The first plastic safety razor you ever used is likely still out there, hanging out in a landfill. In fact, nearly all plastic ever created still exists today. This includes heaps of grade school ...

In the disposable shaving razor industry, building a better razor has been a numbers game. First there was the single-blade, then the double blade, then the triple blade. One company even came out ...

The plastic handle on a disposable razor can’t easily be recycled, and billions of razors end up in landfills each year. But a new design from Kai, a Japanese razor manufacturer, swaps plastic for ...

A team of engineers at MIT led by C. Cem Tasan has discovered why steel razor blades go dull even when cutting hair that's 50 times softer than them. Using an electron microscopic, they found that ...