Thread: Newbie Help Cleaning Razor

Welcome, first of all. With your questions, there are a few concerns you'll need to address:
1) You have dried soap on the edge. This means that you are not sufficiently rinsing your razor while you are shaving. This also probably means that your lather is too dry. You can do a number of things to keep your lather wet, but the best option is to make ti wet in the first place.
2) How are you rinsing the razor? If you are simply swirling it around in the water, or if you are running it under the faucet, be careful that no water gets into the swivel. Water is notoriously hard to dry from there. Some of the old-school masters around here use a wet sponge, and wipe the edge of the razor against it to clean as they shave.
3) A strop will go a long way toward preserving your edge, as well as buffing off any and all bits of dried whatever left by your shave. It will also buff off any oxidized material, keeping fresh steel in contact with your face.
4) As josh said, you're gonna want to use some sort of oil to keep your blade from rusting. Personally, I use baby oil. I would caution you to steer clear of petroleum products like gun oil or machine oil. Reason being that these are not meant to be processed by the human body. They can be poisonous, in fact. If you disagree, read the warning labels on the containers. Using some form of mild oil, such as mineral oil (baby oil is scented mineral oil), vegetable oil, olive oil, etc. can preserve your steel from rust.
5) Above all, have fun!

I just use 1 square of the good old TP. it's super soft. if you fold it in half, then half again you can safely -GENTLY!- run it over the blade LIGHTLY. if the blade is wet beforehand, there's no stain after the eh hem... wipe.

I'll usually put a drip or two of oil on the blade before it goes in the box. It's a brand new razor.

I think I'm going to keep a new sponge close by specifically for the purpose of the previous post. Thanks SonOf1337!