Abstract: A safety razor blade unit including a guard, a cap, and a group of first, second, and third blades with parallel sharpened edges located between the guard and cap, the blades being resiliently movably mounted and having an at rest condition in which the first blade defines a blade edge nearest the guard having a negative exposure between about −0.04 mm and about −0.06 mm, the third blade defines a blade edge nearest the cap having a positive exposure between about +0.04 mm and about +0.06 mm, and the second blade defines a blade edge having an exposure of about zero.