Originally Posted by
gugi
First I must say that I'm partial to natural materials - bone/horn/ivory/mop/wood/badger... ops, scratch that hairy one :)
As Ilija said celuloid will eventually rot (but may be not even in your grandchildren's time) and the only celuloid I would justify is vintage art nouveau and art deco.
I think another great option these days is micarta - if i remeber it's linen based very dense composite which has a feel similar to wood. Some very respected razor restorers prefer it as much as to have it on most of their daily shavers.
my first choice would probably be some other wood, second horn, third micarta