I wasn’t a huge fan. Kept cutting my legs. Retired them completely when I got the shick razors here. Really hoped we would get that deal again or a Gillette fusion.
Perhaps. There’s always an argument on Slickdeals when Dorco razors come up. Some people love them, some people hate them.
For me personally, I find they last longer than Gillette or Schick, these blades last forever and they’re so much cheaper…
Other people claim these razors slice them open (my wife won’t use lady Dorco for that reason )… I guess it depends if you’re prone to nicks.
Now if these are truly generic Dorco who knows… You can frequently get real “name brand Dorco” less than a dollar a blade on sale and each blade probably has 3 weeks of life expectancy for giving a good close shave (although if you’re like me you end up using them far longer than that because you’re too lazy to switch the blade).
So… Good price but you can get Dorco cheaper if you’re looking for it and willing to wait.
I want a razor with so many blades that I can touch it to my face, pull down a distance of d where d is the distance between the blades, and I’m done shaving.
@awk I can do you better than that. Take a single bladed razor, where d is infinite. You can definitely finish shaving before pulling the razor down an infinite distance. So that’s your most efficient solution in terms of the ratio of distance shaved to d.
Now if you want to minimize d, consider a razor of infinite blades spaced so tightly that a single atom from a whisker can just enter between the blades. Just the action of trying to hold it still would probably shave your whole face a million times over. How smooth would that shave be?
Three blades are better than two, four blades better than three, five blades better than four, six better than five, hundred is better than ninety-nine, ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall. Ninety-nine bottles of beer. Take one down, pass it around …
@Mothersnakes I’m pretty sure the number of blades was a way to patent or trademark (or both) razor designs so that (unlicensed) knockoffs would have fewer legal legs to stand upon, and so that reputable supermarkets would refuse to carry the knockoffs (so as to avoid endangering their relationship with Famous Maker, and avoid even being a party to any lawsuits to boot).
This also implies that Dorco either is Famous Maker under a different name, or, much more likely, licensed the design.
Switched to an electric a few years ago. Shaves money, shaves time. Mrs. G likes that I shave daily since the switch. I like that I don’t subsidize the band-aid industry.
@alacrity@mehcuda67 If either of you put shaving cream in your margaritas, I definitely don’t want any. Up until now, I thought the tequila was the most offensive ingredient in a margarita.
2 handles!!! Now I don’t have to fret over the wife using my razor being that she lacks facial hair and using it on other par… well you know where I’m coming from…
This is the second thing I’ve tried to buy and I keep getting an oops error. I’ve checked my addresses and everything. is there a bug report feature somewhere?
@HELLOALICE write into https://meh.com/support so we can see what’s going on. (We’re pretty caught up right now, so you’ll get a reply this afternoon.)
I’ve been using Dorco for years. Using this exact same blade currently. Dorco offers endless coupons and deals which typically beat this price. My last order was for 32 blades and cost me about $22.
@cinoclav@RiotDemon I was making a joke about the blades… I messed up and put packs. Like counting the blades in a cartridge… get it? Get it??? It was poorly done. I am but a simple unshaven man.
Looks like close out versions of the 6 blade ones from Dollar Shave Club (same manufacturer). I use them and they’re pretty good. Deal is comparable to Dorco’s 50% coupon price, maybe a little better.
@reclaimercube don’t mind me. Just my daily piggy back saying 3 days since our toothbrush campaign started. At least this is a product that is used in the bathroom. We are so fucking close!
don’t mind me. Just my daily piggy back saying 3 days since our toothbrush campaign started. At least this is a product that is used in the bathroom. We are so fucking close!
@akparker777 I would love to know what product you want extremely badly so I can piggyback on your campaign too! Not sarcastic! Let’s get what we want! Dammit
@reclaimercube@therealjrn to be fair that’s a… Special… looking tooth brush with 6 heads for $29. The last pure Sonic on meh was 12 heads with “uv sanitizer” for $25
@therealjrn@unksol is it too much to ask to bring it back? Hopefully doing these posts everyday I will either bring the meh teams tears of laughter or tears of joy.
@reclaimercube@therealjrn I was merely pointing out the morningsave offer was not equivalent to the previous meh offer. Usually morningsave has the leftover mehs for a couple bucks more and has before on the pure Sonic’s. Since is a completely different product now… Odds are they have sold out. You should probably discount getting one of those since I would guess the Warehouse is empty. As with all things they eventually run out. See speakerdoc Friday. So it’s going to be morning save or wait till another meh buyer buys too many toothbrushes.
Unless my mehstalker Foo fails me they were last offered Jan 31st. And every couple months before that. Pretty sure they are gone.
In for the thirteen-pack of blades. Considering that I only shave the bit of neck between the end of my beard and the start of my chest hair, that should last me a couple years at least.
I sprung for the 54-pack, which should last me about 5 years. (And that’s with shaving full face/neck daily.) I can get a month easy out of each blade because I use this…oil(?) called Shave Secret (you can find it on Amazon). It’s saved me SO MUCH MONEY by not having to replace heads so often. I’ve been using the same plastic 5-blade disposable head (that I also bought from Meh, now that I think about it) daily for about 3 1/2 months now. Also I never get nicks/cuts, whereas I used to a lot when I’d use shave cream or Cetaphil lotion.
Don’t settle for Dollar Store razors, Gillette makes the best cartridge razors (Mach 3 & 5-Blade Fusion) and with simple,effortless maintenance you can get a minimum 30 of the smoothest, closest shaves from one blade! I have been using a product called RazorGuard since I saw an article in Men’s Health years ago. There’s probably others out there, it pays for itself!!
@charleD@Thumperchick I almost tagged it for you too…but no hotlinks…so meh. Looks like Chuck just likes spending his money on nationally advertised retail products.
@charleD@Thumperchick It may or may not be spam, but I am using Gillette Fusion Pro Glide blades again after trying (and liking) a variety of Dorco blades (4, grabby; 6 with trimmer, like this, pretty good; 6 without trimmer, also pretty good; and 7, meh).
While I could certainly be satisfied with the Pace 6 razor, I think the Gillette Pro Fusion Pro Glide blades are better. They do cost a lot more, but I don’t spend enough of blades to make it worth worrying about.
Harry’s blades were fine, too, but their handle sucked. I think they’ve fixed it.
@charleD@craigthom@Thumperchick I like Gillette, too. I use my Gillette Tech fat-handle DE safety razor three times a week. It still works great. Some of the finish has rubbed off, but I can’t fault it too much since it’s about seventy years old.
@charleD@craigthom@Limewater I think the spammy part here is the RazorGuard plug. But I didn’t want to delete it because I figured someone would want to weigh in on the razor brand. Glad to see that paid off!
@craigthom@Thumperchick I liked the trial I got from Harry’s, but their handle was impossible to hold in the shower. When I let them know why I was cancelling (they asked) it was pretty much an “oh well” reply even though I had noticed they had a newer handle with more grip. I’m surprised they didn’t suggest that one. I like their travel cover.
@charleD@Limewater@therealjrn@Thumperchick
When I moved into my freshman dorm I got a “welcome kit” of commercial promotional items that included a little can of Edge Gel. I’ve had some detours, but I’m still using it forty years later, so that was good marketing investment (even though it’s changed hands and is no longer owned by S C Johnson & Sons but the people who own Schick).
The razor in the kit was probably an Atra, with TWO blades. Maybe there was a little copper colored can of Right Guard in there, too.
@RiotDemon
That slippery orange handle from Harry’s was a deal killer. I shave in the shower, too, and that just wouldn’t do.
Was curious as to the new bulk blade offer, I tried both Harry’s and DSC and went back to my Gillette Fusion.
In response to the earlier lame comment about me liking to buy nationally advertised retail products…Have any of you heard of RazorGuard?I’ve never seen it advertised and only learned of the brand via a Men’s Health shaving editorial and yet a few customer reviews on Amazon say they have been around for over a decade I also use their shave oil mainly out of convenience, one order, but have been pleased with the performance of both for years.
But still shilling for RazerGuard. Lol literally snake oil that magically protects your blade “as seen in men’s health and qvc. Also try our shave oil” the Amazon reviews are def meh
@charleD@therealjrn@Thumperchick ah. Got the connection. Right on the main page is Gillette. And the over inflated cost of Gillette blades is needed to make the claim of "saves $180 a year by using our $20 per 2 ounce blade saver that only lasts 60 shaves. " Your going to get 10 shaves anyway. So I guess you use the oil and have a $20-25 blade… Which won’t last that long anyway. Instead of just paying less for new blades.
@charleD@therealjrn@Thumperchick@unksol It seems reasonable, keeping the water and caked on stuff off the blade, but I think maybe just using mineral oil or something like that would do the same job.
@craigthom I’ve seen some trials on preventing oxidation with either alcohol or oil that they theorized may help. Never seems to make much difference. But if you wanted to try I agree. A huge bottle of mineral oil you’ll never use it cheap. $20 for 2 ounces that will do the same thing? It’s not magically sharpening it lol.
It’s not like you leave your razor wet anyway. Rinse/shake/it dries
And anytime you see “as seen on” that’s a huge red flag lol. Hence spammy
@unksol I use mineral oil on my cutting boards and wooden utensils. A big bottle of drug-store-grade mineral oil will last for years, but it’s cheap and does have other uses.
@craigthom exactly so why would anyone pay $10 an ounce for “special” razor oil? Mineral oil makes sense and is cheap.
And by “never use” I meant “never use up” lol. Takes years to get through a cheap Walmart bottle vs RazerGuard $20 for 2 ounces and throw out in 6 months
I never shave cause I get to work from home. I just buzz the beard when I buzz the head. But even when I must a DE works best for me. So did my birthday mach 3 15 years ago… but it cost more… if you have to shave every day or every other day to go into work and they don’t irritate your skin getting a one pass shave is totally reasonable
@craigthom@unksol I posted earlier.
Honestly, I started with the DEs for three reasons.
One, I’m cheap. I bought my razor for eight dollars, and a hundred blades for fifteen, and I was set for five years.
Two, I sometimes go days without shaving, and I always end up clogging up the multi-blade shave cartridges.
Three, I feel like I have more edge control along my beard when I’m not rubbing three to six blades along my face simultaneously.
I don’t get into the weird shaving soaps and creams, though. Those just take too much time.
@craigthom@Limewater I did get a cheapish brush. Going crazy on a high end badger brush is nuts. And Taylor of old bond street lathers up real easy and is very cost effective. Did it to be cheap and a DE just causes less of a rash. Works with a mach 3 too
when I had to go into work I just did it in the shower and it was great. But now I am blessed and shave once every few years under duress lol
I have to wonder why this order is still processing when the Saturday Slob kit I got for my nephew a month ago couldn’t be cancelled 6 hours later when I realized I hadn’t been able to choose a shirt size,
Specs
What’s in the Box?
13x Six-blade Cartridges
1x Handle
Or
54x Six-blade Cartridges
2x Handles
Price Comparison
$24.96 - $99.99 (for similar and compatible without handles) at Amazon
Warranty
90 day Mediocre
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 20th - Thursday, July 23rd
Meh
Shaving off the price
Maker is famous for making razors with too many blades.
@ravenblack I am not alone!
Best Famous Maker:
could use some hexa- prefixes
These look exactly like dollar shave club executive cartridges.
@SteveOOO weird right?
@SteveOOO Dollar Shave Club is a Dorco reseller.
@SteveOOO agreed.
I wasn’t a huge fan. Kept cutting my legs. Retired them completely when I got the shick razors here. Really hoped we would get that deal again or a Gillette fusion.
/giphy Umbrella Corporation
Soo… are these worth getting?
@DaveInSoCal if they’re really Dorco…
Perhaps. There’s always an argument on Slickdeals when Dorco razors come up. Some people love them, some people hate them.
For me personally, I find they last longer than Gillette or Schick, these blades last forever and they’re so much cheaper…
Other people claim these razors slice them open (my wife won’t use lady Dorco for that reason )… I guess it depends if you’re prone to nicks.
Now if these are truly generic Dorco who knows… You can frequently get real “name brand Dorco” less than a dollar a blade on sale and each blade probably has 3 weeks of life expectancy for giving a good close shave (although if you’re like me you end up using them far longer than that because you’re too lazy to switch the blade).
So… Good price but you can get Dorco cheaper if you’re looking for it and willing to wait.
@OnionSoup thanks!
Will these be sealed in packages when shipped , or open like the schick two bladed razors in the past?
@stryper2000 if you go to I believe the 7th image that’s how the handles come. They have a shield guard and also plastic over the handle and guard.
@mandirose thanks
@mandirose can you confirm the cartridges are also plastic-wrapped?
@stryper2000
@stryper2000 @Thumperchick Cartridges come as you see them, in the plastic container but not packaged.
I find it difficult to believe someone makes a knockoff of a Korean razor blade.
So maybe these come via Dollar Shave Club, who resell Dorco blades? So still Dorco blades, but Dollar Shave Club isn’t mentioned?
@craigthom
oh come on, these days people will sell knockoffs of knockoffs.
That being said, I hope everyone will join my very own new deal-a-day site, neh.com
@craigthom who said “knock off?” just not, uh, sure who made them. As far as you’re concerned.
@craigthom Think “Rustler” Jeans. The knockoff of Wrangler, which is the knockoff of Levis.
Sadly, Rustler was all we could afford in my family where I was on of nine children. (Sniffle.)
I’ll pass, I’m participating in “no shave, not ever”
The handle and cartridges look exactly like my current set: which is the in-house generic from Sam’s Club.
So does that make this a deal, @unl33t?
@unl33t Came here to say exactly this. Can confirm.
I want a razor with so many blades that I can touch it to my face, pull down a distance of d where d is the distance between the blades, and I’m done shaving.
@awk Dorco also makes a seven-blades razor, but, to be honest, I like this one better.
@awk I can do you better than that. Take a single bladed razor, where d is infinite. You can definitely finish shaving before pulling the razor down an infinite distance. So that’s your most efficient solution in terms of the ratio of distance shaved to d.
Now if you want to minimize d, consider a razor of infinite blades spaced so tightly that a single atom from a whisker can just enter between the blades. Just the action of trying to hold it still would probably shave your whole face a million times over. How smooth would that shave be?
@awk well, a straight edge, applied on the bias at the right spot, would indeed ensure you’d be done shaving.
Three blades are better than two, four blades better than three, five blades better than four, six better than five, hundred is better than ninety-nine, ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall. Ninety-nine bottles of beer. Take one down, pass it around …
If I shaved, this would be a deal…
All I can think of is this:
@ShotgunX or this:
Why the he’ll do we need razors with six blades? It’s all just hype.
@Mothersnakes I’m pretty sure the number of blades was a way to patent or trademark (or both) razor designs so that (unlicensed) knockoffs would have fewer legal legs to stand upon, and so that reputable supermarkets would refuse to carry the knockoffs (so as to avoid endangering their relationship with Famous Maker, and avoid even being a party to any lawsuits to boot).
This also implies that Dorco either is Famous Maker under a different name, or, much more likely, licensed the design.
Ancient Viking beard with twin 12" braids below the chin.
@mbimeh Cool. Kudos on the face rope.
Switched to an electric a few years ago. Shaves money, shaves time. Mrs. G likes that I shave daily since the switch. I like that I don’t subsidize the band-aid industry.
@gglockner I haven’t cut myself shaving since I was a young whippersnapper. The trick is to not use a razor blade made by Stanley.
/giphy Stanley knife
/giphy club break
I’d imagine a lot of people are taking a break from a lot of clubs right about now.
unl33t knows his stuff. Member’s Mark Duraglide 6 (out of stock)
lol… I just got 24 blades & a giant tube of shaving cream from Dorco for under $20.
Guy? Kinda fail, here.
@alacrity Yeah, but what kind of margaritas can you make with that?
@alacrity @mehcuda67 If either of you put shaving cream in your margaritas, I definitely don’t want any. Up until now, I thought the tequila was the most offensive ingredient in a margarita.
@alacrity @mehcuda67 @yeppers shaving cream might be preferable to cheap tequila.
@mehcuda67 not for margaritas, per se- but for zesting the lemons & limes
@mehcuda67 @OnionSoup @yeppers c’mon- if you’re using good tequila in margaritas, you’re doing it wrong
@alacrity but does it have Bluetooth capabilities?
@akparker777 only with the proprietary Bluetooth dongle accessory. It also doubles as a waffle maker.
@alacrity If you can’t tell that it’s good tequila then you’re making your margaritas wrong.
@craigthom if you’re doing it right, after your third- you won’t mind as much.
2 handles!!! Now I don’t have to fret over the wife using my razor being that she lacks facial hair and using it on other par… well you know where I’m coming from…
@Larry1977 …and where it’s been.
@Larry1977 both handles look identical. How will you know which is the hoo-ha and armpit blade?
i predict these will be bundled with the leftover nougat yule-logs and stale white-chocolate covered pretzels in January.
Irk’s older brother - Dirk!!
/giphy clean shaving
Six blades by Dorco? More like Dorkco amirite?
Can’t I just take hormones?
Bonus Points for Sixth Graders.
How do you make a hormone?
@wew don’t pay her.
@fastharry @wew BaDum Tishhh
Deal not sharp…just saying…
Meh, you’re really trying to compete with dollar shave club? G’luck.
https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036
Dorco compatible means DSC compatible too
This is the second thing I’ve tried to buy and I keep getting an oops error. I’ve checked my addresses and everything.
is there a bug report feature somewhere?
@HELLOALICE write into https://meh.com/support so we can see what’s going on. (We’re pretty caught up right now, so you’ll get a reply this afternoon.)
I’ve been using Dorco for years. Using this exact same blade currently. Dorco offers endless coupons and deals which typically beat this price. My last order was for 32 blades and cost me about $22.
@cinoclav this is 13x6 packs… So 78 blades for $12. I’d say that’s better than 32blades for $22. But maybe yours are special?
@cinoclav @paradigm it’s only 13 cartridges. 6 blades each cartridge. Not 13x6.
@cinoclav @RiotDemon I was making a joke about the blades… I messed up and put packs. Like counting the blades in a cartridge… get it? Get it??? It was poorly done. I am but a simple unshaven man.
@paradigm @RiotDemon Yeah, I think you might want to leave the jokes to @parodymandotcom
@cinoclav @parodymandotcom @RiotDemon I’m glad I took my shot here in a safe place. Could’ve had dire consequences… Really cut it close if you ask me…
@cinoclav @paradigm @RiotDemon Because my humor is sharp as a…um…eh…really sharp thing.
Looks like close out versions of the 6 blade ones from Dollar Shave Club (same manufacturer). I use them and they’re pretty good. Deal is comparable to Dorco’s 50% coupon price, maybe a little better.
Meh I have anxiously been awaiting for you to post a toothbrush for sale again. I will post this everyday until you finally sell another one again.
@reclaimercube as long as it’s a better brand than the Pursonic one they normally sell.
@RiotDemon surprisingly I actually quite enjoyed my Pursonic! It was purrrfect!
@reclaimercube it was fine at first. Now the battery doesn’t hold a charge. It’s also a pain to change the brushes.
@reclaimercube meanwhile, be sure to go by Dollartree and get something to tide you over…
@reclaimercube Here’s some: https://morningsave.com/market?q=toothbrush
@reclaimercube don’t mind me. Just my daily piggy back saying 3 days since our toothbrush campaign started. At least this is a product that is used in the bathroom. We are so fucking close!
@akparker777
Not at all. This is my daily response back to you–you do know morningsave.com is owned by mediocre corp, which also owns meh?
https://morningsave.com/market?q=toothbrush
@akparker777 I would love to know what product you want extremely badly so I can piggyback on your campaign too! Not sarcastic! Let’s get what we want! Dammit
@akparker777 @therealjrn meh.com or die
@akparker777 @reclaimercube
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/join-the-mehvolution
Join the Mehvolution
Price: $19.00
Condition: Probably New
@reclaimercube @therealjrn to be fair that’s a… Special… looking tooth brush with 6 heads for $29. The last pure Sonic on meh was 12 heads with “uv sanitizer” for $25
@therealjrn @unksol is it too much to ask to bring it back? Hopefully doing these posts everyday I will either bring the meh teams tears of laughter or tears of joy.
@reclaimercube @therealjrn I was merely pointing out the morningsave offer was not equivalent to the previous meh offer. Usually morningsave has the leftover mehs for a couple bucks more and has before on the pure Sonic’s. Since is a completely different product now… Odds are they have sold out. You should probably discount getting one of those since I would guess the Warehouse is empty. As with all things they eventually run out. See speakerdoc Friday. So it’s going to be morning save or wait till another meh buyer buys too many toothbrushes.
Unless my mehstalker Foo fails me they were last offered Jan 31st. And every couple months before that. Pretty sure they are gone.
Will these irritate my taint area?
@Bumplepimp Of course not. It has a lubricating strip which contains “Vitamin E, Aloe, Lavender Oil.”
In for the thirteen-pack of blades. Considering that I only shave the bit of neck between the end of my beard and the start of my chest hair, that should last me a couple years at least.
/image grouchy earthy dad
The 54-pack should last my husband and I a few years.
/image chunky-large-panda
Dorco Pace 6 handle + Pace 6 Plus Blades. Overall a great deal.
Eh, sure.
/giphy receptive-hopeless-history
I sprung for the 54-pack, which should last me about 5 years. (And that’s with shaving full face/neck daily.) I can get a month easy out of each blade because I use this…oil(?) called Shave Secret (you can find it on Amazon). It’s saved me SO MUCH MONEY by not having to replace heads so often. I’ve been using the same plastic 5-blade disposable head (that I also bought from Meh, now that I think about it) daily for about 3 1/2 months now. Also I never get nicks/cuts, whereas I used to a lot when I’d use shave cream or Cetaphil lotion.
Don’t settle for Dollar Store razors, Gillette makes the best cartridge razors (Mach 3 & 5-Blade Fusion) and with simple,effortless maintenance you can get a minimum 30 of the smoothest, closest shaves from one blade! I have been using a product called RazorGuard since I saw an article in Men’s Health years ago. There’s probably others out there, it pays for itself!!
@charleD I’m not saying this is spam. But I’m not saying this isn’t spam, either.
@charleD @Thumperchick I almost tagged it for you too…but no hotlinks…so meh. Looks like Chuck just likes spending his money on nationally advertised retail products.
@charleD @Thumperchick Let’s see if he’s real…
Hey Chuck? What brought you to meh today? What kinds of products would you like to see?
@charleD @therealjrn
/giphy bots bots bots
@charleD @Thumperchick It may or may not be spam, but I am using Gillette Fusion Pro Glide blades again after trying (and liking) a variety of Dorco blades (4, grabby; 6 with trimmer, like this, pretty good; 6 without trimmer, also pretty good; and 7, meh).
While I could certainly be satisfied with the Pace 6 razor, I think the Gillette Pro Fusion Pro Glide blades are better. They do cost a lot more, but I don’t spend enough of blades to make it worth worrying about.
Harry’s blades were fine, too, but their handle sucked. I think they’ve fixed it.
@charleD @craigthom @Thumperchick I like Gillette, too. I use my Gillette Tech fat-handle DE safety razor three times a week. It still works great. Some of the finish has rubbed off, but I can’t fault it too much since it’s about seventy years old.
@charleD @craigthom @Limewater I think the spammy part here is the RazorGuard plug. But I didn’t want to delete it because I figured someone would want to weigh in on the razor brand. Glad to see that paid off!
@charleD @craigthom @Limewater @Thumperchick I got this in the mail the other day. Somebody’s database has some issues apparently.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@craigthom @Thumperchick I liked the trial I got from Harry’s, but their handle was impossible to hold in the shower. When I let them know why I was cancelling (they asked) it was pretty much an “oh well” reply even though I had noticed they had a newer handle with more grip. I’m surprised they didn’t suggest that one. I like their travel cover.
@therealjrn
/giphy happy 18th birthday!
@charleD @Limewater @therealjrn @Thumperchick
When I moved into my freshman dorm I got a “welcome kit” of commercial promotional items that included a little can of Edge Gel. I’ve had some detours, but I’m still using it forty years later, so that was good marketing investment (even though it’s changed hands and is no longer owned by S C Johnson & Sons but the people who own Schick).
The razor in the kit was probably an Atra, with TWO blades. Maybe there was a little copper colored can of Right Guard in there, too.
@RiotDemon
That slippery orange handle from Harry’s was a deal killer. I shave in the shower, too, and that just wouldn’t do.
@therealjrn @Thumperchick
Was curious as to the new bulk blade offer, I tried both Harry’s and DSC and went back to my Gillette Fusion.
In response to the earlier lame comment about me liking to buy nationally advertised retail products…Have any of you heard of RazorGuard?I’ve never seen it advertised and only learned of the brand via a Men’s Health shaving editorial and yet a few customer reviews on Amazon say they have been around for over a decade I also use their shave oil mainly out of convenience, one order, but have been pleased with the performance of both for years.
@charleD @Thumperchick Holy shit! You ARE real!
@charleD @therealjrn @Thumperchick
But still shilling for RazerGuard. Lol literally snake oil that magically protects your blade “as seen in men’s health and qvc. Also try our shave oil” the Amazon reviews are def meh
@charleD @therealjrn @Thumperchick ah. Got the connection. Right on the main page is Gillette. And the over inflated cost of Gillette blades is needed to make the claim of "saves $180 a year by using our $20 per 2 ounce blade saver that only lasts 60 shaves. " Your going to get 10 shaves anyway. So I guess you use the oil and have a $20-25 blade… Which won’t last that long anyway. Instead of just paying less for new blades.
@charleD @therealjrn @Thumperchick @unksol It seems reasonable, keeping the water and caked on stuff off the blade, but I think maybe just using mineral oil or something like that would do the same job.
@craigthom I’ve seen some trials on preventing oxidation with either alcohol or oil that they theorized may help. Never seems to make much difference. But if you wanted to try I agree. A huge bottle of mineral oil you’ll never use it cheap. $20 for 2 ounces that will do the same thing? It’s not magically sharpening it lol.
It’s not like you leave your razor wet anyway. Rinse/shake/it dries
And anytime you see “as seen on” that’s a huge red flag lol. Hence spammy
@craigthom @unksol Clark Howard (consumer guy) says that simply drying your blade after using is the trick to keeping it sharp.
@unksol I use mineral oil on my cutting boards and wooden utensils. A big bottle of drug-store-grade mineral oil will last for years, but it’s cheap and does have other uses.
@craigthom exactly so why would anyone pay $10 an ounce for “special” razor oil? Mineral oil makes sense and is cheap.
And by “never use” I meant “never use up” lol. Takes years to get through a cheap Walmart bottle vs RazerGuard $20 for 2 ounces and throw out in 6 months
@craigthom @therealjrn yup get the water off. Oil does that plus blocks it from oxidation. But it’s such a pain. I’d just rather dry it and hang it up.
Harry’s razors are best, by far.
I don’t understand what all those extra blades are for? They sure cost a lot for all the irritation they cause… Where are the DE guys lol
@unksol There were a couple. I expected more, because safety razor users are usually like vegans, talking about it constantly.
@craigthom lol good burn. Seriously.
I never shave cause I get to work from home. I just buzz the beard when I buzz the head. But even when I must a DE works best for me. So did my birthday mach 3 15 years ago… but it cost more… if you have to shave every day or every other day to go into work and they don’t irritate your skin getting a one pass shave is totally reasonable
@craigthom @unksol I posted earlier.
Honestly, I started with the DEs for three reasons.
One, I’m cheap. I bought my razor for eight dollars, and a hundred blades for fifteen, and I was set for five years.
Two, I sometimes go days without shaving, and I always end up clogging up the multi-blade shave cartridges.
Three, I feel like I have more edge control along my beard when I’m not rubbing three to six blades along my face simultaneously.
I don’t get into the weird shaving soaps and creams, though. Those just take too much time.
@craigthom @Limewater I did get a cheapish brush. Going crazy on a high end badger brush is nuts. And Taylor of old bond street lathers up real easy and is very cost effective. Did it to be cheap and a DE just causes less of a rash. Works with a mach 3 too
when I had to go into work I just did it in the shower and it was great. But now I am blessed and shave once every few years under duress lol
Gillette Sensor Excel two blade razor provides best shave for me. #oldschool
I have to wonder why this order is still processing when the Saturday Slob kit I got for my nephew a month ago couldn’t be cancelled 6 hours later when I realized I hadn’t been able to choose a shirt size,
Not cool, meh.
Shaving razor bundle shipped, and none too soon – this yak’s not getting any smoother.