RazorPit review
29 June 2010 in Accessories, Reviews and tests
The RazorPit - reviewed by Shaving Detective
One of the reasons I started the ShavingDetective website, was the frustration I felt every time I had to buy new cartridges for my Gillette and Wilkinson shavers. I believe everyone who have used shavers with replaceable cartridges has felt this way.
If you want to continue using a replaceable shaver (and not go for either Double Edge blades or electrical shavers), there is only one way to save money. Make your blades last longer!
To make your blades last for more than just a few shaves, you must either accept some extra drag on your face, as the older blades gets dirty and blunt – or use one of the few “blade savers” on the market. But which of these should you go for? I have just tested the RazorPit – and as I mentioned in an earlier post, it claims to prolong the lifetime of your cartridges.
How I tested the RazorPit
For this review, I took two brand new Gillette Fusion cartridges, and marked one with a “+” and one with a “-”. I used each of them every second day. After each shave, the “+”-cartridge was cleaned using the RazorPit. The “-”-cartridge was cleaned using nothing but hot water. Both cartridges were put to dry in RazorPits built-in stand.
First impressions
The silicon coated plastic which the RazorPit is made of doesn’t look fancy at all. It certainly won’t win any design awards on its looks – but on the other hand it feels quite robust and provides a nice “docking station” for your Gillette razor. It works great with the original Fusion razor, but the latest Fusion ProGlide Power is too big to fit. (I guess the normal ProGlide without the battery will fit, though). You can still clean your ProGlide power using the RazorPit – it just won’t fit in the stand afterwards. So it’s a minor detail I guess.
The RazorPit is extremely simple to use – just put some foam on the surface, and push the razor across it a few times after each shave. You can see a video of how it works in my previous post, “RazorPit – the Simple Revolution?“. It takes just a minute or two to use.
Does it work?
The ads claim you will get up to 150 shaves per blade. That may be true under some conditions. But I never got to that amount. Even so, the RazorPit did in fact make my blades last longer!
The “+”-blade (Cleaned using the RazorPit) lasted for 24 days. Compare that to the 6 days of the blade cleaned using hot water only… That’s 18 days extra – or a stunning 300% improvement!
The price of the RazorPit is about the same as 8 new Fusion cartridges. If the RazorPit works just as well for you as it did for me, it will practically be saving you money from day one.
Using replaceable cartridges like Gillettes Fusion or Schicks Hydro blades is more expensive than using a traditional double edge razor. But it is also easier and faster. With the RazorPit, you can use each blade for a little longer – and save money even by using the replaceable cartridges!
On a 5-star scale, I would give the RazorPit 4 stars. It works great, but to get the fifth star, the RazorPit would need to come up with a nice travel pouch or something – and a stand that will take the new Fusion ProGlide Power as well.. But for now, I guess the RazorPit is the best you can buy to improve the lifetime of your razor blades.
Tan on 20 July 2010
My boyfriend and I got the Martell Shaving Pad from Innovatell. This product has an specially designed surface that keeps your Razor Sharp for months by realigning bended edges of razor blades. We are using the same blade for the past 8 months now. That’s saving lots of $$ and having the same comfort like a new razor blade every time we shave. I’m wondering if the razor pit uses the same technology?
Shaving Detective on 20 July 2010
Tan, Thank you for your comment – and welcome to this site!
I had never heard of the Martell Shaving Pad before reading your comment, but you are absolutely right. It looks as if both the RazorPit and the Martell Shaving Pad use a silicon based surface to clean the blades. The way of using the tool also seems practically identical. At least from what I can see from the Shaving Pad website.
/Hans
Tan on 21 July 2010
Hi Hans,
For what I know about the Martell Shaving Pad, it has an specially designed surface (Grooving surface lines) that realigns the edge of the razor blades like the butchers do when resharpen their knifes; so when I think about it it makes a lot of sense
but the “Razorpit” has a flat surface, how the razor pit manages to resharpen the edge of razor blades just by cleaning hair and soap? I dont understand their explanation. I have some background in Materials, so thats why Martell Shaving Pad made more sense for me.. hihi 
Jesper Hvejsel on 22 July 2010
Hi Tan and Hans,
They use the same technology. But the technology is under our patent. I will not get more into this here, as this is a legal matter which we will deal with.
Martell Shaving Pad says that they are realigning the edge of the blade, but what they are actually doing is cleaning the blade. The same as RazorPit.
Shaving Detective on 24 July 2010
Thanks Jesper!
Great to see you commenting here! I guess we’ll stop the discussion of Martell vs RazorPit here and await any further development in the case.
And to Tan – thanks for bringing my attention to the Shaving Pad – I will update you all on this later.
Tan on 24 July 2010
Oh I see, I dont know anything about patents lol but Im a very curious person hi hi But I still dont understand how a flat surface (RazorPit) and I’m looking at the Martell Shaving Pad right now, and it has a surface with grooving lines all realing at a certain distance on the pad. So what they say, and it was tested by the News Papers (I checked and its true, it was writtent in all the News Papers in Canada and US)
http://news.inventhelp.com/Articles/Health-Beauty/Inventions/razor-sharpener-12494.aspx
They say that the edge bends due to shaving stress we applied during shaving, and it was even tested by a Know University in Canada(McGill), and since I have degree in Materials, Its true, Materials behave differently at certain level. THIS is why I ask again(Razorpit) HOW a flat surface can resharpen the edge of razor blades? I think we have here a very nice topic to talk
Thank you Han for your time, and Jesper too.
Neil McCalister on 25 July 2010
Dudes! I’m using the Martell Shaving Pad and now it’s been like 10 Months that i’ve been using the same Razor.I got it for free when this company passed by our University (Concordia) and gave away like a huge Truck of Martell Shaving Pads.Nways I was like: dude this is good!, and after all this time, I’m still using the same Razor. I dnt know about the razorPit but I wonder where is the Technology razorPit claims? its just a piece of rubber..Plus I went to the razorpit.ca site to check their technology explanation, and dude they’re using Martell Shaving Pad key words to drive traffic to their site! dude that’s weird! Why would they use Martell shaving pad keywords if it’s under their patent??
Jesper Hvejsel on 9 August 2010
The flat surface has a unique softness that comes into contact with the surface of the razor blade. When in contact with the razor blade, the high level of friction of the material from the razor pit cleans the razor blades.
In regards to our patent, it is a patent that covers the special softness of a material used to sharpen a razor blade.
If you take a look at the patent application of the martell shaving pad, you will probably note our patent being mentioned in regards to most of the claims in Martell’s.
Stjepan on 15 August 2010
I came across this page after a search for “martell shaving pad”. The comments promoting the martell pad on this site look like they were posted by the martell pad marketing team.
Given that I hate companies with deceptive practices, there is no way that I am buying the martell pad. Thanks to this website for promoting an alternative product (whose creator has the decency of posting as himself).