![]() I bought a safety razor, blades, a brush, and never looked back. Not only that, but double-edge blades were dirt cheap online, and the razors were only $35. Good fooking grief! Talk about sticker shock! Then I remembered the posts about traditional wetshaving.ĭoing a little research, and looking in the Art of Shaving store, revealed that safety razors were every bit as cool looking as the fancy Gillette handle. What the hey, it was $150! Then I looked at the price of the Fusion cartridges, something like $25 for five. It was a Gillette special edition, and I went back to buy it a few days later. This time, however, I noticed an uber-cool looking cartridge razor in the windows display. Other than noting it was quite upscale looking, I never really given it a second thought before. ![]() Holy freakin' cow! What an amazing eye opener.Īt about the same time, I walked by an Art of Shaving store in a local mall. ![]() When I asked a nearby clerk how well KMF worked, he said "It gives the slickest shaves ever." Trying it with the new cartridges gave shaves that were absolutely baby bottom smooth every single time. Canned gel was getting expensive, and I was looking for a less pricey alternative. About a week later, I noticed Kiss My Face shaving cream at the local Whole Foods. These cartridges gave much better shaves than any cartridge I had ever used. Several months later, I read another thread on the same topic.įast forward a year to 2007, I bought some store brand Trac II cartridges from Longs Drugs. I didn't give it a second thought at the time. I read a post extolling traditional wetshaving in the "off topic" sub-forum on a fountain pen forum. We won't all agree with the experts online and we don't have to, there are others to watch and listen to.My discovery of traditional wetshaving was completely by accident. In the end, it is just shaving and a fun hobby to explore and share with others. My hope is that this gives us all a better understanding from the viewpoint of a vendor. But some posts bump right up against being unnecessarily provocative and that is not what I am about - life is too short. You will note that I haven't done this because in my opinion it has remained civil and civil discourse is what B&B is all about. We also have discretion to edit and have posts removed from any of our threads since it is our own sub-forum. Because we pay for it we have discretion to post threads that are commercial in nature - that is the whole idea of vendors having their own sub-forum. Vendors are an important revenue stream for B&B so it can continue to be the helpful forum that it is. That makes them an expert in my book.Īnother aspect is that as a vendor we pay $500.00/year to have our own sub-forum on B&B which is another tool for a small business. Why do I say this? Quite simply, they try a lot more products from a plethora of manufacturers than I do. ![]() And I will call them experts since they are more of an expert than I. I fully intend to post new threads from youtube and the experts that review our products. One thing bears remembering shaver, We are thankful for all of our customers out there and youtube plays a role in helping a small business promote itself.
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