We Tried Dollar Shave Club, Harry’s and Gillette—One Was Clearly the Best

From left to right, Gillette, Dollar Shave Club and Harry’s offerings. (Photo: Brady Dale for Observer)

I hate shaving.

Between a general dislike for hygienic chores, a coarse beard and sensitive skin, shaving is the worst of my life’s ablutions. Generally, I just don’t. My face could do with a daily shave, but instead I seldom get the razors out even twice per week. Sometimes I let it grow until people tell me they like my beard. It’s not a beard. I’m just lazy. So lazy, in fact, that I have a beard trimmer so that I can quickly rein it back into something more like a two-day stubble instead of actually just shaving, because I don’t like walking around for the next half-day feeling as though I’ve been slapped multiple times, which is how shaving makes my skin feel.

Among the facets of shaving I have hated most: buying razor cartridges at CVS for my Gillette MachWhatever, because their prices always struck me as unbelievable. “That much? For this little box? How can that be?” I would think.Continue Reading this Article

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