Thread: Barbicide for disinfecting

i did the same thing wiht water, and my zebra black and metal blade was pretty easily restored to beauty with some MAAS. That's after I had a heart attack of course.

ok all of you are discussing sterilization. have any of you ever thought about useing surgical soap? its easy to get and rather cheap. and works very well.

Originally Posted by AaronX

I think the barbicide directions say like 10-15 minutes... why'd you do it overnight?

Meant to get them all out before I went to bed. Totally forgot them. As lazy as I am (that is if any of us that actually take a straight to our faces can be called lazy) , the "brown" look is kinda growing on me.

This making things sterile comes up repeatedly so must be one of the great concerns. For those for whom this is a great problem the only solution is either removing the blade from the scales or installing the blade in stainless steel scales and autoclaving the razor whenever the user thinks it needs to be sterilized or re-sterilized.

Actually the non-stainless steel and un-sterilzed scales, if removed from the blade and then reinstalled on that blade, could be a source of re-contamination. Thus that option is only the penultimate for the optimum of cleanliness. The ultimate bein only something where all parts can be washed and rinsed thoroughly and then all those pieces autoclaved. Reassembly could prove problematic if the parts have to be touched to do that, but sterile gloves could solve that issue - if the reassembly were done in a clean enviroment.

Disposable blades are really the only option for the most reliable system of assuring cleanliness and only if these are made by machine, with no human contact, then cleaned, packaged, sterilized, and opened only by the user and used by the consumer himself - only once.

So what do these clean freaks do when they sneeze? Or, heaven forbid, someone else nearby sneezes? Using the toilet must be incredibly painful.

Originally Posted by JerseyLawyer

(Was there mention of an autoclave in some other post on the topic of sterilizing razors?!)

It might have been the thread I started yesterday about the Feather razor and blades in Europe. The context was using a real straight razor in a barber shop, where there are health regulations that require it, instead of a disposable razor like a Dovo Shavette or a Feather Artist Club. I started a hairdresser's course Monday because I want to work part-time giving shaves in a barber shop. The original point was that, in my opinion, you get a better shave with a real straight and that the disappointment with a barber's shave that we often hear about has to do with the disposable razors. I'm going to check out whether or not barbicide can replace the autoclave.