Like all rituals, shaving also requires the right accouterments. Shaving gels, shaving creams , and aftershaves may come and go, but a trusty razor may become a lifelong companion, and the one you choose can change based on your skin and hair type. Looking for a new razor to add to your shaving routine?
Be sure to check out our other reviews of best face washes, shaving creams, and best moisturizers, too, so you — and your face — can look as sharp as possible. Schick has taken personalized shaving to a whole new place with the launch of its Hydro Skin Comfort product line. Got a shaving challenge? We particularly liked the stubble eraser version: This razor is perfect for those of us who like to be a little lazy with our shaving, skipping a few days for a more rugged look.
The Stubble Erase can handle up to 7 days of growth comfortably, without leaving your skin feeling prickly or uncomfortable. A proprietary stubble comb aligns hairs with the leading blade for a close shave, then 19 gel pools the colorful blue stripe on the top of the razor , infused with hydrating green tea help soothe and refresh your skin on a microscopic level.
This five-blade stack is easy to handle, and undeniably gives great results. The flip trimmer on the back is another nice touch and a 'hydrating gel reservoir' lube-strip should last as long as the blade does.
As with the GiIlette, there is a battery version of this with variable power control, although that control is of dubious usefulness in my opinion.
It is weirdly over-chunky, so you're arguably better off with the cheaper, non-powered version. This is another excellent option, again with a handy little flip-up clipper to do fiddly, sub-nose-type areas. It is a tad chunky — unlike Gillette's powered Flexball, which is barely different from its non-powered sibling, visually — and I don't quite know why you'd want three levels of power control.
But hey, it's there if you want it…. Lacking a Flexball, this is a step down for facial shaving from the ProGlide at 1, but it's still a very good performer, with a handy single blade on the rear for edging. The Styler also comes with little plastic combs for beard trimming, and a little tiny powered foil thing which I think is for doing your downstairs. It is not amazing for these purposes but it's still a versatile thing for the price.
Another version of the ProGlide, this takes the SkinGuard approach, with lubricating strips positioned both before and after the blades. The result is that it glides even more smoothly and safely over your dermis. Again, the down side here is that I find it glides so smoothly, it actually shaves less effectively, because the blades are fractionally further away from your skin, and in contact with the hairs for fractionally less time. More to the point, the SkinGuard takes a similar approach but is even more comfortable, due to only having two blades, leaving this older razor as a rather niche product.
Duncan has been writing about tech for almost 15 years and fitness ever since he became middle aged and realised he could no longer rely solely on his boyish good looks. He used to be on telly loads, but an unfortunate incident put a stop to that, so he now largely contents himself with telling people, "I used to be on the TV, you know.
Post-lockdown he is looking forward to wearing clothes other than shorts and hoodies again very soon, assuming he can still fit into them. The best steam cleaners and steam mops to clean and kill bacteria without harsh chemicals. A shave you barely feel Men's razor with Precision Trimmer on back—great for hard-to-reach areas and styling facial hair Shaving razor with Lubrication Strip that fades when you are no longer getting an optimal shave 1 razor blade refill equals up to one month of shaves Fits All Fusion5 Blade Refills.
Instructions: For optimal performance, keep your razor fully powered. Replace the Duracell AAA battery every months Precision beard trimmer for tricky spots like sideburns, under the nose, and around facial hair Indicator lubrastrip that fades to white when you are no longer getting the optimal Gillette Fusion shave.
The smaller head means sports-car like maneuverability along your chin and mustache area. This means spent shaving cream and cut whiskers are more easily washed away when rinsed between strokes—unlike the Fusion5, which packs five blades into an only slightly larger head, or the six-bladed Dollar Shave Club and Barbasol cartridges. The handles are cosmetically different but functionally the same: The difference is—at least on paper—in the blades.
According to Gillette, the Turbo blades are better at fighting irritation and have a more advanced lubricating strip. Watch out for counterfeits and off-brand compatible cartridges. They can cost as little as a buck per cartridge, but in our experience, they were face-mangling garbage. Not worth it. The Fusion5 is fast, smooth, and has great ergonomics. Our testers who liked it really loved it, many saying that it gave them the closest shave of any of the razors in our test pool.
But Fusion is also expensive, around twice the price of the Mach3. The Fusion5 got more top-three votes than any other razor we tested: Six of our nine testers placed it in that ranking. On the other hand, it garnered more negative comments, with some saying the higher blade count scraped against their skin, or the large head was harder to maneuver.
But for the majority of the complaints, the issue was that the five densely packed blades had to be rinsed more frequently. The edge trimmer was a necessity for me, and the blades wear incredibly well. All Fusion cartridges have five blades as well as a sixth cutting edge—used for trimming and precision grooming—at the top of the cartridge. They also all have a lubricating strip. How much lubricant is on that strip, and where the strip is placed, is a key difference between cartridges. Also, one of the varieties has a strip that has a cooling sensation.
We picked the basic, non-vibrating Fusion5 because it is a good place to start. Though the Fusion ProGlide and ProGlide Shield are sold as different razors, they use functionally the same handle—one with a ball-shaped pivoting mechanism the ProGlide handle has black accents; the ProGlide Shield handle is trimmed in yellow. The true difference between the two is in the cartridges. The ProGlide Shield adds a second, lower lubricating strip and a finer guide shaving term: comb for maneuvering your whiskers into the blades.
Again, you can mix and match, and with so many different possible permutations, you stay lathered in whisker novelty for a while. The weirdest competition to our picks are shadow offerings by Gillette itself. Take, for example, the Gillette3 and Gillette5. These use Mach3- and Fusion5-compatible cartridges on different handles.
However, our testers noted more irritation with the Gillette3 and Gillette5 cartridges than with the Mach3 and Fusion5 and absolutely hated the handles, which use what Gillette calls Aqua Grip. This design consists of a gel-like series of bands around the handles that, in theory, are supposed to give the user a firmer hold on the razor—whereas we found the opposite.
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