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Shaving once required a skilled barber with a steady hand and a sharp straight razor. Any attempt to duplicate the act at home usually ended in bloodshed. In 1904, King Gillette introduced the first ...

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IT TOOK a leisurely 70 years after King Gillette invented the safety razor for someone to come up with the idea that twin blades might be—or, at least sell—better. Since then, the pace of change has ...

In 1904, King Gillette — who names their kid King? — received two patents on razors, blades, and the combination of the two. As the patents make clear, Gillette had a clear vision of the markets that ...

Two weeks ago, Procter & Gamble announced that it had purchased Gillette, manufacturer of the world’s best-selling line of men’s razors, for $57 billion. With the sale, the parent company also gained ...

It may seem silly to have a razor just for your neck, and truthfully it’s not something I would typically think was necessary, but this razor has been specifically designed with sensitive neck skin in ...

Was there ever a thing so misnamed as safety razors? Safer than what? For decades, men went to work with little pieces of tissue attached to their faces to staunch the bleeding. All the same, as city ...