When I was first learning to shave, razors had one blade - just one. There were straight razors, safety razors which might or might not use double-edged blades, but only one blade was applied to your face at a time.
Today, you can still buy straight razors - I won't, my hands shake too much - but it is almost impossible to buy a razor with a single blade. The old Bics with two blades are getting hard to find.
Somebody decided that if one blade could give a close shave, that a second blade coming right after the first would do the job much better. Now it has become a marketing ploy, a contest to see which manufacturer can stack the most blades in a row.
A platoon of blades might look like a wonderful idea, but it ain't. Once you get past one or two blades, you can't make more than one swipe down your cheek without having to spend the next couple of minutes cleaning gunk out of the razor. It can make shaving a real pain.
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