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12-16-2014, 11:59 PM #1Senior Member
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Oil for the blade
What is the best oil to use for preventing the razor blade to rust.
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12-17-2014, 12:12 AM #2
Food grade inox is all I have ever used based on the recommendation of os who used to hone my razors, i just sprayed a load onto a piece of cloth over a year ago and I just keep the cloth in a ziploc bag. To be honest I don't use it much, and if a razor is used daily I would question the value in doing it. That being said it's not a great deal of effort to do.
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12-17-2014, 02:34 AM #3Senior Member
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I've used mineral oil, when I store mine.
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12-17-2014, 03:43 AM #4Senior Member
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+1 on the mineral oil, that's all I use, works just fine.
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12-17-2014, 07:26 AM #5The Electrochemist
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PapaBear11,
As I live in an old, cold, leaky Victorian house, a few hundred yards from the English Channel, I use Sentry Solutions TuffGlide for my every-day razors : this works superbly
As the other posters have said, mineral oil will be fine for every-day razors - either plain mineral oil (BP grade) or Baby Oil (I used Johnsons).
Ballistol is also good (being principally mineral oil).
For intermediate term preservation, I use TuffGlide or EEZOX.
For long term storage, I use RIG grease on top of TuffGlide or EEZOX.
Have fun
Best regards
Russ
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12-17-2014, 07:35 AM #6Senior Member
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Agree on Ballistol for everyday purposes. Look out for a Japanese applicator bottle - they have a wick which applies the oil and keeps your fingers well away from the sharp bits.
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12-17-2014, 08:24 AM #7Senior Member
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IKEA Skydd is pretty good. It's a high purity, food grade (meaning low toxicity) mineral oil. A bottle will last a lifetime. I suspect it may be very similar to the mineral oil BP referred to above (that's British Pharmacopoeia rather then British Petroleum - petroleum oil is definitely not food grade).
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Ballistol for me too, I've got the refillable pen applicator which works very well.
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12-17-2014, 10:49 AM #9Senior Member
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Ballistol here as well. well protected and it doesn't get gummy over time.
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12-18-2014, 12:34 AM #10
Either Ballistol or Frog Lube. I like Frog Lube though it does smell like Vick's Vapo Rub to me.
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