Personna Med Prep rebrand.

I axed the Accuthrive folks about the difference between the Accuthrive Med Prep blades and the AKA Lab Blues…specifically if they were the same blade.
Apparently, the answer is a matter of national security and my security clearance doesn’t qualify.
So unless someone has an electron microscope…


“AccuTec manufactures both blades.

The AccuThrive Med prep blades are made specifically for medical use (in this case surgical prep). The edge is coated with our proprietary MicroCoat enrichment technology that provides a microscopic multilayered cutting edge so that may be why you are experiencing a great shave!

The Personna Lab Blues are also manufactured by AccuTec (owner of AccuThrive), but they are specifically designed for beauty/barber.”

I axed the Accuthrive folks about the difference between the Accuthrive Med Prep blades and the AKA Lab Blues…specifically if they were the same blade.
Apparently, the answer is a matter of national security and my security clearance doesn’t qualify.
So unless someone has an electron microscope…


“AccuTec manufactures both blades.

The AccuThrive Med prep blades are made specifically for medical use (in this case surgical prep). The edge is coated with our proprietary MicroCoat enrichment technology that provides a microscopic multilayered cutting edge so that may be why you are experiencing a great shave!

The Personna Lab Blues are also manufactured by AccuTec (owner of AccuThrive), but they are specifically designed for beauty/barber.”

PURELY SPECULATION:

As Labs were primarily intended for usage in forensic, histology and pathology settings, suspect the comfort of edge is far less a priority than efficiency whereas Meds were primarily developed for use in clinical settings where the patients' comfort is as important as efficiency. 

Can state flatly, were those my target consumers, that would have been my design brief

Thanks to some kindness from someone here who shared some Accuthrives with me, I was able to use them the last three days now. I'm incredibly impressed. Smooth and sharp. Like really smooth. And like really sharp. Will keep using them for a week or two but, as is and having used them three days now, they are just fabulous.

https://youtu.be/qGy0i6XZJZw?si=7l-_5-6Q8w_MZffP

Any of the regular vendors that sell the new packaging Accuthrive brand blades?

My dermatologist uses Med Preps to take skin samples and remove cancers. I would assume they're sterile and no coating at all.

personally I wonder if it is a quality control thing vs the med prep and regular but that is just speculation. I have russian made gillette blades where the majority of the blades in a tuck look horrible under a microscope new. I am not sure if its a coating thing or a grinding thing but you can feel it in the shave sometimes - especially in the third pass.