If it helps any, I find with any of my milder DEs that the shave will not last as long as with the Muhle R41 current model. So I don't think in that sense, at least for me, that the milder razors will do just as good a job. Safer is a relative thing too and you can cut yourself with a mild razor too, trust me.

No matter what you do you always seem to wind up with more than one of anything. Well, at least I do anyway.

Bob