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Val –
Buen producto
Kainoa68 –
This product is so good it makes me feel I’ve been shaving the wrong way my entire life! Its curved to fit perfectly in my hand and its ergonomically balanced handle applies just the right direction, control, and pressure to the blades for a clean, smooth, close shave with no irritation. This close shave is aided by a plastic strip that gently stretches the skin and a lubrication strip that really works. The blades stay just as sharp as the first shave after many uses and they rinse cleanly with little effort. I’ve tried more blades and less but the Mach3 is just the right amount of blades and they are spaced just right. You can tell a lot of thought went into the development of this product. Well done! I wholeheartedly stand behind the Gillette Mach3 Men’s Razor and whole heartedly recommend you try one to upgrade your shaving experience. Gillette never ceases to disappoint!
Hunter L. –
Short version: this is still the best razor out there. Buy it.
Medium length version: I have tried all the Gillette gear up to their newest fanciest thing, I’ve used electrics including the top-of-line Panasonic and Braun, and I’ve used double-edge safety razors. I recommend the Mach3 and Mitchell’s Wool Fat Shaving Soap applied and face-lathered with a silvertip badger brush. Also, it turns out technique matters a ton, something I never knew until I started using the double-edge. Learn how to shave right and this tool will give you a killer shave every time.
Really unnecessarily long version:
Gillette sent me one of these for my 18th birthday, which is now half my life ago. It was their new thing at the time. I used it until they came out with the Fusion, then used that. I was never completely happy with either of those options; I have a tough beard and relatively sensitive skin, so I never got super close shaves and if I shaved two days in a row I got pretty fierce razor rash. So I pretty much only shaved every other day or less, which was OK until I got a job where I wanted to be clean shaven every day.
My first response to that problem was to try electrics out. I actually tested a few different models and landed on the top of line Panasonic. It did what I wanted in terms of letting me shave every day without discomfort, but the shave wasn’t as close as the Gillette equipment. That was pretty much fine…if I had a date or an important meeting I’d shave with a blade that day, and otherwise it was good enough.
Then one day in idle conversation, I remarked that I wasn’t completely satisfied with the quality of my shaving, and a coworker of mine told me I needed to switch things up. He suggested using a double-edge razor (the old-school safety razor with the actual blade instead of a cartridge) and shaving soap with a brush instead of foam or gel. He even loaned me a brush and a razor (a pretty baller Gillette from the 1960s, with adjustable pitch) to try it out.
At first I had difficultly. But he shared some tips and tricks, and I read some stuff online about face lathering, paying attention to the grain of your beard, technique, etc. And I got pretty good. I bought my own brush and razor (actually a couple, but eventually settled on a Merkur “Sledgehammer Slant” which is basically the most aggressive safety razor on the market), tried a ton of different blades (settled on Feather) and soaps (settled on Mitchell’s Wool Fat at home, Harris & Co. shave stick while traveling), and basically geeked out on the whole thing. If this sounds like a lot of trouble to go to, well it was. But I was getting much better shaves than I ever had before, which made me pretty happy. It did take a bit longer to shave, and occasionally I’d nick myself worse than I would have with a cartridge, but overall I was quite pleased.
For the last few years, however, I’ve been traveling quite a bit for work. You can’t take double-edge blades on an airplane in a carry-on. So I was checking a bag everywhere I went, even though typically I’d only be out for a few days. I didn’t really consider how much of a pain this was…it was just kind of habitual. Meanwhile, at some point somebody gave me a Harry’s cartridge razor for some reason. It just sat around for several months, but then I had a business trip coming up that was going to start with dinner the night I arrived, close enough to my landing time that I really didn’t want to have to wait around for a checked bag. So I tossed the Harry’s razor in my carryon and left my beloved slant-bar at home. I wasn’t really looking forward to it.
And then I got a really great shave! I was a bit shocked, but there was no question, it was vastly better than I had ever gotten with a cartridge razor previously, and in fact about as good as I’d get with the double-edge on one of my best days. In retrospect, I think two things were happening: first, shaving soap and a brush really are way better than canned shaving cream, and second, I had learned all this technique when using the double-edge, which turned out to also be useful with the cartridge.
In any case, I kept using the Harry’s razor for a little while, but it had a problem with clogging, so I jumped on Amazon and bought this Mach3 and also a Fusion5 ProShield. Both of them shave great. But I think the Mach3 does just a bit better, and also the blades are about half as expensive. Now that I know what I’m doing, I can knock a shave out in just a couple minutes, or I can take another few minutes and do a two-pass, really superlatively close shave. It’s really pretty fantastic, and I wish I’d have learned all that back when I was a teenager.
So, the moral of this story is summed up in the medium length version: I’ve tried everything (except a true straight razor…maybe someday, but for now that’s too much trouble even for me), and the Mach3 is the best shaving tool available. If you aren’t getting good shaves with it, you’re probably doing it wrong. Go with the grain (more complicated than it sounds…my grain is different on each side of my face for example) for the first pass, and if you’re looking for that date-night smoothness lather up again and take another pass very gently against the grain. Some folks even take three passes, going 90 degrees across the grain in between the with and against passes. Depending on your beard, you might get shaves you find acceptable with regular shaving gel or whatnot; if you don’t, pick up a good brush and some soap. Google face-lathering, and in particular I recommend the “load and hydrate” method as the soap/water ratio matters more than you would think. Anyway the main point is that even though shaving seems like a simple thing that most of us have been doing for a long time and not thinking much about, it turns out there’s a lot of knowledge out there that can be quite helpful.
I realize this story was ridiculously long. But I really hope somebody reads it and ends up getting killer shaves when they weren’t before. If you can’t already tell, I’m awfully happy about it.
Janae Hahn –
I’ve been using Gillette for years and I probably will forever. However, this is the 2nd time I’ve gotten the box that is supposed to come w a razor on a stick AND 2 refills.
Unfortunately both times I’ve only gotten the one on the stick and the one refill. Such a bummer!
Janae Hahn –
I used a Mach3 for years until my handle looks so old and worn out I thought it was time for an upgrade. I got a Gillette Fusion and was very disappointed in it. The five blade cartridge is huge compared to the Mach3 which means that it doesn’t stay close to your skin on curves where only some of the blade are actually contacting the skin. For five blades it seemed like it didn’t cut as close also, which meant I had to go over the same area more times and it caused skin irritation more than the Mach3. I thought I’d switch to a Harry’s. Nope same thing but worse. Also, the blades don’t stay sharp as long as the Mach3 or Fusion. The cartridge is also designed weird so that when the head of the razor is flexed, there are two plastic prongs that stand out and press against your face. More an annoyance than anything.
Well after that, I went back to a Mach3 and my shaves couldn’t be better. Quick, close and affordable! Don’t buy into the hype.
Brett –
Just as good as the 5 blade razors, in my opinion – the only thing that I don’t like is the razor cartridges pop off if you bang the razor stick too hard on the edge of the sink.
TheDailyConsumer –
I tried one of those Harry’s razors when I got it as a gift and used that for a while, awful. I had so many razor bumps and I grown hairs and cuts, I had one cut with the Mach 3 and I didn’t even feel it, I just saw the blood. Shaves smooth, rinses out well. Everything about this razor is great, I will be buying this again and I would recommend to the best of friends. Great razor, don’t buy Harry’s just go with this, learn from my mistake!
SnailGail13 –
These are not just for men, women should be using these as well! They are much better than any woman razor I have used. My husband had suggested years ago that I use a men’s razor instead and I took him up on it a few years ago. Decided to get one for myself so we could stop swoping out the blades when we used it! Hope this helps someone!