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Originally Posted by GA Russell
In addition, it's much less expensive than using cartridge blades and "canned goo". A 40 cent blade lasts a week, and a $12 jar of my favorite soap lasts 5 months.
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Well, as it happens, today I have inserted a new cartridge blade to my Xtreme 3 Wilkinson shaving gizmo. The old one has worked for 20 months. Yes TWENTY months of 6-times-a-week shaving.
I was given - as a promotional sample - one cartridge plus handle. That was the week when my daughter was born. Twenty months ago.
I have paid 5 Euro for a pack of another 5 replacement cartridge blades.
I use THE cheapest shaving foam (NOT gel) in a can, because foam from the can is much less likely to clog the space between blades. Clogged space between blades is usually what makes you to ditch the old shaving cartridge.
One Czech engineer made a discovery, long time ago, that when you place disposable razor inside a pyramid (a model, not the real thing
) in exactly one third of height, horizontally, with edges parallel to South-North axis it will get sharpened overnight. Seriously (I mean this is what he claimed he discovered, I personally do not think it works that way as you will see).
I think, that this is more matter of how much attention you pay to handling your razorblade, because I have used standard bathroom cabinet to store *my* razor cartridge (the one that lasted 20 months), I was just very careful when handling it.