Thread: Ok, mega confused here

Stropping can clean the bevels from skin flakes and soap left on them, but that is not the main use for stropping.

Stropping is used to realign the serrations on the edge of the razor for comfortable shave. Stropping is also very important after refreshing the edge on hones, it helps burnishing the edge and again alignment of the serrations for more comfortable shave.

We like to use the term dressing the edge to describe what a strop does. Kind of a catchall for drying, cleaning, polishing, and a bunch of other things already mentioned.