Thread: Razor Scum?

Just a personal preference but I don't like the idea of using your strop to clean your blade of the soap scum. I personally think that the strop should be kept as clean as possible! Who knows what kind of bacteria etc might be in the soap scum after shaving and now it's on your strop??? Up to you I suppose but I wouldn't do it.

Stropping, to me, is about sharpening, not cleaning.

Originally Posted by brooksie967

After your shave give the blade a HOT bath then use some rubbing alcohol on a single folded sheet of toilet paper and give it a nice firm pinch and drag! Careful not to cut your thumb!

do not do this.

i did this awhile ago and it cut through cloth,jumper and into thumb.

hold razor with spine facing you and edge away,apply oil on the blade then use a piece of tissue from spine to edge to spread the oil, this wont cut then move along the blade slowly adding more if nessisary

this is one of the safer ways to oil them

Somewhat unrelated, but if you want to SEE why hot water should be used, grab a 10x or higher lens and look at your edge after you "dry" it.

You should be able to see that the blade and edge are still actually moist, but the moisture will evaporate before your eyes in a matter of seconds (faster when the water is hotter).

I had a situation here last year where at the end of the shaves I had a "scum" on almost everything that I used for shaving. Even went out to buy some "scrubbing bubbles" like stuff to clean up with! Chged soap, chged preshave. Etc nothing helped.
Then all of a sudden it stopped forming! Not to return. Only thing that I could figure was that the water co. Had changed some chemical that they used and then went back to using their previous formulas.

Originally Posted by shanky887614

do not do this.

i did this awhile ago and it cut through cloth,jumper and into thumb.

hold razor with spine facing you and edge away,apply oil on the blade then use a piece of tissue from spine to edge to spread the oil, this wont cut then move along the blade slowly adding more if nessisary

this is one of the safer ways to oil them

I do this after EVERY shave and have been doing so for 9 months. Take care while doing so, respect your blade, and you'll be just fine...

Originally Posted by Johnus

I had a situation here last year where at the end of the shaves I had a "scum" on almost everything that I used for shaving. Even went out to buy some "scrubbing bubbles" like stuff to clean up with! Chged soap, chged preshave. Etc nothing helped.
Then all of a sudden it stopped forming! Not to return. Only thing that I could figure was that the water co. Had changed some chemical that they used and then went back to using their previous formulas.

I am on well water so that may be it. Never even thought about it but it makes total sense since my shower curtains have the same type of scum on them.

Originally Posted by Swan

I am on well water so that may be it. Never even thought about it but it makes total sense since my shower curtains have the same type of scum on them.

There could be the problem, Well Water is an unknown, I have tons of different issues from our well water. it really just depends on what your well is producing..

The alcohol wipe is probably your best bet, to get the blade to a neutral state..

"scum" on curtains and everywhere in the bathroom is LIMESCALE, on the blade it is rather soap scum - Soap scum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia