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Consumer Reports took a close look at women's shaving blades. They had a panel of 18 women shave their legs with a variety of razors and the results are stunning. Every razor they checked had the same quality.
There was no difference from the cheapest, the CVS 6-Blade Razor at 80 cents, to the most expensive blades, the Gillette Venus Embrace, followed by Schick Intuition Plus Sensitive Care and the Schick Quattro for Women; all priced right around $4 each.
It means you can buy five of the CVS blades for what you'd pay for one of the Schicks or Gillettes. Or to put it another way, the CVS blade is one-fifth the cost of the name brand.
Here's a bit more advice for ladies: Do not leave the razor sitting in the shower. It's the moisture from the shower, not the actual act of shaving, that destroys the blade over time. Take the additional step of drying it off and setting it somewhere else in the bathroom away from moisture for longer use.
Using that combination of buying the store brand and drying it each time, you may cut the cost of shaving to one-fiftieth.
There's also a service called DollarShaveClub.com.
This razor club for men and women will put you on a monthly subscription plan and send you a new razor each month. There's a $1/month razor plan, a $6/month plan and a $9/month plan. It lets you lock in low costs without having to dry the blade after each use like me.
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