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Like a few here, microsoft to linux and reddit to fediverse.
Tidal to Qobuz, old spice to dove deodorant were all good but gillette razors to various safety razors has been the best I think.
Safety razor and/or shavette is such an eye-opener. You can buy a good shavette for €20 and 10 premium blades for €5. That's 500 shaves for the price of a month's worth of fancy quadrouple Gillette blades that suck ass.
Whereabouts do you buy your blades? I'm in Canada but fuck me sideways they've been hard to find. I found one retailer who was doing sample packs buy they didn't have any packs without at least one Russian set of blades which isn't much better than buying american...
Yeah Russia produces lots of blades, for Gillette too btw.
I actually tend to buy blades when I'm in the Middle East or India straight from a barber shop, but I've also bought from Gents.com on occasion. Looks like they do ship to Canada.
What blade is best for you depends on your skin and hair type. Feather (Japan) makes insanely sharp premium blades that dull quickly, they are loved by lots of people. Solingen (Germany) and Merkur (Germany) make more conventional blades similar to Gillette. And of course you can also get Gillette, there's nothing wrong with their double-edge blades except I have animosity toward the brand.
Interesting! Really reinforcing my idea that a sampler pack would be best. I'll take a look at gents (thank you for the link!) and then see if I can get anything comparable local.
Much obliged!