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So...I've watched a lot of Youtubers rep these brands. Are they any good? I usually just buy an ordinary Gillette razor at my local grocery store, heck! I even have a Sweeney Todd style straight edge razor. My point is that I'm old school as F*CK and I'd love to know about these modern things. I'm not that old but I consider my self an old soul.

Just help me out with this okay? I already did my research but I want to know from you, lovely people of SMF!

Welcome to SMF, CCoates23!

This is a forum of wetshavers who typically use more traditional shaving tools. In the past, we have had a minority of members who used cartridge razors, but we may not have any active members who use the newer tools that you reference. Hopefully, someone here will have some relevant experience to share.

- Murray

Welcome! Sadly I doubt you'll find anyone here would admit to using anything called 'Manscaped'! We prefer to shear a badger, make some soap, hone our straights and enjoy shaving bliss of a kind utterly unknown to the Manscaped. At the least, I hope you'll consider using a DE safety razor, but if you end up with DSC or Manscaped products, please feel free to review them here.

Chris

You should give those others a try to see how you like them. In answer to your question as to whether these are good, I say yes, their success proves they're pretty darn good at doing what they do.

You've seen the videos, so you know there are huge numbers of folks out there happily using these brands on a daily basis - in addition to your own use of the Gillette razors from the grocery store - which is just fine.

To each his/her own. Virtually everyone shaves, and there are a number of different styles and designs of currently manufactured razors being sold and used around the world. Razors are pretty durable, which means there are millions of old razors still in use after many years of service and many previous owners. Currently produced replacement blades are plentiful.

By the way, have you had occasion to use your straight razor?

drmoss_ca wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 3:26 am ... Sadly I doubt you'll find anyone here would admit to using anything called 'Manscaped'! ...

Chris

Then there's that ...

- Murray

I don't get it!

Gary, I take it you don't know what "manscaping" is. It is the shaving off of pubic and/or other body hair.

Norelco makes an electric shaver specifically for this purpose (though it can also be accomplished via wetshave). They advertise that it can give you "an extra optical inch."

Beyond that, I offer no further explanation, but I'm pretty sure you get it now.

- Murray

Thanks Murray, that was way more than I would have guessed.

Gary has led a sheltered life. I'd refer you to Corey Greenberg's piece on shaveblog about it, but he seems to have dismantled the site.

I blame porn. Seriously, not joking. Ubiquitous porn available to youngsters (weren't the tattered magazines passed from one to another at school more fun?) has demonstrable effects on what they think people should look like, and what sex ought to be like. It appears to be giving them the wrong idea.

Chris, I do not doubt for one minute that the ubiquity of information or what passes for information on the Internet is driving all sorts of people to wonder what is normal anymore. It seems that everyone on Facebook seems to be having more fun, taking more vacations, has more 'friends' and now, everyone shaves 'down there'.

Well-stated, Sam. "the ubiquity of information or what passes for information on the Internet" is a complete waste of human interest and interaction.

A couple of years ago when I formerly and regrettably visited the popular social network, someone had posted a self-pitying sad song about how he or she used to have "hundreds" of friends, until suddenly for absolutely no reason at all (of course) nobody cared about some unidentified event that had occurred, leaving him or her only one "true" friend who had made an effort to console him or her on the social network. Boo-hoo, lost all of the hundreds of imaginary friends.

I, in my sometimes overly sarcastic way, pointed out that only a paranoid schizophrenic, a Hollywood celebrity, or a stuffed-shirt self-centered entertainer / intellectual / politician would imagine that vast legions of complete strangers around the world are either personal friends or, more likely, enemies, but in reality totally indifferent. Nobody gives a rip. If we are fortunate enough to have one true friend, we are rich indeed.

Remember, too - this place is called Shave My FACE! I've got enough things going on without having to think about manscaping. Sometimes I even skip face shaving.


I stopped at 3 blades, though I mostly use double edge or injector razors. A lot of other men stopped at 3, also, judging by the continued popularity of the Gillette Mach 3. I've done pretty well selling discontinued older Gillettes, such as the Sensor and Atra, but it looks like I'm going to have to wait a long time before Gillette stops selling Mach 3 handles in the USA.

Dollar Shave Club sells razors and blades made by Dorco in Korea, so you get a choice of 2-blade up to 6-blade cartridges. They all fit all their handles, too, which is not how almost any other cartridge razor maker does business.

I've heard good things about cartridges from Feather, but I don't know any details, such as how many different kinds of cartridges they make.