On Monday, September 15, 2014 11:02:03 AM UTC-4, dpb wrote:
On 09/15/2014 9:50 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:

On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 10:42:13 -0400, Joe

wrote:

In , wrote:

On 09/14/2014 6:57 PM, Joe Gwinn wrote:

I had been shaving using a Schick "Quattro" razor (suggested by Iggy)

with Gillette "Edge" shaving cream.

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The steel content is all those razor blades.

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Schick quit making refill cartridges for the variety (forget the

advertising name for it) some time ago and the ridiculously expensive

and bulky alternatives now available were totally unpalatable to me so

I've reverted to the single blade double-edge safety razor of yore (not

_quite_ back to the straight razor started with ). With it and a

Wilkinson blade (metal) with either Barbasol or Noxema aerosol foam it's

as good as the multi-edge as far as I can tell (or at least care about)...



I used to use the Barbasol as well. I should try it again.



I do think that the two close-spaced blades razors do work better than

the single-blade razors (Trac 2 being the prototype), but I would

hazard that the difference between four close blades and five close

blades is hard to discern. Maybe the three-blade is noticeably better

than two-blade, but I wonder if the difference is worthwhile.



Maybe I'll try the Wilkinson razor, if the experiment isn't too

expensive.



Joe Gwinn



FWIW, I gave up on Edge a couple of decades ago It's nice and smooth,

but it really jams up a 2+ blade razor in a hurry, and the blades

don't get close enough for a good shave after that.



I'm currently using a cheap, two-blade Gilette "Good News" razor, with

Barbasol. I also have a 30-year-old bar of Williams soap that gets

used when I'm out of Barasol. And I have two straight razors, which I

haven't used since I had a beard, 20 years ago.



I've tried two, three, four, and five-blade razors. The more blades

they have, the more I like them, even though the four- and five-blade

types drag a bit. But they're too damned expensive to make any sense.



I wasn't able to even find a 2-blade-only alternative locally;

everything on the shelves here I could find was 4+ and ridiculously

expensive plus so humongously bulky I'd never use it.



I also have have difficulty with even the two blades with jamming;

likely because much of my beard is roughly the texture and diameter of

"bob-wahr" altho it seems to be somewhat less with advancing

years...maybe white isn't as tough as brown??? vbg



The expense factor is night 'n day...one can find good, used safety

razors if don't still have one for $10 and under including shipping and

Barbasol from the Dollar General is quite frequently on sale at half of

their discount so often it's only 50-cents for the regular can...

Yeah, I guess knock-offs are good if you can find them, or maybe its the real thing. I just find plain old warm soap lather the best.

I guess you can trust the 99 cent stores after all.