Thread: Oil after every shave?

I should add that fully drying and wiping a blade down
can permit a patina to develop. A combination of shave soap,
water and air can build up a thin protective layer that protects
the steel from more aggressive corrosion.

Keeping a mirror bright blade mirror bright -- it helps
to wax or oil the large shining areas. Same for gold flashing.

Many polishing compounds do contain hard wax as a basic binder
so many blades are "waxed". Armor folk use Renaissance Wax
and other like tricks to keep steel armor from rusting. MASS
is a suspension/ compound which is mostly oil/wax based so
after a polishing there is a lot of residual protection.

Gun shops have fine rust prevention products. I use them
when I pull a razor from my rotation and put it in storage.
Given the silly number of razors I have, storage can be long
enough to justify a good spray of a quality product.

I should not forget that japanese swords are often polished and protected
with choji or camelia oil. Visit a sword forum to get the details.

Bottom line -- steel rusts if not protected one way or another.
There a lot of ways that work...

The short answer is no. You don't have to. But it's up to you, using previous posters info. to decide if it's necessary.

Thanks everyone. I live New Jersey so its humid summers and mostly dry winters (except for this year). I went ahead and ordered some razor oil from SRD and am leaning toward using it at this point to be on the cautious side since I don't want the first razor I own to get rusty.