Absolutely Criminal
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I don't see the sales of goo or carts as criminal. If the carts and goo didn't work for the consumer, then they wouldn't sell. There must have been a reason that people deflected from double edge systems when the carts came out. Most guys just want to scrape the whiskers from their face each day, and just want to get it done and over with as soon as possible. Shaving is probably seen by most as a necessary evil rather than something that can be pleasurable under the right circumstances. If they don't want to see past their goo and carts, well that's entirely their right.
To tell the truth, I'm grateful for the carts and goo. If carts weren't around to be the latest and greatest thing for the razor companies, then we still might be paying $67 for 50 blades today. Of course, blades could get that high in the future if carts take hold in the third world. I had better start finding a good blade for me and my Tech and start stockpiling for the shavepocalypse. I'm going to have to calculate how many blades I'll need for the next 60 years. Maybe I should play it safe and figure for 120.
To tell the truth, I'm grateful for the carts and goo. If carts weren't around to be the latest and greatest thing for the razor companies, then we still might be paying $67 for 50 blades today. Of course, blades could get that high in the future if carts take hold in the third world. I had better start finding a good blade for me and my Tech and start stockpiling for the shavepocalypse. I'm going to have to calculate how many blades I'll need for the next 60 years. Maybe I should play it safe and figure for 120.
You have to admire their cheek. They sell expensive razors/carts that promise perfect shaves, but then they spin it round and say you'll get better results if you use their expensive goos. And the public lap it up.
It's the shaving equivalent of convenience food. Saves time, but it's chemically processed, expensive and unhealthy.
It's the shaving equivalent of convenience food. Saves time, but it's chemically processed, expensive and unhealthy.
But they've been doing the same thing since 1949 or so when canned shaving creams became available. How is what they do today any different than it was over 60 years ago?
No way I am saving money, but I found this site, I like BBS shaves, I have something to do now when my wife says we are going to the mall and I get to watch my wife scoop up a handful of Castle Forbes ( enough for twenty shaves) and slather it on her legs in the shower
Life is better with D/E shaving
Life is better with D/E shaving
There are many other shaving sticks out there that preform exceedingly above their price point (Arko, Palmolive, etc) and are still less expensive than proglide, not to mention, they lack the additives they put in canned goop that isn't good for your skin. I was just hoping his endorsement and touting of proglide was sarcasm, not that he doesn't like Erasmic anymore.
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I have been doing this since I started shaving, will be 67 come January4. Anyone who thinks this is an inexpensive endeavor are kidding themselves.you always have to buy something else once you have the bug. Razors, brushes, soaps, creams, etc. I have acquired more stuff than I can use in several lifetimes & I will never get rid of anything because I like everything I have acquired so when I die someone will be well fixed as far as shaving. All the best guys. Grayson
You can easily save money with DE shaving if you want to - the products are cheaper, period. Aside from initial investment in non disposable razor and brush of course. I dropped $500 on a big stash of stuff to try when I first started a year and a half ago. Since then I haven't spent a dime, have sold off several products that didn't work for me, and still have a supply of creams, soaps, and blades that will last many, many years.
No, you don't. Maybe YOU do, but that doesn't make it true for everyone.
If anything, my shaving costs have gone up! It started off so innocently, with an inexpensive badger brush, a cheap puck of VDH, and my one razor. Now my razor has 12 brothers, I have 6 shave brushes, about 8 creams and as many soaps, not to mention aftershaves.
Same deal on this side of the pond. I switched in 2010 and noticed shortly thereafter that some stores put the razors and blades in theft-proof cases.
The thing is, people think using old shaving equipment is dangerous. The past two generations have not handled a razor blade.
In theory DE shaving is less expensive; but in practice ... not always the case.
People refuse to acknowledge that a whole lot of gents used to use canned and/or non-lathering shaving cream with their DE razors, with no ill effects.
They also refuse to acknowledge that the negatives associated with cartridge razors were first associated with the introduction and subsequent sales of DE razors. You know, convenience, ease of use, disposable, expensive blades, money was made on the blades, and not the razors.
+1. Yup. My AD's have cost me a small fortune over the years. However, traditional shaving is cheaper than hunting, golf, boating, guns, fishing, cars, motorcycles, and marital infidelity.
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