On November 15, 1904, patent #775,134 was granted to King C. Gillette for a safety ‘razor’. King Camp Gillette was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in 1855. To support himself when the family’s home was destroyed in the Chicago Fire of 1871, Gillette became a traveling salesman. This work led him to William Painter, [...]

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Over the past few weeks I decided to part with my Merkur razor and go back to other methods of shaving.  Why I did this I’m not quite sure, but in the end it turned out to be and interesting experiment.  Failed experiment to be exact.
I pulled out my old Braun Electric.  I wanted the [...]