Leaves and razor evaluation: A sharp edge

It is dangerous There is Epiphanies while shaving. But in this case, it is inevitable: my spirituality is about shaving.

Over the past few weeks, my bathroom habits are like George Clooney My brother, where are you art?minus dapper Dan. I was shaved with soap with a brush and bowl, and shaved with a single -blade, one -edge, unknown razor.

Specifically, I am using the Thorn leaf, a one -sided razor of a stylish and well marketed leaves, having a razor by making the company mark the words I am not plastic. The less ferocious single leaf razor is called Twig, and it means softer than thorns. All are very cute.

But what I learned, after weeks of the gentle cloak with the thorn, is that I made the wrong shaving.

Keep sharp

The hero is something that seems to be clear at first: the best and safest blade is always a sharp thing. The The best kitchen knife is what you keep sharp. The same thing happens with scissors, and for the tongue you placed on your own face. A simple blade, the low technology of the leaf has been cut close and also any fancy squid setting I have tried it on the market. The main reason is that it is still sharp.

Photo: Matthew Korfhage

Because this is a problem: it doesn't matter if you have a 15 -layer tongue cartridge with a whistle, a light and who responds. The blade is terrible, and all the blades are used. And when the blade is dull, they begin to taste her hair instead of cutting it, stimulating my skin to become worse and cause small nicks when the skin is pinched. Alas, the shaving blades based on modern cartridges dominate the supermarket is very expensive and often inconvenient to constantly replace: about $ 30 or $ 40 for a 10 pack.

Price combined. Time The magazine knew that this game was in 1927: “As everyone knows, the safe razor manufacturers have most of their profits, not from the razor, but from the blades that can be replaced.” A little legendaryBut the business logic of shaving still cannot overcome: Money in the blade.

So I resisted too long swap. And then pay the price. Even if Gillette and other razor manufacturers advertise that their tongue cartridges are very good for weeks of their own coats, raw, raw steel cloaks, steel tactics tend to eat through the cartridge earlier than I want to replace it. So, or I continue to pay Blade's installments, or pay my tax as a bad shaving, very bad.

Safe dance

The leaf provides an opposing theory of shaving: Money in the handle. The blades are instead cheap, small and present everywhere. The Thorn is the heart of an old -fashioned safety knife. It is compatible with quite a lot of good old -fashioned sword blades, even though it is classic Platinum stars (You will have to take two double edges in half) Private blade. The package of one hundred is less than an $ 20 invoice.

Photo: Leaf