Razor blade
Escaping from the dark side. A road map
Due to being brainwashed by marketing there are tens of millions of men in the world who use multibladed system razors with patent protected cartridges that you can only buy […]
Fake Iridium blades
The Pogonotomy forum member mitsimonsta posted these pictures (and more) to the forum so that members could identify the fake Iridium razor blades that are currently being distributed and sold […]
Gillette don’t want to talk to me
Gillette make fantastic double edged (DE) razor blades at the Petersburg Products International (PPI) factory in Russia that they (or their parent Procter & Gamble) 65% own. But Gillette also […]
The Marketing Powerhouse that was and still is the Gillette Safety Razor Company, part 4
Here is the fourth in this fascinating series of articles by Matt Pisarcik of Razor Emporium: The One-Piece Razor The NEW razor was short lived and made way for the […]
Otoko Organics Wet Shave Essentials
After the disaster that was Durance hard shaving soap you would think that I would give up on experimenting for a while. But I need to generate content for these […]
Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor shaved their faces
Kate Somerville is a famous brand in women’s skincare. She has a range of skin products, has a clinic in Los Angeles and looks after the skin of many Hollywood […]
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 […]
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 […]