It was over 20 years ago when The Onion delivered this classic headline mocking the increasingly high number of blades on the average razor. And then five blades became the norm in the shaving world, ...

The best single-blade razors are a bit of a conundrum: When many of us learned to shave, there was comfort in knowing that if one blade missed a hair, the next three (or six) would mow it down for the ...