{"id":1366,"date":"2009-02-22T01:54:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T09:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2010-06-28T00:06:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T08:06:45","slug":"the-eco-dupes-shaving-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"The Eco-Dupe's Shaving Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenopia.com\/BL\/news\/15113\/1-1-2009\/The-Eco-Gentleman%27s-Shaving-Kit--Back-to-Basics\"><q>The Eco Gentleman's Shaving Kit: Back to Basics<\/q> by Rob Knox at Greenopia<\/a>, there is a reference to a shave brush <q>made of cruelty-free badger hair<\/q>, linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drugstore.com\/qxp161583_333181_sespider\/baxter_of_california\/shaving_1_2_3_kit.htm\">a listing at drugstore.com for a shaving kit from Baxter of California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drugstore.com\/qxp161583_333181_sespider\/baxter_of_california\/shaving_1_2_3_kit.htm\">which listing describes the kit as <q>Environmentally Friendly and Cruelty Free<\/q><\/a>.<\/p> <p><em>However<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22cruelty+free%22+site%3Abaxterofcalifornia.com\">a Google search for <q>cruelty free<\/q> at baxterofcalifornia.com<\/a> produces <em>no<\/em> hits, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baxterofcalifornia.com\/store\/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=66\">Baxter's own description of their travel brush<\/a> (in that kit), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baxterofcalifornia.com\/store\/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=67\">that of their other shave brush<\/a> simply don't report how the badger bristles are harvested.  It is hardly plausible that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baxterofcalifornia.com\/\">Baxter of California<\/a> would fail to mention that the badger were spared death or injury, as this would repel few-if-any customers, while attracting many of those who would otherwise purchase high-end synthetic brushes.<\/p> <p>(Mr Knox also declares <q>old <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">&#91;straight&#93;<\/span> razors from junk and antique shops are perfectly suitable once cleaned and sharpened<\/q>, but this is only true in cases where the straight razors were of high quality before they got dirty and dull.  There are plenty of <em>new<\/em> straight razors, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeepk.com\/razors.html\">those from Zeepk<\/a>, which aren't suitable, because they are badly manufactured.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In The Eco Gentleman's Shaving Kit: Back to Basics by Rob Knox at Greenopia, there is a reference to a shave brush made of cruelty-free badger hair, linked to a listing at drugstore.com for a shaving kit from Baxter of California, which listing describes the kit as Environmentally Friendly and Cruelty Free. However, a Google [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,318,5,4],"tags":[309,311,312,313,314,532,316,317],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-ethics-philosophy","category-personal","category-public","tag-badgers","tag-bristles","tag-brushes","tag-fur","tag-hair","tag-razors","tag-shaving","tag-shaving-brushes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}