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The cartridge razor is a subscription in disguise: a plastic handle designed around expensive, disposable, unrecyclable heads. A metal razor breaks the cycle: one purchase, standard blades for pennies, and a recycling tin for the spent ones.

• plastic cartridge systems with lubricating strips and proprietary refillsa metal razor that takes standard blades, plus cream refilled by the ounce
• 1. Pick your razorSingle-edge. The classic safety razor: simple, precise, and gentle once you slow down. Butterfly models swap blades with one push.Triple-blade, in metal. The familiar multi-blade glide without the plastic: full-metal heads that take standard blades.Dermaplaner. For facial peach fuzz, over in the Face section.
• 2. Lather + careShave cream by the ounce. Refill your jar; the plant-based formula doubles as a moisturizer, so aftershave lotion is optional.Shave bar. A vegan bar you lather with wet hands or a brush. No package at all.Stands, cases + grips. A stand that dries the razor between shaves is what makes it last decades. Travel cases and shower grips keep it safe everywhere else.
• About the bladesNearly every blade is coated. Razor blades are almost universally finished with a PTFE (Teflon) coating for glide. It is invisible, it is on blades sold as plain steel, and almost nobody mentions it.So we buy Albatross. They deliberately produce blades without that coating. Normally a product that misses our standard simply is not on the shelf, and you never have to think about it. Ask for blades and this is the pack we hand you.One blade, either razor. An Albatross blade snaps cleanly in half, and each half fits a Leaf razor. So one uncoated pack covers a classic safety razor and a Leaf alike.You will still see Leaf blades here. We are selling through the stock we already bought. If you are choosing today, take the Albatross.Pennies each, then recycled. Blades cost cents rather than dollars. Collect the spent ones in a blade tin, and a full tin goes to steel recycling instead of loose blades in your trash.
• foaming cans with propellantscream from your own refilled jar, or a bar and a brush

You should not have to research a razor blade. The hard calls are made before anything reaches this shelf, so you can pick up whatever is here and trust it. New to safety razors? Slow, light strokes and a fresh blade do the work; ask us where to start.