They’ve just discontinued my razor of choice — the Wilkinson Sword\/Schick Diamond — so I’ve decided to go old-school. Now that Wilkinson Sword has the four-blade Quattro, and Gillette their five-bladed monstrosity, I’ve realised that the whole multi-blade thing is a load of hooey.<\/p>\n
Consider this: if the first blade was supposed to do most of the work, then draw the hair out a bit to be cut below the skin level, further blades would have less and less effect. It’s just as likely that the whole multi-blade cartridge thing was a scam to sell more, and non-standard, blades that could easily be made obsolescent by the time generic manufacturers caught on —\u00c2\u00a0 the old Instamatic effect.<\/p>\n
So I bought a Merkur safety razor (from Toronto Salon Supply, at Bay and Dundas), and a bunch of Merkur blades. I didn’t shave particularly close today, but it’s just as close a shave as the old twin-blader I used to use.<\/p>\n
The plus side is that I’m throwing away no plastic with every blade, so I’m shaving the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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