Gillette razors, how many blades is enough???

jester77

... and I thought 3 was enough..

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/09/15/and_then_there_were_five/

Would hate to see the price of these?? Think I will wait for 8 blades though!!

Hobbes

I recall Saturday night live doing a skit on this. The optimum number of blades is 14.

Catsmokinpot

mach 3 is crap one blade lasts me two shaves max, i started using one of these recently
cut throat

ambro25

Two blades, really, just like on a mk2 French guillotine, circa 1790: one to cut the head off, the other to prevent re-growth...

fjon

What's wrong with the yellow disposable Bic razors? One blade, and dirt cheap.

MorningStar

If you shave too closely it actually causes in-grown hairs. Hairs get stuck in the blades too and then scratch your skin.
I am getting to the point that I will stop using disposible blades anymore. The amount of packing and materials is just making the environmental cost huge. That razor is going to be around for 1000 years and beyond.

impr0v

fjon wrote:

What's wrong with the yellow disposable Bic razors? One blade, and dirt cheap.

i gave up using disposables and went mechanical a long time ago but before i did, these basic razors were by far the best. One blade is optimum, everything else is marketing.

KdjaCL

fjon wrote:

What's wrong with the yellow disposable Bic razors? One blade, and dirt cheap.

Massive bloodloss?


Mach 3 mp3 power turbo HF integrally does me fine , get about 2 months out of each blade shave every 3 days or weeks.


kdjac

Blisterman

Someone should come out with the 7 blade razor soon. They'll be one step ahead of everyone else.

ambro25

KdjaC wrote:

shave every 3 days or weeks.

You slow-growers lot are lucky, lucky, lucky SOBs.

I've gotta wet shave every day, twice if I go out at night :mad:

Blisterman

Takes us forever to grow a beard though.

Mossy Monk

shaving is such a pleasure, why are you giving out about the wet shave every day

po0k

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ambro25

Mossy Monk wrote:

shaving is such a pleasure, why are you giving out about the wet shave every day

Because I don't find it "such a pleasure"? :rolleyes:

murfie

Anyone see ch4 last night gillette razors are the most shoplifted item EVER!!!! they said something like 22 or 23 % get stolen off the shelves! :eek:

i prefer my electric razer personally, and its also got the pushy up thingy for the trimming bit, what would i do without it!

Blisterman

Is that why Tesco keep them locked up at the checkouts?

grumpytrousers

the onion got there first

Sleepy

Use the Wilkinson Sword Quatro myself since i got it free with an FHM. Blades last way longer than the mach3 ones and it gives a much closer shave without leaving shaving rash. Have wanted to get a cut-throat for years but have never really gotten around to it.

Don't understand how anyone could use an electric razor, from my experience they just don't work!

Sleepy

murfie wrote:

Anyone see ch4 last night gillette razors are the most shoplifted item EVER!!!! they said something like 22 or 23 % get stolen off the shelves! :eek:

And so well they might be given the outrageous prices they charge for them!

Sleipnir

Blisterman wrote:

Is that why Tesco keep them locked up at the checkouts?

The number one item shoplifters go for. Small and high value.

stevenmu

Just wait till they team up with Intel, pretty soon we'll have razors with 3.2 giga-blades.

grumpytrousers

Number 2 (at least at the Tesco on Prussia Street) being pregnancy tests kits.

You do not need to know how i know this....

aidan_walsh

Hobbes wrote:

I recall Saturday night live doing a skit on this. The optimum number of blades is 14.

Apparently (according to a different sketch), its 16.

Heh, this reminds me of the Gilette 3000 (developed in conjunction with NASA), from an old (Australian) Late Show sketch a decade or so ago. With a record 16 blades, and up to 5 lubricating strips!

From the Late Show:

Quote:

The first blade distracts the hair, while the second and third blades sneak up behind it, cutting off any escape routes. The fourth and fifth blades attempt to coax the hair from its hiding place using modern counselling techniques while the sixth blade, posing as a passing motorist, acts as a decoy, allowing the seventh and eighth blades to swoop down and quickly overpower the hair. The ninth blade, disguised as a postman, administers a small dose of chloroform, allowing blades 10 through 13 to remove the hair and escort it away for further questioning. The 14th blade informs the hair of its rights. The 15th blade handles the paperwork and the 16th blade, well, it's just along for the ride.

And it's only the cost of a 20 year mortgage to buy a replacement pack of blades.

Also, somewhat scarily, The Onion predicted this razor in Feb of 2004...

maidhc

They did a similar sketch on Henderson's History of the World on Radio 1 a year or two ago.

Its pathetic that a there is even a demand for such a pointless instrument as a razor with 5 blades. The people who buy this (and Mach3 and Mach3 Power razors) deserve to be fleeced.

Sometime they will realise that really there isnt much wrong with an electric razor shave, and a shave with a cheap Bic razor is damn good.