Thread: straight razor gets rust in bathroom

Aloha!

If you have ever seen condos and homes in Hawaii (not hotels or homes rented to vacationers but actual homes that Hawaiians live in), you know that most do not have air conditioning or heat. If you are hot, you open windows and let the trade winds blow through and turn on your ceiling fans. If you are cold, you close the windows. Humidity and salt air are everywhere. Keeping anything metal in that environment is a challenge.

I keep the blades coated with Camellia seed or mineral oil when left out. Currently on a Camellia seed kick. Both work. When put away in a more confined area, I use packets of dessicant to absorb moisture around the razors. Storing in the bathroom in Hawaii makes no difference VS any other room in the house. You typically aren't going to take a steaming hot shower when it's 88 degress and humid outside and 82 and humid in the house, so the bathroom is no more or no less humid than any other room. Every room in my home is probably as humid as your typical mainland bathroom.

The bright side is we don't use much skin moisturizer.

-Zip