I have an average beard and I can get 7 good shaves from the Dorco 300 blade. I have read that the 300 and the 301 are basically the same but the 301 uses more costly packaging so it costs a bit more than the 300, but some dispute this and claim that the 301 is not the same as the 300.

One 300 blade lasts a week for me so my supply of 200 blades is enough for several years, but I might experiment with other brands just for fun because it is easy to find many varieties at affordable prices online.

But I decided to give cartridge razors another shot — I think it was after seeing an episode of Heroes where one of the characters chastises another for showing up with a cut on his face, saying he clearly doesn’t own a proper razor. So a few months ago I switched to Schick Quattro with titanium blades, and I haven’t had to pull out my stiptic pencil once since then. Zero blood, nada, in months. The blades seem to last longer as well.

The only real downside is that if I skip a day or two the longer whiskers tends to get stuck between the blades and I was changing blades prematurely. Now I keep an x-acto blade next to my razor; it only takes 15 secs to poke the hairs out those days I need to. I still use a badger hair brush and glycerin shave soap, but I’m probably done with DE razors. It was fun, but I much prefer never having to worry about that last minute nick right as I’m walking out the door.