After reading this Sharpologist article on blade sharpness, I had to try Treet Platinum Super Stainless blades. My old standbys were Astra Superior Platinum and more recently Gillette 7 O’Clock SharpEdge (yellow package), Personna Lab Blue, and Voskhod. I ordered some, and they arrived yesterday
I got together a few old friends to give it a go. That Mühle Cosmo brush is quite a guy: big, soft knot that feels like a warm cloud on your face. If you like a scrubby brush, run in the other direction. It has very nice HH (handle heft), and this morning it did a delightful job with D.R. Harris Rose shaving cream: thick, warm, fragrant lather that encouraged not doing a rush job, giving the lather the time to work its magic.
I picked the Maggard V3E (they call it the “V3A,” the “A” meaning “aggressive,” but it is fact a very comfortable—but very efficient—razor, so I go with V3E as a better name. The “aggressive” name makes it sound threatening and harsh) and loaded it with a Treet Platinum Super Stainless blade, fresh out of the double wrappers. I use a UFO handle with this head. YMMV.
By God, the Treet Platinum Super Stainless blade really is a very nice blade! I didn’t really doubt it, but there’s a big difference between abstract knowledge (something you’ve learned by reading, even in detail) and actual experience: experience is much richer, and so real.
The same thing is happening with the change in my diet: it all sounded very good, but the actual experience is still surprising. I’m a type 2 diabetic, and I changed my diet less than two months ago. The chart at the right shows what I saw this morning in my Contour NEXT One app. (The values are in mmol/L; in the US, mg/dL figures are more common.) The highest value in the “normal” range is 5.5 mmol/L, with 5.6 being “pre-diabetic.” The most recent two days my readings were 5.4 and 5.5, both in the “normal” range. I hope I see where this is going.
Three passes left a completely smooth (and nick-free) face, with no razor burn. Full disclosure: I picked the shave cream because in my experience a shaving cream provides a bit more cushion than a shaving soap, and I wasn’t sure about the blades. I need not have worried.
A good splash of D.R. Harris Pink After Shave, a favorite, and I’m standing, delighted, on the threshold of the weekend. Have a good day, gentlemen. I know I will.