Thread: So I sh-(grabs armor and shield)...so I shaved with a cartridge razor today...

I felt like giving it a shot, I do on occasional since I've gotten into DE and then straight shaving.
I can get a smooth shave from a single blade BIC, so it all went fine. I didn't go as far back as using canned cream, so the shave went fine. But man just a few hours later and here's the 5' clock shadow and stubble over the jawbones already, which I'll have to touch up due to a wedding later.

Has there been a conclusion as to why the straights or aggressive DE razors give the longer-lasting shave? Do they even give you a longer lasting shave, personally?
I can only imaging a single exposed edge being able to push into the skin that little bit instead of multi-blades or plastic casing making it so that it's more dummy-proof but less deep of a cut is what accounts for this.
I've heard others say they actually feel smoother LATER after a straight shave, as do I.

Anyway, don't pelt tomatoes at me or anything, I got so many of these triple blade carts I bought on liquidation it's a shave not to experiment now and then.

Burn him!!!



Jordan

The only reason i can think shaving with a multi-blade cartridge razor doesn't last as long as a straight or D/E is that they cut the hair on an angle, the first blade pulls the hair out and the rest cut as opposed to the straight and D/E that cut flush against the skin. It could also be that since the cartridge pulls and cuts it stimulates the hair follicle more.

I'm in a similar boat. I have so many DE cartridges It's a shame not to use them so I packed my travel kits full of them. Then I loose a DE razor during a trip, it won't be such a tragedy as losing a favored straight.
Ernest

Shame on you. By now you should know better than to use a disposible to shave for an important occasion. I really don't see the point of experiementing with a shaving method that you KNOW is inferior

This is slightly off topic but Why post a new thread when This is pretty close.

Got a fusion in the mail the other day.

What should I do with it?

gift it to somebody who you know would never consider a half-way decent shave (DE), let alone a great one.... they will most likely thank you... and tell you things like "i just paid $28 for four of the cartridges"... least ways that is what happened this week to me.

YMMV

Heresy! Repent! You must do penance! Flagrance with a strop!

I can see this getting REAL ugly.....!

Blasphemer! He's heavier than a duck, that means he's a witch... Burn him! He turned me into a newt... But I got better.