Heya,

I’ve been looking into razors and trimmers to take care of facial and body hair, including sensitive areas. Just looking up these products shows that pretty much anything as explicitly male or female marketed, including not just stereotypical elements like colour and such, but also explicitly calling themselves “for men” or “for women”.

Is there anything to this label? Does it actually make any difference or are these just arbitrary visual differences?

Also, do people here have good recommendations for what to go for? It’d be nice to have something that maybe makes it a little easier than using disposable normal razors, as that’s associated with some major constant effort and has some less fulfilling results in sensitive areas.

Thanks for reading!

  • @grueEnglish
    12•5 days ago

    The plain old double-edge safety razors that I (cis m) use for my face and my wife (cis f) uses for her sensitive areas etc. take exactly the same (standard) blades.

    In fact, the blades only vary by non-gendered things like sharpness and cutting angle. We bought a sampler pack off Amazon for maybe $10 quite a long time ago and haven’t used it up yet.

    The razors themselves are slightly gendered (mine has a short black handle; hers has a longer silver handle with neat blue mid-century starbursts), but that’s only because we chose them to be.