 Hi, I'm Denshi. So if you've been around YouTube for the past five years or so, you've probably encountered an ad by a company like Dollar Shave Club or Manscaped. These subscription-based shaving companies would ship you a box of equipment every month or so and claim that it's a more affordable, better-way shaving. Now, they're a complete scam, and in fact, most of the modern shaving industry is a complete scam. And while you may save some money by using a subscription-based model like Dollar Shave Club, you're going to save nothing compared to the amount of money you could save by going back to traditional double-edged safety razors, the subject of this video. Now, before I start, I want to thank Jacob McCormick, who made an article about this. That'll be linked in the description if you want to check that out. And I also want to say that everything I'm talking about in today's video is unisex. So another way in which these companies get you is by being manscaped. We sell male shaving equipment when really a razor is a razor, and most of this stuff works on both sexes. So let's begin by talking about the modern razor blade model, which is the main way in which a lot of these razor companies make money. So imagine you go to the store, or maybe you get a gift, and it's a Gillette razor or a Beak razor, something like that, one of these cartridge-based razors. They generally tend to look like this. Now, this is actually a throwaway razor, one of these, you use it once and you throw it away razors, but just for illustrative purposes, I'll just show it to you. And you get one of these razors, and it comes with a few cartridges, and you use it and it's fine for two weeks, and then you want out of cartridges. If you go to the store, you've got to get some new cartridges. And so you go to the store and they cost like $25. And that's a lot of money for shaving, something that pretty much a lot of people have to do. And so while you give in and you buy this stuff, and you start spending a lot of money on shaving when really you should not. So here's the problem, they're giving away the razors for very small sums of money at a loss, really, and then they're selling these razor cartridges for a big markup. That's how they make their money, that's how they scan you. And so the problem with this kind of stuff is that obviously it costs a lot of money, but there's also other implications, like for example, they're locking you into a specific ecosystem. If you buy a Gillette razor, you've got to get Gillette cartridges. If you buy a Beak razor, you've got to get Beak cartridges. It's a pretty bad solution, you know? And so what I'm getting at with this video is that it doesn't have to be this way. It can be better. We can ascend. And that is by using a double-edged traditional safety razor. And just in case you don't know what that is, that's the razors that people used to use before all this cartridge madness started to happen. And so here's an example of one. This is a Merkur 34C. Now this type of razor was made in Germany about in 1931, that kind of time. They've been making it for a long time. You can still buy them brand new because they just keep making them. And this is this C1 is the chrome-plated one because the original ones were probably made of like some other metal. But this is pretty good. This is what I use. It's one of those milder ones. So it's, you know, not for like intense beards. And yeah, I like it. But the great thing about double-edged safety razors is they all use the same type of blade. Now here's a pack of 100 Astra blades. So this one over here costs about maybe $10. And so that's 100 blades, one of which you'll probably use, I don't know, three to four times and maybe you shave every three days. And doing that math really quickly, you'll be spending about maybe 30, 35 years and be 30, 35 blades every single year. And that will amount to, well, about $3, $4 of spending on the actual blades, depending on whether you buy them in bulk or not and how you buy them. But if I buy 100 like this, this will last me for like a good three years, probably. And so there you go. That's a lot cheaper and a lot better. And honestly, I really enjoy shaving like this a lot better. This is a little stubby little one, so it can go into like a lot of angles, really good for when I got to shave my beard before I make videos because I got to look my best for this 720p camera. And yeah, I mean, that's the best way to shave. You've probably been scammed your whole life by shaving companies, by buying other types of razors, cartridge-based lock-in razors. And I just want you to think about how absurd it is that something as simple as razors has ecosystems to it. There's a Gillette ecosystem for razors. That's ridiculous. It should just be one universal type of shaving that works with everyone to increase the competition. But instead, they lock you in and they do all this stuff. And so that's just kind of the situation people are in, but you can ascend. You can do it the best way or whatever way you want to put it. So yeah, I've been Denchie. This has been a video about shaving goodbye.