[3] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This is Emmett's first work since leaving newsreel and it shows the jerky haphazardness of his earlier experience.

He should improve with further feature worl and with the realisation that independent scripting and editing bring not only specialised skill into these departments, but individual judgments to the work as a whole.

"[4] Kine Weekly called the film a "cheery extravaganza: a skittish testimony to Gillette, inventor of the safety razor," adding: "The advertising matter is humorously concealed in a series of light illustrations of the weapons with which men have battled with beards.

"[5] The Daily Film Renter wrote: "This novel, informative and amusing record of man's struggle with his beard through the ages should be well received in every class of kinema, and the uncommonly well-written and effectively delivered commentary be particularly appreciated.

"[6] Picture Show wrote: "Tracing, with some humour, the development of the means by which man indulged his wish to shave from the Dark Ages down to the invention of the safety razor, this unpretentious little film gives us a detailed survey of the manufacture of razor blades, and finishes with a ponderous and pointless bath episode that detracts considerably from its previous merits.