Make disposable razor blades last much much longer
use your arm to sharpen them again after each shave.

No, honest: consumerist.com/2010/03/make-your-disposable-razor-blade-last-for-20-months.html
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 9:55, 11 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

and regardless of all the options
Mach 3 is still the best on the market. Two blades tends to need more strokes, and more than three blades tends to drag on the face.

I recommend buying the blades in bulk. I got 10 brand new packs of 4 Mach 3 blades off eBay for for £33 which works out at about half price.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 12:44, Reply)

agree to that.
Mach 3 is the way to go.

Also I've noticed that Pound Shops sell razor blades that look very similar but I haven't had enough confidence to risk slicing my face off to try them yet.
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 13:06, Reply)

And Gillette
know that the Mach 3 is the most popular as could be seen in their recent campaign showing expensive sporty people knocking Mach 3 razors out of peoples' hands while they were shaving. The undertones of which were:
"Please stop using Mach 3 and use the Fusion that we spent a fucking fortune on and an even bigger fortune pursuading you to change."
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:25, Reply)

I prefer the Fusion to be honest
the blades are just so damned expensive. I've resorted to using my hair clippers and walking around with a perma-shadow
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 9:57, Reply)

Yeah
all that advert make me think was: "Sport stars are dicks"
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 10:32, Reply)

i've tried them
they're actually quite good. although i use them on my legs, not my face, they've never once cut me and they give a good, close shave
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 29 Mar 2010, 19:13, Reply)

Of the available fancy-schmancy modern razors...
...I agree.

However, I find I get a better shave with less irritation by using an old-fashioned safety or straight razor with a single blade (after the blood letting during practice, of course). Also, the blades are about fifty pence each.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 10:54, Reply)

I was with you
until I tried the vibrating one. I don't know how it does it, but the vibrating makes for a really really good shave
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 14:41, Reply)

I use the mach 3 vibrating one
but I use the standard (cheapest) blades on it. Works great.

But I don't understand why this thread has moved onto masturbation.
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 10:34, Reply)

yes, but THIS works, and convenientlyl
The forearm sharpening in reverse shaving motion is equivalent to using a sharpening steel: it will remove a built-up bead of dead metal at the edge, but still not change the profile of the blade. Effective more often than not, but for how long?

Swiping in the opposite direction (same as shaving) will actually sharpen the blade itself (do not attempt on your own skin [duh], that's why you pay for new blades: you can't stand it).

To quote one A. Hitler in an old cartoon in The New Yorker magazine (sorry I couldn't find the link): "I think I may say, without fear of contradiction..."

that this little gizmo works, and easily:

www.sustainablevillage.com/servlet/display/product/detail/41865

I mean, really, who cares? But I'm still rockin' on the same Mach 3 blade from New Years' and it's Easter now. I don't even know how much money I've saved.
( Squilliam but . . . . *I'm* the one with all the talent!, Sat 3 Apr 2010, 21:08, Reply)

now at
www.sustainablevillage.com/products/razor-saver

I just drag mine along my arm but as I use single blade safety razors it's cheap enough not to piss aroundresharpening then.
( SteamedCleaner, Wed 25 Aug 2010, 13:31, Reply)