every day you’ll still end up spending less money than using a cartridge system.
- Shaving: See the very top. Be aware of the grain, flip the razor over to wear the blades evenly, occasionally rinse it in the sink, you’ll figure it out. Avoid being silly: Don’t move the thing sideways over the skin that’s how you cut yourself. The geometry of the razor will tell you the right angle, just let it lead. Always make sure there’s good gliding going on, never tolerate resistance. Make funny faces to get skin into places where it’s easier to shave, make it taught, etc. It’s an ancient, secret art, traditionally transmitted from father to son, with a break in tradition you’ll have to rediscover it for yourself.
- Cold (not ice cold) rinse. A very good way to wake up.
- Aftershave, a deeply personal matter. Generally speaking you want an astringent to stop any bleeding (also micro bleeds you can’t see) and a disinfectant and something nice for the skin, my personal recipe is first alumina alum, rinse, then a bog-standard random face wash from the discounter, says aloe vera. The alum will burn worse than an aftershave with alcohol could ever burn but once you rinse it’s over and I don’t want to sit there with a slightly burning face for half the morning. As said: Deeply personal matter. Use whisky if you want I don’t care.
Thanks for sharing the instructions with folks here. As I said above, I’ve been a traditional wet shaver for two and a half years, so I pretty much know all this. However, wet shaving takes a lot of time for me and for various physical reasons and limitations, I cannot spend a long time shaving. I’ve learned how to speed up the process, but this means sloppier technique and it shows on my skin. At this point I want to give my skin a break by having a short stubble rather than going for BBS (that stands for BaBy Smooth) every single time. 😄 I don’t mean to scare people away from traditional wet shaving, I’m just speaking for myself, who happens to have some motor function problems etc. If you’re fairly “normal”, there should be no reason not to try traditional wet shaving. It’s a treat and something to look forward to every single time.
That sounds like shaving with extra steps.
Right?
The cherry on top is that this whole ritual is to save someone the hassle of “having to deal with batteries”. The horror!
I’m not doubting that it’s a more rewarding experience, but it always cracks me up when proponents of an obviously more laborious process in anything also feel the need to act like it’s easier too.
It’s like baking your own bread, making your own pickles, building your own wooden furniture, or making any number of dishes “from scratch”. Sure it’s probably better in the end, but that’s after buying a bunch of stuff, going through a significantly longer and more tricky process, and often after making mistakes and building an entire new skill set.
For most people, all it will become is a lesson in why they preferred the original path of convenience in the first place.
The cherry on top is that this whole ritual is to save someone the hassle of “having to deal with batteries”. The horror!
You missed the “a quick and dirty [wet] shave is just as good as an electric one” part, didn’t you. In both cases I’m partly scratchy by noon and fully scratchy come evening. A good wet shave will be about as good in the evening as a quick or electric one is once I get to work.
For most people, all it will become is a lesson in why they preferred the original path of convenience in the first place.
If the convenient path gives you a result you’re happy with then take it. There’s a reason I put “personal satisfaction” as a step after “for your lover”.
I don’t even shave that often. But when I do, I do it properly. I also don’t make Ragout Bolognese that often but when I do, I do it properly. If that offends you then I can’t help you, either.
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Personally, I will start this when I retire. Right now, I do go to a straight razor shave once a month. Just because it’s nice. Personal care.
You missed the “a quick and dirty [wet] shave is just as good as an electric one” part, didn’t you.
I didn’t miss it, I just didn’t feel it was worth it to point out how obviously wrong it was.
Sure they might give equivalent results, but one is significantly faster, easier, and less hassle than the other.
I’ve done both kinds of shave and there’s no arguing that a wet shave gives the superior results…but pretending that it’s not a lot more fuss and effort is just ridiculous.
I’m here to defend pickles!
We use a quick-pickle recipe, we can make six to eight big jars in under two hours. Even using mediocre cucumbers, they’re WAYYYY better than anything you can buy in stores. You get jars of slices, spears, little pickles if ya want… Pickle diversity! Way less money, too.
The rest of the things you’ve listed I agree with.
Once more, with feeling…
I’m not saying it’s not more rewarding, better quality, etc.
But it’s not easier than just buying a damn jar of pickles when you’re at the store.
I make them and buy them, I garden my own cucumbers specifically to make them. I’ve made quick ones, slow ones, garlic ones, spicy ones…it’s not hard…
…but I’m not going to pretend it’s faster or easier than buying a jar from the fucking supermarket.
Because it’s not.
Jeez dude
All of the other things require so much more effort and time for similar results.
Pickles take not much time and effort and are insanely better and less expensive than picking up a jar at the store.
I never claimed it’s faster or easier, I’m just saying it doesn’t take anywhere near as much time or effort to make infinitely better pickles than to make bread, shave using a safety razor, MAKING FURNITURE?! etc.
I don’t know why you’re so defensive, it’s just… I love good pickles, and they’re easy to make. It’s not in the same world as the other stuff ya listed.
Yes! I’ve been growing some hot peppers recently and throwing some of those in with the pickles is amazing if you’re into spice.
I use Merkur shaver with Cremo cream. Here’s my process:
turn faucet on until hot water running. Wet face. Apply cream. Shave. Rinse and dry
It literally isn’t different from shaving with a cartridge except a better shave, more pleasant, and cheaper. OK, it probably takes 10 seconds extra to change the blade vs popping cartridge, but that’s it
I shaved with an electric for a couple years, bad shaves and bad skin
I mentioned this elsewhere but unless you have sensitive skin you should be able to use a safety razor pretty much like a 3 or 5 blade, ie without a ton of prep. Pretty much wet your face, apply cream (although I haven’t tried it with the cheap foam stuff bc I stopped using those awhile ago), and go to town.
If you want to make it a whole thing it will probably get you a super close shave in the end, but if your goal is just to shave before work it should work fine in the same amount of time as the multi-blades. I’ve never had much luck with an electric-- I’ve got pretty thick hair and electrics inevitably pull at some of my hairs instead of cutting (I’ve never tried a high end electric though), so discovering safety razors was great for me.
You’re completely right, I described shaving with the extra steps of figuring out what to buy and why to buy it as well as showering and making coffee. I even briefly touched on cooking.
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How do you know someone is wet shaving? They will tell you about it. Like eating vegan, doing crossFit and barefoot running.
Surely better than in your foot?
Where do they go? To the Oubliette.
What’s an Oubliette?
French, oublier: “to forget” or “to loose”. Also a medieval torture device. Look it up at your own risk.
Its like a solitary confinement torture dungeon, but worse. Its a narrow pit below the dungeon where they toss people who are condemned to death. Too narrow to sit or lie down, even if your legs got broken when or before you were thrown in. All sorts of shit piss gore and blood get tossed in too. Probably other harmful junk like live rats and broken glass. There is no return, and they dont clear out the previous tenant or remnants thereof before the next one is moved in.
That explains a number of things. I thought it was fancy landlord talk for French Style Studio Apartment.
No wonder my rent was so below market rate.
Ask Hoggle. Labyrinth’s full of ‘em.
Curious as to why this fell out of fashion?
The used razor blades were arming the rats who were also in the wall.
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Yeah that’s some bad mojo
Probably because the metal razor blades fell out of fashion first. This setup doesn’t work with throwaway razors and mach 3 pro extra plus whatever systems.
I recently got into shaving with a safety razor and I don’t know why I ever bought expensive 3 or 5 blade heads from gilette or whatever. Despite what some enthusiast shaving communities might make it out to be it’s really no more difficult using the single blades and it’s way way cheaper.
Gillette knew stacking more and more blades would bring out some primal urge in men. They saw their pals rocking 3 blade heads and knew they must get the 5 blade version to one up them.
I think I remember a (SNL?) sketch from back when 2 blades were the norm and maybe there were some 3 blades starting to come out with an ad for like a 17 blade product.
The third blade prevents the hair from snapping back and injuring you.
Oh yeah, thats the one for sure. The Onion predicting the future again!
I tried it a couple of times and my face got torn up something awful. I switched back to the Gillette multi blades, but now I take care of them and dry them well. I have sensitive face skin but thick beard hair and it didn’t like single razors.
Ah that’s too bad. I have thick hair as well but I guess my skin isn’t too sensitive. It also seems like it’s a sharper shave than the multiblades, but maybe that’s because I didn’t use to change them enough bc they were so expensive. At least it’s easier to get hair out of it when it’s just one blade.
I used a single blade disposable once in a pinch a long time ago and I guess wasn’t careful enough and cut pretty deeply into my cheek.
A blade tugs at the hairs before cutting them off. That pulls them out of the skin a tiny bit. The first blade pulls them out, the second grips them before they retract, and cuts them off lower. It makes a noticeable difference. The third blade makes a very tiny difference. After that, it’s marketing. (Should I look up studies to cite?)
In my experience, electric gives the cleanest shave. In the long run it’s cheaper, too.
I’ve never had an electric that feels good–maybe bc I have really thick hairs it always has some places that get yanked instead of cut. Cost wise I guess electric’s pretty cheap in the long run but you can get single razor blades for about 10 cents so it’s also pretty cheap
In my experience I get a much better shave with a DE than a disposable razor. It’s also much cheaper and reduces waste significantly. Cartridge razors are a scam.
Not just hotels, but regular homes too.
Yep, a hole in the medicine cabinet.
Yep, my house is over 100 years old and has one in the medicine cabinet.
My old apartment had one int the bathroom medicine cabinet, and that building was built in 1974.
If I had this in my home, I would draw a face around this “mouth”.
come feed me used blades
A hole in a steamy bathrooms wall where you dispose wet things full of human skin cells sounds like a mold-hotel.
And if there are kids around, they put everything small enough inside.Bathroom medicine cabinets are generally out of reach of children
