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Originally Posted by curves2000
I have been shaving with an old school, safe razor for years and the experience and the cost savings can't be beat.
The quality of the shave is much better, there should be a lot less if any irritation and the cost savings are very significant. I don't think some people really realize how significant overall compared to a Mach 3,4,5 5000 or whatever we are at now.
For those gent's who suffer from irritation, usually it's a result of taking too much skin off when shaving. We don't need 5 blades to remove some soft whiskers, we need 1. We are shaving hair off our face, not clear cutting redwood trees.
When it comes to cost savings, I won't go on a full on rant here but given that a lot of people are struggling with day to day expenses as a result of this inflationary environment, it's very important for us to have a look at our consumer staple products we all purchase daily. Ironically, the Gillette Razor and Blade business model, which pioneered over 100 years ago is the foundation for a huge amount of items we purchase. It's literally designed to extract or "slice" off more and more of our hard earned dollars for what sometimes is, essentially the same product. Innovation they call it but in reality it's costing more.
This goes to everything from electric toothbrushes, Swiffer dusters and mops, one cup coffee makers and more. It costs more, even if it's a small amount, it adds up to literally hundreds of millions in revenue more for companies like Proctor and Gamble and others.
The savings from making minor adjustments if any at all, literally add up every single time, every single day for what in essence is the rest of our lives. It's not peanuts.
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I cant say that I switched from disposables to a straight razor for the cost savings, although I guess that is a bit of a bonus, I did it because of the irritation of disposable razors among other things.
I will agree with you that the "lets just keep adding blades and jacking the price' mantra was aggravating.
It became expensive which wasnt so terrible, but it was expensive for a poor and usually painful result and that was something I couldnt abide. I had to find a better alternative.
So I figured if I was going to do that, I was going to go all the way to straight-razor.
The quality of the razor itself and the quality of the shave just cant be beat. That razor is going to last longer than me.