Hidden razor blades
Hidden razor blades
The razor blades are intentionally hidden from view in the packaging.
This is the back of the package. https://i.imgur.com/UMK0a4g.jpeg
I dont understand why it matters to see the blades?
You don't even have them on the shelves here (DE). There's just cardboard and you get the razor blades at the checkout. It's just quick stolen goods that always find a buyer.
Razors are a high theft item so I believe the argument is this style of packaging makes them harder to steal
I thought you meant that the package has 3 blade heads, but the shelf tag says 5 blades. ;)
I will say the “8x” with a picture of blades next to it definitely throws me off
That's because some idiot signed off on graphic design that says 8x instead of "contents: 8 razor heads" or w/e. I've worked a lot of distribution over the years and there's a lot of poorly described contents even in boring print on brown box stuff out there.
The upside is that in this way they use less plastic. Cardboard can't be transparent and people doesn't separate the plastic from the cardboard when recycling.
We all know what razor blades look like so a photo can suffice, no?
I linked an imgur post of the back of the packaging. It is made from clear plastic, and the blades are hidden behind black paper.
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It's expensive up front, but I switched to a leaf razor years ago i just had buy a new pack of 100 razors for 19 bucks. I use 3 at a time, but they last a long time.
They last a long time, are cheaper, I get a better shave (especially since moving to a puck and horsehair brush), and I don't generate nearly any plastic trash.
I can't recommend moving over enough.
I agree. Some people even get so caught up in Wetshaving that they run a Lemmy instance dedicated to it.
I just dry shave with a saftey razor and it's still a closer and more comfortable shave than all this hyper-marketed plastic garbage with multiple shit quality blades. The razor was already perfected long ago, but quarterly growth demands landfills filled with trash.
PS: there's no reason for a saftey razor to be an expensive upfront cost unless you're buying a huge bulk of blades upfront. Any cheap stainless steel handle will do, for practically the same cost as you'll end up spending after the first time replacing this price-gouged plastic. A stainless steel saftey razor is priced at $10-$20 and will outlive you.
PPS: it drives me up the WALL every time I see a Gillette "Labs" (🙄🙄🙄) commercial, as if there's supposed to be some team of scientists and engineers in a laboratory experimenting with new ways to shape a piece of plastic. Who are they fooling??? They're just a marketing company with a razor department.
PPPS: all the "wet shaving" creams and lotions and balms and oils and lathering brushes and special towels and aftershave and who knows what are ALSO just marketing insanity. If you have an issue with razor burn, just apply a small amount of 100% aloe vera, which is soothing and naturally antibacterial (razor burn is just your immune system going to town on all the bacteria introduced to your skin by your likely dirty razor), after shaving. You can use a patch of denim from an old pair of jeans to sharpen a saftey razor if it feels rough on your skin.
I use muhle’s open comb head with feather blades.
Can’t go back to cartridge shavers.
(And for the love of all that is holy people, dump the goop. TOBS cream, or even the expensive French soaps like Martin D’Candre are less expensive per shave and just better.)
Honnestly those razor-blades are a scam and I spend a lot less money since I switched to safety razors. A bit more technical to use but totally worth it I think