my best shave with gillette super silver/feather popular

[dantes]

Hi,

Last week I was in France and I bought two kinds of gillette in a drugstore.

bleue extra 1.66€
super silver 4.23€

I tried a super silver in my mild feather popular lathering with tabac soap and i get and incredible BBS: smooth, irritationfree and ingrown hairs free.

Although I can get the same result with feathers, feathers give me ingrown hairs in the chin area ans the ATG pass is not so smooth.

I am surprised nobody disscuss these blades more often.

[JayKay]

For 9$ a pack, I might as well use an Mach 3

[dantes]

I tried for 2 days a bleue extra.

results are identical but the shaving sensation are quite different. I get the impression this one is less smooth and pull a little. Nevertheless I get no irritation and the price is quite lower.

Who knows why there are such a big price difference?

[dantes]

Hi,

I tried a super silver in my mild feather popular lathering with tabac soap and i get and incredible BBS: smooth, irritationfree and ingrown hairs free.


i am using those two blades since august now and switched from the feather popular to the portable.

I realise that the bleue extra give me a longer lasting bbs although not as smooth as super silver.

With the portable I get 3 perfect shaves from BE and 4 from SS. Considering the price difference I won't recommend SS: 1 more shave but a weaker ones and 2.5 the price!

[JayKay]

It deffinetly upsets me that all the blades I like are over 2$ a pack.

[JimR]

You use a feather popular? And it's mild?

This is the plastic twist-to-open?

I might pick one of those up...

[dantes]

You use a feather popular? And it's mild?

This is the plastic twist-to-open?


i used both the platisc popular and the all metal 3 pieces portable.

the portable provides a closer shave and is cheaper (pauldog seller on SMF) .

[JimR]

Yeah, I have already ordered one from PaulDog.

I live in Japan, so I can get the portable pretty easily; I just never thought it was worth it...maybe I was wrong!

[dantes]

I live in Japan, so I can get the portable pretty easily; I just never thought it was worth it...maybe I was wrong!

you mean the plastic one as it's the only one that's still produced.

i learn to de shave with it and get hardly cut/irritated but a popular shave is short-living, at least for me.

i wont advise to buy it if you already know how to use a DE razor.