Thread: Gillette PR

It's funny but I got away from carts for two reasons, 1) they irritated me so badly that not a day went by that I didn't have blood on my collar and not from cuts, just from irritation! 2) they were so expensive.

Since I took up DE shaving and then moved to straights, I can get a reasonably irritation free shave from a cart. Do I enjoy the experience? No! Have they come down in price? No!

The other main point that seems to be forgotten is environmental impact! How many of those carts are in a land fill that needn't be? Don't get me started on the one cart = one month nonsense. If I didn't change mine every week I wouldn't have a face left to shave.

Still you have to think that maybe we are getting to them, but I would have thought the bigger threat would be DE shavers. I think they outnumber straight users.

In most parts of the developed world Electrics are the choice. The U.S is kind of the last bastion of blade shaving. When you get to third world countries that's where most of your DE shavers are. That's why most of your DE blades are manufactured in out of the way places.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

In most parts of the developed world Electrics are the choice. The U.S is kind of the last bastion of blade shaving. When you get to third world countries that's where most of your DE shavers are. That's why most of your DE blades are manufactured in out of the way places.

I hadn't considered that as the reason for the blades being manufactured there, I always assumed it was because of production costs. Here in the UK wet shaving is still pretty popular. At least with the people I know. Most of them still use cartridge or disposable I have convinced one friend to venture away from carts and he is a keen DE or SE user now.