With plastic waste top of mind, shouldn’t shaving products be next? Adam McDowell makes the case for switching to a safety razor
My morning routine took a heavy turn about five years ago, when I started shaving with a chunky, old-fashioned safety razor from a Toronto store called MenEssentials . The part of the pitch that really sold me was a sustainability argument of sorts: Owner Seth Harman put a Merkur razor made of brass, zinc and chrome in my hands and said it could last me the rest of my life.
“I ask people, ‘What’s one thing you do every day that is really wasteful?’ Shaving is usually something that comes up,” Robicheau says. Last fall, around the time she opened Eco + Amour, she stopped buying razor cartridges in bulk at the big-box store and tried out a traditional safety razor instead. She was hooked. A safety razor, she says, “is better for the environment, better for your wallet, it does the same job and it looks better.
Well Kept co-owner Emilie Johnson says the biggest barrier for new converts to safety razors – beyond the appearance, which can be a little forbidding if you’re used to disposables – is the few moments it takes to figure out how to take apart the three pieces, put a new blade in place and screw it all back together.
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