The series will feature expert insights from professional barbers, dermatologists, and shaving specialists, offering men a deeper understanding of how blade design, technique, and skincare all work ...

For the last few months, Andre Flöter has been shaving with a diamond-tipped razor blade. Cutting edge: These photos show the stages in which GFD, a German company, takes a carbide blade, adds a ...

In the 1980s, German company GFD (Gesellschaft fuer Diamantprodukte) began using a new method to create diamonds in the thinnest of layers artificially at a reasonable cost. In a technological ...

Why are razors so expensive? Because shaving is a science. There are more than 150 scientists with PhDs in topics like physics, materials science, and engineering in Reading, UK, that are watching ...

A new study took a microscopic look at razors to determine why they go dull when cutting soft material such as hair. The team found that the angle of the hair can have a big impact on how dull the ...

As anyone with a television knows, shaving razors are high-tech. Men’s razors have gone from one blade to six, and they feature vibrating blades, rubber fins to stretch the skin and gooey strips to ...

Shaving blades are made of stainless steel and coated with even harder materials such as diamond-like carbon. This is the reason why shaving blades are 50 times harder than human hair. Despite its ...

Dollar Shave Club, another startup from L.A.-based incubator Science, begins with a simple premise: They send all the dandy shave-oholics out there who love the idea of a close shave but hate the idea ...

Razors may start sharp, but even though they only cut soft hair, they become dull surprisingly quickly. Now we know why blades that cut soft materials lose their edges so easily, which should help ...