Thread: Str8ts: Health Hazard?

Originally Posted by toolarts

There is more junk floating around in the air, on your bathroom surfaces, in your clothing and your bedding than would be on a razor you just washed in hot water and put away.

Think about it.

Think about it. Sure. There's a significantly lower chance that someone else (or at least someone I don't know intimately) has bled on my bathroom surfaces, my clothing or my bedding. A used razor has a pretty high chance, and even old traces of blood is a cause for concern. So if you think about it, giving it more treatment than just washing it in hot water is a warranted precaution.

Sure, if you wash it (which, incidentally is not the same as sanitizing) you're probably safe. Some people would like to make that probably closer to definitely and there's nothing wrong with that.

Originally Posted by They Call Me Blockhead

Some people would like to make that probably closer to definitely and there's nothing wrong with that.

Except that it's obsessive and fails to recognise that there are more significant risks we face everyday without a second thought.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

This subject comes up every 4 months or so.....
And this time I would like to go on record, Anyone who has any razors that they don't feel safe shaving with please PM me and I will promptly dispose of them for you NO COST except shipping one way

Clearly, my esteemed colleague is dillusional. He is in no way, shape or form capable of proper disposal of prion-infected materials. I, on the other hand, am a member in good standing of the SDMI (Societe de Destruction de Materiel Infectee), and can properly dispose of prion- (or other) infected materials.

For a nominal fee per razor, I can send you an SDMI-sanctioned certificate that can absolve you of any liability related to infected razor materials.

Please PM me... I dubiously await the arrival of your razors.

And they call me a conman GGGGGEEEEEESSSSSHHHHH!!!!

Originally Posted by trewornan

Except that it's obsessive and fails to recognise that there are more significant risks we face everyday without a second thought.

I really don't find a soak in disinfectant to reach anywhere near the level of obsessive. I mean, sure we could get hit by a car crossing the street, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't look both ways.

If it's one of mine and I cut myself, I'll rinse it, but that's it.

When I buy a used one, it gets swished around in some chlorox for a few minutes, which will kill damn near anything.

Lets not forgett in all this talk of CJD and Prions that not only do you have to injest or be injected with the infection but you also have to have the proper genetic predisposition to ever suffer from it.


Besides read my statement again from way above. Every time you polish a razor you are removing the whole top layer of metal, usually both with an abrasive and a chemical. I'm not going to worry about anything past that. Also soap, while not killing many germs, does emulsify them and float them off of a surface thats how it cleans. Once they are down the drain they aren't my problem any more. If anything survives that and sticks well enough to get to my face after surviving a generation of disuse and can infect me with great enough vigor through all my defences and from a tiny cut it is either going to kill me or be the common cold.

Originally Posted by They Call Me Blockhead

I really don't find a soak in disinfectant to reach anywhere near the level of obsessive

No, and I've confused the issue by effectively responding to separate parts of the thread in one comment. The obsessive bit is worrying about prions and viruses after cleaning and disinfectant (I'm not even convinced prions exist).

Psssssst: guys, if some do get scared off thinking the risks, real or imagined are high enough for them to put their razors up for sale or not bid against us for the razors we want..there will be more razors for less money all for the rest of us! Muhahahahahahahahahhahahahah!

Chris L

Originally Posted by Wildtim

Lets not forgett in all this talk of CJD and Prions that not only do you have to injest or be injected with the infection but you also have to have the proper genetic predisposition to ever suffer from it.

Originally Posted by trewornan

No, and I've confused the issue by effectively responding to separate parts of the thread in one comment. The obsessive bit is worrying about prions and viruses after cleaning and disinfectant (I'm not even convinced prions exist).

I think the pryon fear is just misinformation or misunderstanding. Unless a razor has been used for slicing samples or emergency spinal surgery, the risks of there being pryons on a razor are negligible (equivalent to them being on a doorknob).

The genetic CJD is different from the transmissible CJD. I ate a lot of hamburgers in the UK in the 80s and 90s, so I've done a lot of reading on this.