As always at least when your starting off, if something goes wrong, there may be many different sources of the problem. So I'm trying to eliminate variables here.

Before useing a straight, I would fill the sink with water and shake my disposable in the water after a few passes to clean the razor, but for a while after switching to the straight, to avoid possibly hitting the razor on the side of the sink, I would just leave the faucet running to clean the straight after a few passes. Then I saw a video on the internet that shows uses a sponge to clean his straight, which I thought was pretty interesting.

Now I can't tell you why, but in the beginning shaving with the faucet running and the noise of it, sort of disoriented me and after trying to shave with it off theres just something about the sound of shaving, that cutting hair sound that sort of gives you that extra feedback that your executing the shave right. So I'm set on shaving in silence to get that extra sensory reception.

Anyways I could just turn the faucet on and off during the shave to clean my razor or use the more convenient way of a simple wipe over the sponge. Now after the first two shaves using the sponge to clean my razor, I've experienced what might be considered razor burn (face was a little red). So I might have been shaving too rough, using to many passes, not stroping good enouph,........but also there might be a dirty sponge imparting something that I'm immediately transferring to my face.

I clean the sponge every time before I use it and since the beginning I've used a sponge I specifically bought to use as my "razor cleaning sponge." So I was wondering among thoughs that might do this, has there ever been any thoughts, concerns, experineces... in this regard?