Thread: Sterilizing razors

Originally Posted by Utopian

If you have a reference that declares the duration of efficacy of the solution after it is diluted, I would appreciate knowing about it. Everything I have read about it in the past has indicated it must be replaced daily in order to be effective. Many disinfectants, such as bleach, quickly lose their effectiveness after dilution.

There's a delightful irony in watching a guy with Henry David Thoreau as his icon discuss sterilizing razors. Thoreau's brother died of tetanus he received from a straight razor cut (wow, how nasty would that razor have to be) Thoreau was very close to his brother and the death absolutely crushed him. He decided to try to clear his head by spending some time in his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson's cabin on Walden Pond. The rest as they say is American Literary History.

You are making this way too hard. Wipe down the blade with 70% or better alcohol per Arizona regulations...