Gillette Platinum Plus Part 1:

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. This will be part 1 of 3 in a series of blog posts about these Gillette Platinum Plus DE blades. I was really glad that they arrived a day early because I shave on Wednesdays and I do shave videos on Sundays and if I didn't get them yesterday, I would have not gotten to try them until this Sunday which would have been on camera. So lets get started. Part 1 is specifically about the Rockwell 6C White Chrome and these specific blades. Now onto the shave.

^ The set up was the same. I used coconut oil as a preshave, I went with my usual #4 base plate which is what I use with the Israeli Personna Reds. It was a good but not great shave. I ended up doing 1 full pass with the grain and got extremely close on my cheeks but I needed a lot more for my neck area so I went with half passes to clean that area up. I ended up doing 1 half pass with the grain after performing a full pass, followed by another half pass against the grain and that still wasn't quite enough. I finally got to where I wanted by performing another half pass with the grain in the same area. The blade itself felt comfortable but it was no where close to the comfort level of the Edwin Jagger DE89 has with these Gillette Platinum Plus blades and they are no where close to the comfort level that the Israeli Personna Reds are in this specific set up either. So I will be sticking with the Israeli Personna Red Platinum blades seen below in the Rockwell 6C with the #4 base plate.

Now onto the post shave. I had a few weepers on the very bottom of my chin from where I had gotten a little too close and a slight nick on the left side of my chin which was my fault due to me being slightly careless and I had a couple down and on the right side of my Adam's apple which is my usual trouble spot that always gives me grief no matter what I use which includes cartridges. The alum block had almost zero feel to it and I left it on for several minutes while I cleaned my shave cave up and rinsed out my brush and it closed up everything instantly so they were NOT very deep at all. The biggest surprise was the fact that the aftershave splash did NOT burn at all and it's loaded with alcohol. I used Soap Commander's Reflection and Skin Bracer that day to end Soap Commander October which is all I used for the month of October for both on and off camera. The next combination can be seen below.

^ This combo will be very interesting this coming Sunday. I really need to get a sampler pack for this razor because I've only found 1 blade that I like in this razor and that would be the standard Gillette Platinum blades. Whether they work well in this razor or not will be determined in another blog post at a later date. I did go to Walgreen's today and check to see if they still have these Gillette Platinum Plus blades and I was correct, they don't. Walgreen's also use to carry Head Blade's products but they didn't even have that. All I saw was some way overpriced Walgreen's branded crystal blades which cost almost nothing online versus $5 U.S. Dollars for 10 blades. I'm hoping that the Marvel razor top cap which has the correct angle machined into it and the highly polished oversized safety bars will make for a comfortable shave with these Gillette Platinum Plus blades.

Part 3 will be focused on the Leaf razor which will also be very interesting as well. I'm hoping that it won't be like a Gillette Mach 3 and slice me all to pieces but we will see. I'll make sure to use that razor with these blades off camera. Now the big question that a lot of people will be asking me is will I be purchasing another Edwin Jagger DE89 now that I have found these blades on EBay? My answer is no. I got 4 good years out of it before it started falling apart and before I finally ended up recycling it after it got to where I could not use a blade in it at all even with a different handle. That and it would have been more expensive to repair the DE89 that I had than it would have to simply buy another one which was completely sold out at the time mine failed. Another reason I'm not getting another one is the simple fact that these Gillette Platinum Plus blades are expensive and once they are gone, that's it. The EBay seller does have their own website and they don't even list these blades on it. So I see no reason of buying a razor that you personally know is going to fail at some point and not be able to get these blades for it later on down the road. Those are the reasons I'm not getting another Edwin Jagger DE89 in addition to having more comfortable razors.