Which is better electric or blade shaver?

Yes, the electric gives the lesser shave but mine is 10 yrs old and on its 3 set of blades

I use a blade on my neck if I'm going on a date.

"Kate Fights, I Cry"

BTW Learn to use "OT" when making off topic posts.

.......... Phil

Fascinating, absolutely fascinating the things one can learn on aus.electronics

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Far cheaper not to shave.

cheaper -

blades.

anytime,

Apologies Terry

Since there isn't an aus.electrical group for such things this seems the closest group by topic to post this question in...

On Tue, 10 May 2005 14:17:28 +0930, "Kate Fights, I Cry" put finger to keyboard and composed:

All my life I've used a blade. About a year ago I purchased an electric shaver and have never looked back. Now I wonder why I suffered for so long.

- Franc Zabkar

What are you apologising for. Mine was just as OT And the iconograph says it all {:-).

A mate and me travelled across the US a few years ago. I was grumbling about how I only managed to get three shaves out of a fairly expensive twin blade razor. He was shocked. He gets more than 3 MONTHS from a blade. I guess there are beards and there are beards.

My thoughts run like this:

A blade cuts the hair and leaves it with a sharp edge. For those of us with tough hairs, it can irritate our partner's skin. An electric razor, OTOH, shatters the hair and leaves it with a ragged end, which does not irritate our partner's delicate skin. And, I stress, that a razor does not cut as close to the skin.

BTW: If you do use a razor, DO NOT EVEN THINK about using soap or those silly foam things. Buy yourself some cheap Sorbolene cream. MUCH better for YOUR skin than soap.

Just my 2c worth.

I prefer the electric.

Had a philishave (basic mains powered model) for about 17 years, was great. When it finally died (AC motor went OC) I bought A new Philips aquagenic 8894, which was about $300 (bought it when out of australia) and much better still.

(I dont know how good other brands are, or how good the cheaper philips types perform so cant comment.)

These take a little bit of getting used to though, when I first started using electric, would get rashes and such, but after a couple of weeks or so they gradually dimninshed to nothing.

I would never use a blade after that, it does give a smoother skin, but no matter how careful I was - would often manage to cut myself in some way or another. Would also be lucky to get more than a few uses from a blade until it went blunt, so it turned out to be an expensive pastime.

Obviously no one showed Norman Gunston how to use an electric shaver without cutting himself. :)

In his interview with Sally Struthers (the daughter in "All in the Family") she asked him, "Why don't you use an electric shaver?"

Pause.

Gunston: "I do."

Cheers, Gary B-)

You mean do away with the shaving cream or foam and just the sorbolene cream. I'll try it...

I'm still amazed I fell for the advertising on TV before I purchased my shaver... Next time I'll think before spending $$$

You must be one of the unlucky ones. I get easily a month out of a blade. Electric's never held my fancy, i'll probably go down that path one day but until then, i'm happy with my cream and blade.

Plus, I've never cut myself bar when I first started shaving, and got stuck on pimples.

-mark