On 11/01/11 11:14, JW wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:52:08 -0000, John wrote:
"Bob wrote in message
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:15:26 -0800, Man at B&Q wrote:
On Jan 10, 5:01 pm, John wrote:
On Jan 10, 2:57 pm, "sweetheart"hotmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I need to find out what sort of electric shaver might be good for my
father. he is 88 years old and getting to cut himself a bit with a
razor. he uses a Gillette Turbo at the moment. As he keeps cutting
himself I wondered if an electric might be better? he used to use an
electric shaver when I was a child - a Rolls make , that goes back a
few years to the 1950's/60's I reckon. he liked it but didn't find a
suitable replacement after and went on to wet shave.
I was looking at the TV ads for the Braun ( the one that says you
can shave off a weekend beard) but there are several of them and I
don't know which to get. Not knowing much about mens shaving I am a
bit stuck Has anyone got one of those shavers who might be able to
tell me which is best?
Thanks for any advice.
Oh dear, sexist again -- as if women didn't use electric razors :-)
Seriously, though, no electric razor designed for use on the face is
going to be much use with growth longer than a couple of millimetres.
More utter tosh about electric razors. It's funny, I don't have any
problems at all when I occasionally grow a comedy beard to amuse the
kids or a moustache for Movember.
The real point is that faces and beards vary. Some work best with wet
shaving, some better with foils, some with rotaries...
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Use the BIG mirror service in the UK:
http://www.mirrorservice.org
*lightning protection* - a w_tom conductor
All need a bit of patience to get your beard used to them.
Very true. One other big issue with electric shavers is that it's an
expensive mistake when you buy the wrong one. It's not really the sort of
thing that you can go into a shop and try a load out. I bought the wet/dry
Philishave system with the gels. At the time it was about £120. I didn't
get on with it, and so had effectively wasted £120. Still got it somewhere.
I must have used it perhaps 50 times.
It takes several weeks for the facial skin to recover from 'scrape
shaving' to the point where a rotary becomes truly effective. I've used
philishaves for about sixty years now since I was a Philips apprentice
in 1953. I tried and experienced several of 'the others' during barrack
room sharing doing National Service but the Philips was always the
fastest and by far the quietest. Nowadays my daily shave takes about a
minute including cleaning the shaver using a wet &/or dry Nivea for Men
version.
http://shop.philips.com/store?Action...ctID=146733800
http://shop.philips.com/store?Action=DisplayProductDetailsPage&Locale=en_G B&SiteID=rpeeub2c&productID=146733800