Switching to a Safety Razor

So for years I've been using the standard Gillette razors such as Mach3 and more recently the Gillette Fusion, their fine and all but I still suffer from razor burn and skin irritation due to the way that Mach3's and Fusions work.

Basically these cassettes loaded razors use whats referred to as hysterisis, basically the razor pulls the hair out and hacks it off. This is fine and all but it also irritates the skin a fair bit. In addition if you lather up your skin properly your razor should not need to pull out your hair.

So yesterday I took the plunge and bought myself my first Safety Razor a Merkur 570 Chrome "Progress" from theshaving-shack.cm, initially its kinda expensive but when you compare that a single blade for a Gillette Fusion costs about 3.50e and a single blade for a Safety Razor costs 50e and does a better job its worth it.

There is however an important thing to remember, using a Safety Razor is more of "art" then using a normal bog standard razer it is worth watching videos by the Shave Tutor on youtube to get an idea of whats involved.

However if the media were to be believed you'd think that I'm stepping back in time to using a device that is inferior just because it doesn't come with a "shaving system" or some sort and cost a fortune to use. More and more people are getting pissed off with these "systems" and there is a growing numbers of people on the internet switching to safety razors due to the reasons outlined above.