Durance Bol & Savon A Barbe
Here on the interwebs there are very many reviews of shaving products by consumers, in fact some websites actively encourage this by having dedicated areas for such content. You would […]
Double edged
The Marketing Powerhouse that was and still is the Gillette Safety Razor Company, part 3
Here is the third in this fascinating series of articles by Matt Pisarcik of Razor Emporium: 1920’s: The New Improved The 1920’s brought with it the first major change to […]
Some traditional shaving bargains
Several times on this blog I have commented on the tenuous relationship between quality and price in traditional shaving. There are shaving soaps and creams with fancy names on them […]
My shaving brush collection, #2 the badgers
In part one we dealt with the boar, horse and synthetic brushes. Now it is time to deal with the badgers. As you can see I am a victim of […]
The different Lord razor blade brands.
Lord is an ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 company based in Egypt’s second city, the port of Alexandria. Their 2,200 employees make several billion razor blades a year (and lots […]
The Marketing Powerhouse that was and still is the Gillette Safety Razor Company, part 2
Here is the second in this fascinating series of articles by Matt Pisarcik of Razor Emporium: 1910’s: Wartime Sales & Ladies Shaving As the company moved forward with early success […]
My shaving brush collection
I have written here before about Acquisition Disorders (ADs) and for me the biggest is Shaving Brush Acquisition Disorder (SBAD). This is because there is more variety amongst brushes than […]
The Marketing Powerhouse that was and still is the Gillette Safety Razor Company, part 1
We are very lucky indeed that Matt Pisarcik of Razor Emporium, an expert on the subject, has agreed to write these articles that give us some fantastic background and context […]
Is the Iridium really dead?
In October last year the supply of Iridium razor blades, made by Petersburg Products International (PPI), suddenly dried up, retailers world wide could not get any more from anywhere. Once […]
Preservatives in shaving products
Today we have another guest writer, it is Krissy Yoder of the artisan soap maker Prairie Creations, who has written this fantastic article about some of the chemicals that go […]