About Five Cent Shave

Hello. Five Cent Shave is a small independent site published by Five Cent Shave LLC. Here is who we are, how we work, and how we pay the bills.

Five Cent Shave takes its name from the oldest tune in the barbershop: shave and a haircut, five cents. The price has moved on; the idea has not. You should know exactly what you are paying for before you sit in the chair.

We read manufacturer spec sheets, warranty terms, manuals and verified owner reviews for grooming devices, and we publish the date each figure was checked. When a maker does not publish a number, the page says so.

We do not run a lab or claim weeks of personal use, and every page says so. Some links earn a commission; the grade is written before any link exists.

Who writes here

Content is written and edited by the Five Cent Shave editors. Where a page has a named author, that person is a real individual who is responsible for the piece. We do not publish under invented personas.

How we work

• Primary sources first. Vendor documentation, published pricing and changelogs, verified user reports. Marketing copy is not evidence.
• Published method. Our scoring and selection rules are on the editorial policy page, and they are applied before any commercial consideration.
• Dated claims. Prices and features change; our pages carry the date they were last checked.
• Corrections. If we got something wrong, email hello@fivecentshave.com. Material corrections are noted on the page.

How we make money

Some links on Five Cent Shave are affiliate links: if you click one and buy, the vendor may pay us a commission at no extra cost to you. Our full affiliate disclosure explains which networks we work with. Commission never decides what we cover, how we rank it, or what we say about it. We do not accept payment for reviews, placements or rankings.

Company

Five Cent Shave LLC
Mailing address will be published here when company registration is complete.
Email: hello@fivecentshave.com

Image credits

Photographs on this site that are not our own are used under open licences from Wikimedia Commons and are illustrative, not pictures of our team or offices.

• Interior of a barber shop in Mandaue City (04-23-2023).jpg by PaulGorduiz106, CC BY-SA 4.0
• World's Largest Barber Pole at Tina's Barber Shop (53058455127).jpg by Joseph Gage from Yorkville, IL, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
• Spicatemblach.jpg by Shortcuts Software, CC BY 2.0