The Schick handles are assembled by a Chinese company, as were your Gillette Profiles. All the various parts are made elsewhere and assembled then sent to a Gillette packaging plant as you have seen in Mexico for instance....
Folliculitis is not an ingrown hair. It is the infection of a hair follicle. Pseudofolliculitis barbae is an ingrown hair.
Ingrown hairs are hairs that have curled round and grown back into the skin. They produce raised red spots, which can sometimes become infected and turn into painful pus-filled sores. Ingrown hairs can be itchy and embarrassing, but they often go away on their own without having to do anything. Anyone can get them, but they tend to be more of a problem in people with curly or coarse hair. What causes them? Ingrown hairs have usually grown out of the skin, curled back round and re-entered the skin. Some curl back into the follicle without even exiting the skin. It can happen when the hair follicle becomes clogged with dead skin cells. This forces the hair inside it to grow sideways, which is much more likely to happen if the hair is already curly or coarse, and if you've recently shaved the hair.
Very true, but can a normal person tell the difference? When complaining of razor bumps etc. Very sloppy of me, but also now relevant too...
They've got factories all over (or subcontract to them), which the article conveniently fails to mention. I've got Atra carts from China, Trac II blades from both India and Poland, Sensor Excel carts from Brazil, and Silver Blues from Russia. But...what the article seems to be implying is that the expensive flagship models are being made at top-flight factories, such as the one in Boston, which accounts - at least in part - for the high cost of the cartridges. So far, I'm not seeing evidence that contradicts claims of location. Germany is not the US, obviously, but it's still an industrialized, Western country with presumably high worker costs. Do you know whether or not M3 or Fusion carts are made in the Vietnam factory?
That is an alternative name, isn't it? https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000823.htm Alternative Names Pseudofolliculitis barbae; Tinea barbae; Barber's itch
Check your assumptions, Saad. Just because your packages of ProGlide carts say "Made in Germany," that doesn't mean that applies to all Gillette blades in every model they make. As I just said above, I've got Gillette cartridges and blades made in factories all over the world.
All mach 3 cart packs in retail stores here, are also made in Germany. But I really don't know if these are made elsewhere too.
You guy are talking WAY above my pay grade. All I'll say is I spent 30+ miserable, irritation/pain filled years shaving with a Trac2 razor and canned goo. Since taking up "traditional" shaving using proper preshave technique, good shave soap and a "single" blade DE razor, I've used multiple safety razor types(DE, SE, Injector), I no longer get razor burn, bumps or irritation of any kind.
That article is stating that Pseudofolliculitis barbae and Folliculitis are the same. This does make life confusing for the layman...
You will be surprised how few workers are employed in highly industrialized automated environments...
Oh silly me, I totally excluded all other gillette razor cartridge models from the equation. Everything makes sense again.
Have you tried carts since adopting wet-shave prep methods? I commonly see cartridges linked with canned "goo," as though they're synonymous, but there's nothing that says the former has to be used with the latter.
No I wouldn't. I have no illusions about how P&G or Gillette work. I'm attempting to suspend cynicism for the sake of the discussion, but big business is big business.
Wouldn't that make it even more costly? High grade machinery requires a specialized staff that is hired on a yearly contract basis and they really take a lot of money.
One trained monkey can manage and support vast lines of robotic automation, or you negotiate on site support when you buy...
