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Originally Posted by Mr Spyutastic
Serious question. What should you get instead of Gillette?
buy a safety razor
it's takes a few shaves to get used to holding it at a slightly different angle and not having the bumpers on the modern razors
but it's super safe (hence the name and you're not going to cut yourself anymore than you would otherwise) is a far superior shave and replacement blades are not patented but in the public domain so cost just pennies each instead of $14.99 for a 4 pack
i shave closer in one stroke than with a modern one and never get razor burn and outside of a few painless nicks that drew a little blood but couldn't otherwise be felt nor seen on first few efforts
the entire reason why gillette makes those different razors are copyright laws, the safety razor and its blades are all in the public domain and thus anyone can make them so the big shaving companies began tweaking the design just ever so slightly so they could get a patent and then from there market the hell out of it as if it were a new innovation that deeply improved the shave (this is why you see the mach 3, then the vibrating mach 3, then the fusion 5, and now gillette labs, none of them shave any better than each other nor even the original safety razor, they just ran out of patent time and thus needed to drive up demand for a new and innovative product that couldn't be copied (you may have noticed there's now generic mach3 razors out there)
gillette is a marketing company that sells trash products - they never started innovating until their patent on the safety razor ran out and they've never since improved upon that original design
100% guarantee it's a better shave and a far more pleasurable experience with the safety razor
i only discovered this because when i was in egypt where they aren't all cucked by gillette and needed a razor that's all they had so i had to revert to the old style and couldn't believe how much better and cheaper it was
you can buy replacement blades for pennies and get multiple shaves out of them but they are so cheap you can also just toss em and use a new one each time if that is your preference
do it