Recommendation needed for 'disposable' razor for temporary use!

Well, as an experiment, I tried the Gillette Guard this morning - I'm shocked! I did my usual prep of hot towel, then ProRaso Red and proceeded. I completed a 3 x pass shave, and I ended up, after a bit of tidy up too, with a BBS finish. I never expected this, and it lead me to wonder, before DE, all the years I was dissatisfied with the 'plastic' multi blades, it was all down to technique, wasn't it?
 
Well, as an experiment, I tried the Gillette Guard this morning - I'm shocked! I did my usual prep of hot towel, then ProRaso Red and proceeded. I completed a 3 x pass shave, and I ended up, after a bit of tidy up too, with a BBS finish. I never expected this, and it lead me to wonder, before DE, all the years I was dissatisfied with the 'plastic' multi blades, it was all down to technique, wasn't it?
Yep. That and prep.
But shaving with a proper razor is more fun and saves money. o_Oo_Oo_O
 
I have a confession - having bought this razor for a very specific purpose and time frame, I am now on my 3rd cartridge at home! It's a very comfortable shaver, and with normal DE preparation, I get a really smooth shave. My pendulum had swung at the extreme end of the arc towards proper DE razors, and I derided plastic razors, but this one has my own pendulum firmly on the swing back!
 
Just returned from a couple days away. Always take a Gillette Sensor with me (bog standard handle)...plus a 15ml Nuage or BodyShop shaving oil container. No soap or cream - I just use the Premier Inn liquid soap from their wall mounted dispenser. Don't even bother using any home purchased shampoo or bodywash liquid.

And I always come back thinking.... why in the world did I spend the last year amassing many, many hundreds of pounds worth of DE shaving gear when the Sensor gives just as good a shave and never ever nicks me and takes less than five minutes, not 30 minutes? I can get a great shave in a steamy, misted up Premier Inn bathroom with no fancy, illuminated magnifying mirror. No blood, no Alum block, no nothing.

I mentioned the "denim" sharpening method on here a year ago, albeit no-one acknowledged it then or subsequently. But it works a treat.

If my barber hadn't loaned me a Gillette Tech for a couple of weeks I'd still be using the Sensor every day and would be a grand better off.

Such is life.
 
I stopped using my DEs and SEs a couple of years ago and went back to using a Sensor for travel and a Mach3 at home. I like them both and they give me excellent shaves with no fuss, no muss in about half the time it took me to shave with a DE or SE. When I travel, however, I take along a Muhle synthetic brush, a stick of Harris lavender soap, a small bottle of aftershave and a styptic pencil. Although I haven't had to use the styptic pencil since I started using my cartridge razors again I like to have it along "just in case". In the final analysis I get a comfortable, close shave more consistently with my cartridges than I ever did with my DEs and SEs. I don't know why I still have my DEs and SEs.
 
Its a good idea to take them off before honing, unless your a qualified Mohel:eek:

You may not realize it takes a kosher stone to sharpen that guy's tools of the trade. Same is true for the people working in the Jewish slaughterhouse......blade and stone have to be kosher.

Look for the Smiling Rabbi brand.

Moishe
 
Would I be sent to Coventry for daring to mention the Mach 3 disposable at this point?
I only mention them as they were on offer in Asda recently ( £2 for a pack of 5) so I picked a couple of packs up for my wife to use and ended up with a couple myself during a stay with the NHS whilst my kidneys and liver decided to have a little holiday from doing what they do best.
Light, reasonable shave and lasted 4 days before becoming draggy and being consigned to the burn bin.
 
The one thing I don't understand from reading threads of this nature is how on Earth do some people take so long with a DE? The only reason DE shaving takes longer for me is that building lather from soap is slower than squirting it from a can.
 
The one thing I don't understand from reading threads of this nature is how on Earth do some people take so long with a DE? The only reason DE shaving takes longer for me is that building lather from soap is slower than squirting it from a can.
DE shaving is more fun, so you take your time and do pass after pass after pass. A cartridge razor is no fun, so you whizz it around your face once and be done with it :D SCNR
 
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