# Question about Gillette razor refills **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 10, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-gillette-razor-refills/383589 "2006-12-10T19:05:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-gillette-razor-refills/383589/21 "2006-12-11T18:03:11Z")
[QUOTE=Rubystreak] Boyfriend has both the Fusion and the Mach 3 (overlapping gifts from prior years), so which blades are the ones to get? They cost a shitload and I want to get the right ones. [/QUOTE] Yesterday, I bought refills for my Mach 3 for the first time in three or four years. My last four-pack lasted that long, and I shave probably six times a week. I’m 45 years old, and I don’t think I have an especially light beard or anything, the blades just seem tolerable for months each. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-gillette-razor-refills/383589/22 "2006-12-12T00:52:10Z")
Ah, yes – that’s another useful datum: Y’know the color strip on some refills that’s supposed to tell you when it’s time to change? Bogus. The time to change is when it stops shaving smoothly, whatever color the strip has turned or not turned. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-gillette-razor-refills/383589/23 "2006-12-12T05:16:58Z")
I use the vibrating Mach 3 (M3?), but I buy the original Mach 3 blades because they’re much cheaper. Any bets on when Schick bites the dust? Their 3- and 4-blade attempts have been awful. I’ve gotten their free razors in the mail, and tried them out. Felt like I was shaving my head with a potato peeler! I went right back to my Mach 3. ---
**Author:** ![iwakura43](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de0a6/32.png) [@iwakura43](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iwakura43)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-gillette-razor-refills/383589/24 "2006-12-12T06:14:15Z")
[QUOTE=CurtC] Yesterday, I bought refills for my Mach 3 for the first time in three or four years. My last four-pack lasted that long, and I shave probably six times a week. I’m 45 years old, and I don’t think I have an especially light beard or anything, the blades just seem tolerable for months each. [/QUOTE] Months! :eek: Back when I used Mach 3’s I switched them out after a week or two because they weren’t as smooth as new. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-gillette-razor-refills/383589/25 "2006-12-12T15:30:19Z")
just tried the powered Schick Quatro razor. That was weird. Like rubbing a sharp back massager around my face. ---
**Author:** ![mazinger\_z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mazinger\_z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mazinger_z)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-gillette-razor-refills/383589/26 "2006-12-12T15:44:05Z")
Has anyone seen one of those late night commercials either on Comedy Central or Sci-Fi Channel where there is a blade for like $15 that doesn’t need to be replaced. It’s a vibrating blade and it’s made out of titantium or something. Ugh, I wish I was more awake to remember. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-gillette-razor-refills/383589/27 "2006-12-12T17:27:50Z")
[QUOTE=mazinger\_z] Has anyone seen one of those late night commercials either on Comedy Central or Sci-Fi Channel where there is a blade for like $15 that doesn’t need to be replaced. It’s a vibrating blade and it’s made out of titantium or something. Ugh, I wish I was more awake to remember. [/QUOTE] My bogosity alarm started honking at “doesn’t need to be replaced.” Bo. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Gus. There is a whole flock of pocketknives with blades coated with titanium, for appearance, mostly. I’ve never seen one where the actual blade was titanium. It’s possible, I suppose, but would that give you a forever edge? I don’t think so. I’m not a metallurgist, just a knife collector. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-gillette-razor-refills/383589/28 "2006-12-12T20:00:56Z")
[QUOTE=mazinger\_z] Has anyone seen one of those late night commercials either on Comedy Central or Sci-Fi Channel where there is a blade for like $15 that doesn’t need to be replaced. It’s a vibrating blade and it’s made out of titantium or something. Ugh, I wish I was more awake to remember. [/QUOTE] Lifetime warranty. Free replacements. You only pay shipping and handling. How can you possibly go wrong, even if it doesn’t really work? ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-gillette-razor-refills/383589/29 "2006-12-12T22:23:31Z")
[QUOTE=rocksolid] Hmmmm, have to chip in here. Forgot my razor an a recent business trip, figured i would treat myself to the new fusion power. What a bloody waste of money. I swear i can’t get as close a shave as i did with my Mach 3. And with more than a day or two’s growth i’m sure it’s much more painfully ‘tuggy’ than the old 3 blade. And what is with the power thingy exactly? I tried it twice and have never switched it on again since. Having spent so much cash i’m going to finish off this pack of refills but thereafter i’m going back to my Mach 3. Yeah i know this is GQ but you asked. [/QUOTE] That’s because you didn’t use the recommended shave cream. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-gillette-razor-refills/383589/30 "2006-12-14T01:21:51Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] I hate to admit this, as I know I look like a victim of marketing here, but the Fusion Power is genuinely the best razor I’ve ever used. [/QUOTE] I have to agree with this. When my wife and I split up at the beginning of October, I found myself temporarily without a razor, so I went to the store and bought one. It came with one blade. _ **I’m still using that blade!!!** _ I was going to buy some more at the store the other day but they were out of them, so I figured I can get another week out of it and it’s still working just fine. ---
**Author:** ![motomoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@motomoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/motomoon)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-gillette-razor-refills/383589/31 "2006-12-14T13:52:23Z")
I got sent a Fusion in the mail for some reason, now this thread is making me **want** to go shave just to try it out. ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-gillette-razor-refills/383589/32 "2006-12-15T15:21:25Z")
[QUOTE=jasonh300] I have to agree with this. When my wife and I split up at the beginning of October, I found myself temporarily without a razor… [/QUOTE] Let me guess - you got the big screen TV, she got the razor? ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-gillette-razor-refills/383589/33 "2006-12-16T02:07:50Z")
[QUOTE=CurtC] Let me guess - you got the big screen TV, she got the razor? [/QUOTE] No, but she got the house, which was where I kept my old razor :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-gillette-razor-refills/383589.md?page=1)