Disposable shaver or old-fashion shaves One of the most difficult products to find outside the supermarket is the disposable razor. This can be understood, its growth is closely linked to that of plastic and hypermarket. BIC and Gillette were the first to market in 1975 a disposable handle-blade assembly while France had only 284 hypermarkets and discovered the plastic industry. Four decades later, the disposable razor has become the hallmark of the bathroom! ... And our garbage cans. BIC, market leader in volume, sold in 2016 nearly 2.6 billion disposable razors in the world. Adding in this sector the sales volumes of the main players in the BIC market, Gillette, Wilkinson and some private labels, we reach a figure of 8.2 billion units sold per year worldwide, that’s 22.5 million disposable razors every day on the planet. But what is a disposable razor? To put it simply, a plastic handle, a plastic head, 1 to 5 steel blades, and a protective cover. ...