Which Rapira?

I was going through my collection of blades and found I have three different types of Rapira blades.

Can anyone add some color?? What’s best? Smoothest?




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The Rapira blades are manufactured by Mostochlegmash in Moscow, Russia. Along with Rapira, they also produce Voskhod and Ladas blades. I have not tried either of the blades you have in inventory, but have tried Rapira Platinum Lux and Voskhod. Those two blades are medium sharp and smooth. I have seen review of the Rapira Swedish Supersteel blades that indicate they are neither as sharp, nor as smooth as the RPL and Voskhod blades, but I cannot confirm that from personal experience. I know know very little about the other two blades you mentioned, nor am I familiar with Ladas .

Performance of razor blades depends upon the coarseness of your beard, the sensitivity of your skin, which razor you are using, the quality of your lather and how good your shaving technique may be. Thus, razor blades are highly YMMV. Since you have them in you collection, try them and see how they work for you.

I went with the Super Stainless today. Wonderful!

Smooth and sharp. If I get three good BBS shaves I’ll be happy.


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The Stainless is also quite smooth!


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I'm a huge fan of the Rapira Platinum Lux.  I put it up there with the Voskhod.

The Rapira Swedish Supersteel is the blade that work better for me, so much so that it has become my reference standard, as alternative to the Astra.
The Rapira Platinum Lux was almost the opposite.
Regarding the other two type showed in the first post I wasn't able to tried them.

Nowadays I'm experimenting with alternatives, given the difficulties in finding them.
Who knows, maybe this research will bring some surprises.

Its the best of rapira and give fantastic shave.

I have these old stock 1997 production Rapira Super Stainless blades. I have sensitive skin, few and fine beards. So it really works great for me. My favorite is this Rapira.

It is a different blade from the well-known pink/black rapira. Plus it is a discontinued version and hard to find. This version has higher sharpness and comfort. It is stainless steel. Sold as 10 blades in 1 cardboard box. It provides smoothness beyond its meaning in terms of sharpness and comfort. It is very comfortable to shave. It gives a very close shaving performance like the famous Crystal blades. It gives a close and irritation-free shave. It is very prone to rust, and if care is taken to dry it after shaving, it produces a large number of quality shavings. In this respect, it is a complete price/performance monster.



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