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After switching to safety razors many years ago I still haven't used a single pack of double sided razors for it. I honestly don't understand why people buy the plastic razors when it is neither more convenient or cheaper. Think I have the same brand head on mine, you gotta watch near the edges because they're more likely to cut you.
I'm about halfway through my second box. It took me about ~~10~~ 7 years to get through the first box.
I agree about not knowing why people keep using the plastic disposable ones. Best I can see is a reluctance to change a habit and/or a fear of safety razors. But it's well worth the switch.
Genuinely might just be unawareness. I have been using safety razors for a long time, but I was only introduced to it by a forum post somewhere long ago. Nobody I know personally (especially in the family) uses them. Stores in my area don’t stock razors or handles. It was just by chance that someone posted about them and that I saw that post that got me to switch.
Exposure is definitely a big part of it. The only reason I'm using one is because some podcasts / YouTubers I liked were extolling them and I looked into it. I can't recall ever seeing a safety razor for sale at any big grocery or drug store. I guess I could have just missed them. But they stock what gets advertised most, and by an immense margin: The dodeca-bladed monstrosities in either pussycat pink or blackout tacticool gunmetal. AFAIK, that's what everyone I know uses. I get asked every now and then if I can recommend my barber for a shave, then I mention the safety razor, and most guys have no idea what I'm describing to them.
Also, no matter the design, safety razors have an air of "old fashioned" that I think most people just cannot appreciate now. The notion that they'd ever have to do anything besides use the product and send it to the landfill is enough to make most people nope out immediately, and here you've got disassembling, reassembling, replacing parts, proper disposal... All that takes time and attention that most people can't reconcile.
It's not that much longer. If the extra 3 or 4 minutes is that critical, and that's using a soap and brush to make lather - you can use creams too, stop hitting the snooze and just get up already.
In any case, shaving is one of those activities us men can do to pamper ourselves every day. We need to learn from women that's it's OK to smell nice, and that jasmine scented shaving lather made in a warmed double shaving bowl with your favorite brush is a treat you should experience. You are worth it!
So guys, let's stop looking a shaving as a chore that needs to be done. Instead, make your shave something to look forward to and enjoy! Start you day out right!
Yeah, I had looked into safety razors years ago, but as the price gap was bigger back then I dismissed them.
Now I paid the same price for this handle, and the blades cost next to nothing. Only a bit of a learning curve.
I bought a cheap metal safety razor for like $10 and a pack of 100 blades for under $10 like a decade ago and am finally getting down to the last dozen or so blades. So less than $20 for a decade for the hardware and I think I spent more on shaving gel during that time.
You can soend more, but really don't need to.