Friday, October 22, 2010

Shave with the same blade for 22 months?



This story appeared at lifehacker and caught my eye not so much because it claims to extend the life of a razor cartridge for years or because it says to use no other prop but your arm, but more because what it basically proposes is to strop the blades, and that sounds somewhat reasonable.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I suspect he's either got a cast iron face, someone has been changing his cartridges, or is being funny.

ASR said...

I agree with the above poster. All the oil & sweat on his arm gets on his blades and would probably accelerate the rusting process.

I've heard of doing it with jeans, and while it may extend the life by a day or so, you really are only stropping one side of the blade.