Quik Shave Reviews & Press Coverage
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Quik Shave Reviews & Press Coverage
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Evaluation of the QUIK SHAVE™ Shaving System By Diane Kaye Well girls, I just finished evaluating the latest in shaving equipment. It is a razor holder made by Quik Shave. Now let me describe it to you. We have all seen those cartoons of a painter holding a handle with two brushes on the end, or someone with two mop heads on the end of a mop handle. Well when I first saw the Quik Shave, that is exactly what I thought. What I had in my hand was a double headed razor. My first reaction was, "this has got to be a joke". Being fair about any new invention, however, I decided to give it a honest evaluation before passing judgment on it. The manufacturer has a web site which I would recommend you check out before making your decision at: http://www.quikshave.com I decided to try it on my legs first. What I got was just as advertised,
a quick shave. Since there are two razor blades, you cover twice
the territory per pass. Each head has its own swivel so they independently
follow the contours of your body. This makes it nice for round legs since
one head tilts to the left and one to the right, thus contouring nicely
to the shape of your leg. The holder is "Y" shaped. My big
concern was that I would sacrifice some flesh to this contraption.
To my surprise, it shaved smoothly and quickly. Now around the ankles,
I went very carefully. There is not much surface
For you larger gals, I suspect that you could shave all of the leg with this shaving system. Now the next thing was to get the man of the house to try it on his face. The advertisements show men shaving with it on their face and head (if you like that que ball look). To be honest, using a dual blade on your face and shaving against the grain for that really close shave, requires more control and concentration. Contending with two blades around the chin and neck area seems a bit tenuous. For the cheeks, you really don't save that much time unless you have a big face. The result was that while it did a good job, one had to be careful, but it still saved time. On the neck, with one blade on each side of the Adam's apple, one stroke did the job. Now for other body hair, such as the back, chest, arms, it pays for itself. Doing the back, as far as the arm could reach was easier than with a regular razor. Same for arms. For the chest, not quite as good -- but then it depends on the shape of the body. These are areas that are large and can take advantage of a dual-bladed system. After complete evaluation, I concluded that it offers the advantage, as advertised: "Of giving a Quick Shave". Does the time saved make a difference? Only you can answer that. Personally, I found that I saved a lot of time. For the legs -- I think QS offers a distinct advantage. The longer handle coupled with the swiveling heads, makes it excellent for legs. Bottom line.....it is good for those other areas: underarms, back of the neck, men's heads -- and worth adding to your kit of "tools of the trade". Good luck with your Quik Shave Razor. |
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by Maritha Gan Recently, I received a two-headed shaver in the mail and it is reputed to shave off 19 hours of annual time from the leg shaving process! Giving it a try proved to be a quick, painless experience. The shaver itself is a funny looking thing, minimal design, however it is unique as shavers go. Invented by Herbie McNinch, it is recommended by me! It will also help with the mildly physically challenged. Shaving requires half the bend over time. It has a nice hole in the end to hang it up to dry on your shower caddy. It retails for $2.99 each + s&h. That's not a bad price, considering all the time Quik Shave saves you. Order 2 to 4 or more and receive a discount on shipping. Call their toll-free number at 1-888-75 SHAVE (1-888-757-4283) during normal office hours and have your credit card ready. In most cases, they ship by the next business day. Parenting Magazine and RealTV just requested press kits and samples-- they're going to include Quik Shave in an upcoming issue/show about shaving. Since you receive less nicks and cuts, a Sterile Quik Shave Razor would be great for Pre-Op too!!! Herbie builds QS® Razors to last and last. The e-mail is -- qkshave@bigfoot.com and their url(s) are: quikshave.com, quickshave.com, & qwikshave.com Treat yourself to a new bathroom experience today! |
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PRODUCT REVIEW I was recently contacted regarding this new product. Quik Shave™! What in the world was Quik Shave? Having no idea, I decided to contact Herbie (he was the one who sent me the e-mail). At first I thought it was some sort of a "better" hair remover. Upon discussing the merits of Quik Shave with Herbie, I soon learned that it was simply a rapid form of hair removal. Herbie asked that I try it and see what I thought, so I did. Now I suppose you want to know what I thought about it. Well let me explain it to you first. Quik Shave is a new design that encompasses two (2) blades on one handle. THAT'S RIGHT - 2 blades!! Sort of unique. The whole purpose of the design is to get more hair per swipe. Being two blades wide, it accomplishes just that. You do, however, need to overlap because of the gap between the two blades. But instead of needing, say, 25 strokes to get your legs shaved, you now only need about 10 or 12. Same for the chest. Small areas such as face and arms etc., one must use only one blade. But hey, lets face it, the legs and chest are the largest areas. I have been able to cut my shaving time in half!! Now about nicks and cuts - NONE SO FAR! I don't know if that means the Quik Shave Body Razor is better or if the blades are better. Don't ask for a testimonial on the blades. My shaving technique is rather different any way. But I feel that I can safely recommend anyone using the Quik Shave system. There was also a review on TG Forum, so you can check it out also.
For those of you who want to get in touch with Herbie direct and order
a Quik Shave Razor, you can see it all here: www.quikshave.com, www.quickshave.com,
www.qwikshave.com,
Happy Shaving....from "News and Events". |
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City Beat
Are Two Heads Really Better Than One? In the spirit of "Bigger is better" and "The more the merrier," a local inventor has developed a new type of razor that promises to cut shaving time in half. The Quik Shave Speed Shaver is a device that has not one, but two pivoting razor heads. It's the brainchild of Herbie McNinch, a Houston businessman who woke up one morning and decided that it just took too darn long to shave everyday. "It's like hooking two lawn mowers together to mow your grass," says McNinch, who got the idea when he saw two razors sitting side-by-side. "You're covering twice as much space." And does twice the razor mean twice the cuts? "No," says McNinch, who claims that women don't cut their knees, shins, or ankles as often with his patented shaver. Men, he admits, are a little fuzzy on the concept. The marketing materials for the Quik Shave include "Shaving Fact Sheets," "The Shaving Historical Timeline for Men and Women" and the ever-helpful "How to Shave the Right Way." "I built this to help my fellow man save time. I feel like this
is my contribution in life, says McNinch.
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Personal Style The Orlando Sentinel, Thursday, April 27, 2000 2-Headed Razor Gets The Job Done Jean Patteson, The Fashion Adviser Question: I get so tired of shaving my legs, especially in the summer, when I do it three or four times a week. What a waste of time. Can't someone come up with a faster way? Perhaps if razors were twice as wide, we'd get the job done in half the time. ANSWER: Twice-as-wide might work if legs were flat, but obviously they're not. They're rounded. There is a razor that covers twice as much ground -- er, skin -- as standard razors and negotiates curves as well. Called the Quik Shave Body Razor, it has two pivoting heads, or blades. The double-headed gadget was invented by Houston businessman Herbie C. McNinch, who obvisously believes that two heads are better then one. Quik Shave is available in some stores, or through distributors. It also can be ordered by calling 888-75 SHAVE or from the Web site www.quikshave.com, for $2.99, plus shipping and handling. |
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Lifestyle & Entertainment
SHAVING THE ODDS
Believing That Two Heads Are Better Than One,
They traded their comfortable home and possessions collected over a lifetime for a spartan townhouse in the suburbs. Traded a money-making construction company for an uncertain new venture. Traded security for possibilities. At a time when they could be playing it safe in their tiny hometown of George West, Texas, Herbie and Doris McNinch are instead risking everything in the big city -- all for a few ounces plastic that promises to shave precious seconds off your personal grooming routine. Shave your legs in two minutes flat! Shave your head in 40 seconds! Shave your entire body in half the time it normally takes! Count Herbie McNinch among America's dreamers-turned-inventors, those action -oriented people who never grouse about a problem and then simply forget it. McNinch, 52, joined the group while standing at the bathroom sink in 1993. He was shaving -- a tedious process made worse by the fact that his disposable razor had grown dull. He pulled out another, glancing down idly as he held them side-by-side. Inspiration struck. "I thought, 'You know, shaving takes so long. If I could hook these together, it'd be twice as fast.'" He headed straight for his home computer to begin tinkering with a design. By January 1994, McNinch and his wife were at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Arlington, Va. Eighteen months later, his Quik Shave Razor -- two heads swiveling from a single handle -- had received U.S. Patent No. 5,426,853. The McNinchs' new life was about to begin. It's impossible to say how many people try to build a better mouse trap, but the patent office received applications for 260,889 new gizmos, designs, and other contraptions in 1998. It granted 163,147 patents that year, generally after many months, even several years, of review. But that doesn't reflect the number of inventors working today, says Ellen Rennels, a patent consultant with the Affiliated Inventors Foundation in Colorado Springs, Colorado. "We like to think of everybody as a potential inventor," she says. Sure. But what sets the true inventor apart from the rest of us? "Basically, independent inventors are looking for a better way to solve an everyday problem," Rennels says. "They may not have a huge background of technical expertise, but they see a problem, they get frustrated, and they think, 'There must be a better......'" McNinch started La Cerca Construction, Inc. not long after he married Doris in 1967 and moved to George West, a smudge on the map between San Antonio and Corpus Christi, Texas. The Quik Shave Razor counts as his first true invention, but as the owner of a construction company that handled everything from the oilfield, to electrical work and water wells, he was accustomed to using his "engineering mindset". "If you had pipe down the hole, you had to come up with some kind of tool to fish it out with," he explains. By the spring of 1996, both their daughters were grown and married. The McNinchs had their Quik Shave patent, and they were ready to gamble. They moved to Houston after selling their business and their home, including
all the equipment and some furnishings. McNinch had two sisters here in
Houston, and he felt the city could provide everything he would need to
launch his razor concept. "We just made a new start," Doris McNinch
says. "We thought we would miss everthing we
They bought new furnishing and they still talk about buying a new house. But that would mean changing the address and probably the telephone number on all their business correspondence, including the Web sites - setup to advertise and sell the Quik Shave (www.quikshave.com). Besides, they're busy launching a dream. And dreams, they have discovered, can take time to come true. "Patience is a virtue in something like this," McNinch says. The initial step in Houston was to find someone to turn McNinch's drawings into reality. The early prototypes were made of wood, the first tangible evidence that this ideal would work. Doris McNinch had her doubts early on -- "I thought it was wacko," she admits. But the prototype convinced her. "I started crying in the bathtub because it worked so well." Quik Shave Razors began rolling off the assembly line in early 1997. They were sold through the Web site, but the McNinchs knew they needed wider distribution if the razors were ever to truly catch on. They settled on Wal-Mart as the best launching pad, or test market, and began making telephone calls, meeting with people and showing how their product worked. Even now, they can scarcely walk past one of the razors without grabbing it for an impormptu demonstration. So safe! So fast! Such a comfortable shave! Why, you might ask, would you need to shave your head in 40 seconds? McNinch counters. "If I can save you 15 hours, or 18 hours of time every year, I don't care if you just watch the birds." The U.S. Patent & Trade Office doesn't track what percentage of patented inventions actually become a commercial success, says spokeswoman Maria Hernandez. Clearly, many don't. But dwelling on that is not a luxury available to people like the McNinchs, who depend upon a genuine belief in their product and an almost childlike optimism to push through the lean years. They have invested about $200,000 of their saving in Quik Shave, McNinch says. He won't release sales figures but says the company has begun to earn a profit. The next goal, national distribution, will require more funding, and they soon will look for a business loan or venture capital. If he ever has doubts, they are pushed well below the surface. "We can both taste it, that it's going to happen really soon," Doris McNinch says. Her husband quietly offers a correction. "It's already starting to happen." |
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THE PITCH Money Will Go Out, He Says, but First It Must Come In By TIM RACE Who says the age of irony is over The news release arrived by e-mail last Tuesday with the headline
"2-Headed Razor Company Plans New Disposable Plastic Model" The release was written and disseminated by H. C. McNinch, a 54-year-old inventor in Houston who goes by Herbie. His private company, Quik Shave Inc., produces a slingshot-shaped razor. It is a product for people who find a single cartridge too slow a way to shave. "Some men who first look at Quik Shave might say something like, `That looks like some kind of weapon,'" the release says, but assures the reader that men and women alike appreciate "the time savings and safety features that the Quik Shave Razor has to offer." The razor is sold on the QuikShave.com Web site for $2.99, equipped with the two razor blades. He says that on a Houston television talk show, his wife, Doris, recently used a Quik Shave to groom one of her legs in 16 seconds. Quik Shave aims to have the plastic version ready for global distribution by the middle of next year. "We also plan," the release said, "on donating a portion of profits to needy organizations (in this time of crisis) as soon as we can move into mass production of the new plastic razor model." |
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Competitive razor manufacturers rush to shave face By DAVE BARRY ATTENTION, consumers with bodily hair: The razor industry has news for you! You will never in a million years guess what this news is, unless your IQ is higher than zero, in which case you're already thinking: "Not another blade! Don't tell me they're adding another blade!!" Shut up! Don't spoil the surprise for everybody else! Before I tell you the news, let's put it in historical context by reviewing the history of shaving. Human beings are one of only two species of animals that shave themselves (the other one is salamanders). The Internet tells us that humans have been shaving since the Stone Age. Of course, the Internet also tells us that hot naked women want to befriend us, so we can't be 100 percent sure about everything we read there. But assuming that www.quikshave.com/timeline.htm
is telling the truth, Neanderthal man used to pluck his facial hairs "using
two seashells as tweezers." No doubt
By 30,000 B.C., primitive man was shaving with blades made from flint,
which is a rock, so you had a lot of guys whose faces were basically big
oozing scabs. The next
This was pretty much the situation until the late 19th century, at about 2:30 p.m., when the safety razor was invented. This introduced a wonderful era known to historians as "The Golden Age of Not Having Razor Companies Introduce Some Ludicrously Unnecessary New Shaving Technology Every Ten Damn Minutes." I, personally, grew up during this era. I got my first razor when I
was 15, and I used it to shave my "beard," which consisted of a lone chin
hair approximately one electron in
The razors of that era had one blade, and they worked fine; ask any
older person who is not actively drooling. But then, in 1971, a very
bad thing happened: Gillette, looking
Soon everybody was selling two-blade razors. So the marketing people
put on their thinking caps, and, in an astounding burst of creativity,
came up with the breakthrough concept of: three blades. Gillette, which
is on the cutting edge (har!) of razor sneakerization, currently has a
top-of-the-line three-blade razor -- excuse me, I
Which brings us to today's exciting news, which was brought to my attention by alert reader Jake Hamer. Gillette's arch-rival, Schick (maker of the Xtreme 3 shaving system) has announced that it's coming out with a new razor that has -- prepare to be floored by innovation -- four blades. Yes! It will be called the "Quattro," which is Italian for "more expensive." Of course it will not end there. I bet an urgent memo has already gone
out in Gillette's marketing department. "Hold some focus groups immediately!"
it says. "Find out what
Yes, the razor-technology race shows no signs of slowing. And
who knows what lies ahead? Razors with 10 blades? Twenty blades?
A thousand blades? Razors that go
I'm getting a set of seashells. Knight Ridder Tribune
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
Close shave, or whisker's worth of difference? by Eils Lotozo
For most of the last century, the story of shaving has mainly been about
The man was a shrewd traveling salesman named King Camp Gillette, who
The single blade ruled until 1971, when the Gillette Co. brought out
In the latest act of escalation, taking millions of dollars in development
And in a retaliatory strike, Gillette is rolling out a new version of
At stake in all this is market share in the global $7.8 billion "wet-shave"
With the Quattro, Schick is making a bold strike to capture the most
You know who you are. The "grooming-involved" man doesn't balk at shelling out $8.99 for a
He's the type who has nothing to learn from those exasperated lectures
(For the rest of you, a summary: Always shave after a shower, because
Schick's Quattro, predictably billed as "the most technologically advanced
They have "knurled elastomeric" handles and lubricating strips with
But four blades? Is this a gimmick? Aren't three enough? Unfortunately, they are not, said Dave VerNooy, Schick vice president
To solve that, VerNooy said, the Quattro added a shaving edge that is
Gillette, which spent a reported $750 million to develop the Mach3 and
Clearly hoping to hold up the launch, Gillette filed a patent-infringement
"It takes more than four blades to make a great shave," said Michele
Of course, Gillette and Schick aren't the only
ones upping the blade
Not everyone thinks more is better. Ray Dupont is one shaver who scoffs
"There's a constant battle for market share going on between Schick
"It's not rocket science. You don't shave with a system, you shave with
The owner of ClassicShaving.com, an online retailer based in Palm Sprin
Dupont, who imports his shaving wares from France and Germany, said
But can the straight razor deliver what all men, apparently, yearn for
"You will never see a barber giving a shave with a safety razor," Dupont
Barber Michael Fiore, owner of Caravelli Barbershop, a Haddonfield institution
No question, he said, it's a closer shave, though he credits that to
So what does Fiore use on his own face at home? A safety razor. "I'm
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