Monday 7th February
Ganders Goat Soap w/Hop, Sage & Birch
Signature Soaps Britannia Shaving Soap
Yaqi Dandelion w/Cashmere Synthetic 24mm
Gillette Labs Exfoliating & Gillette Labs Cartridge (1)
Brut Splash-On
Wow! That was a straight-up 10/10 shave.
First go with Gillette Labs latest offering, a non-powered razor with an exfoliating strip in place of the heated bar on their powered heated razor and uses the same cartridge as the heated razor.
Remember, I'm a single pass shaver generally and only really press on if everything comes together so perfectly and even then only do a second pass. Well, what I might get off a two pass shave with my best DE razor and blade combo I was surprised to get off a single pass with this cartridge. In some respects I should expect that since the cartridge is shaving me five times for every pass with a DE but then when we shave with our DEs, we do go over in short, brishing strokes whereas the cartridge format can be run in longer stripes as the blades are setup to progressively shave closer as each blade hits the hair.
I can't put it down to the exfoliating bar since I can't actually feel that it would do anything. It's just a nubbed strip of slippery plastic. I think, perhaps, the cartridge itself is a better technology than, say, the ProGlide cartridge. While the ProGlide is a development of the regular Fusion and the ProShield a development of the ProGlide, this cartridge does feel to be the next logical step from the ProShield. The razor, too, is very nice to use and to my mind addresses practically all of my irks with the Fusion razor which I find the FlexBall a bit, well, primitive? Handle, angle, length, grippiness, intuitiveness? All improved with this format. Surely it'll be the next gen Gillette in a few years time.
Very much enjoyed.
Damn shame these Gillette Labs cartridges are so damn expensive! Well, actually all their cartridges are but at least Supermarkets do reasonable offers every now and again, and that's when I but new packs in. Unlikely to find the Labs cartridges in the supermarket just yet.