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So I basically used the same technique as I used to use with my mach 3 and ended up with an ultra-comfortable and very close shave! Cast from solid metal for optimal weight and balance, the Leaf Razor delivers a smooth and comfortable shave. Designed for timeless beauty, this razor will earn it's place as centre stage in your bathroom, the envy of friends and family! TSA did want to take a closer look at my razor –just once so far, flying out of Boston. The agent looked at the razor, and just asked me to remove the blades, which they confiscated. Of course, I kept the actual razor (and the stash of replacement blades that they didn’t notice in my toiletry kit, mwah-ha-ha!) Surely using a safety razor gets better with practice? But this was a much more real test: Instead of sitting down in a bath tub, I was standing up in a shower so small I didn’t even have enough space to bend down to my toes, so I had to awkwardly contort each leg upward. Instead of lathering with the fancy shave soap bar Leaf had sent me (and that I forgot at home), I used a sparse coating of my husband’s grandmother’s body wash.
I tried Leaf’s original, pivoting-head razor for the first time under subpar conditions: Jet-lagged, in a tiny Italian shower much smaller than I remember phone booths being. I didn’t put in nearly as much effort with the Leaf razor as I did with the two safety razors –but I got much better results. If you’re squeamish, DO NOT READ THE NEXT SENTENCE: As I drained the bath water, I found strips of my own skin at the bottom of the tub, sliding around like squishy, deflated, little worms.This was far more detail than I ever hoped to read about razors and blades, but as it turns out, there’s a lot of variation in sharpness between different blade brands. So if you try one you don’t like, you can try another. Don’t press down. Let that heavy-metal weight of your safety razor do the work, but don’t add any extra pressure. Leaf shave have re-invented wet shaving! With people turning away from plastic, Leaf have produced a razor and accessories that allows you to love and enjoy your razor while taking an environmentally friendly stance towards wet shaving. But the writer calls her safety razor, “an ‘easy win’ when it comes to living more sustainably,” and I just find that a little hard to swallow.
This isn’t a sponsored review. No one is paying me to write this. (I prefer it that way, because I like to feel free to write whatever I want… as you may have noticed.) Another factor contributing to a less close shave is that, as you may remember, I did everything wrong. (Well Kept and Albatross had the benefit of exfoliation, focus and shaving cream. The Leaf razor got none of that.) Cons of the Leaf Razor: After feeling a little traumatized by my first encounter with both the Albatross and Well Kept razors on a Sunday evening, I ignored them for a day or two. Either take them to a sharps collection point, or use some kind of “ blade bank” (a safe collection box), so that the people working at recycling facilities don’t get sliced. Use short strokes, especially when you’re just getting the hang of it. Because shaving with a safety razor is not like shaving with the plastic, pivoting-head razor you’re probably used to.
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The blades that come with Well Kept (Astra brand’s Superior Platinum) are sharp, but not sharpest around. In short, I didn’t learn anything that explained all the cuts. (I couldn’t find any data on Albatross’ blades.) Do metal razors rust?
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