I have a Wade and Butcher that I got off the 'bay. During cleaning it up, I ran the scales under water to get some gunk out of between them. Bad idea. Ever since then, they keep oxidizing (turning white). I used some wood polisher stuff (I was at my grandparent and it was the only thing available) and that fixed the problem. I sent the razor off to get honed, and when I got it back, I had since purchased some Mothers polish and wanted to further shine up the razor. I used the Mothers on the scales as well, having seen here that it was an acceptable thing to do. Turned the scales a nice deep black. I was happy. Stored the razor in its case, but when I got it out a little while later to shave, I was displeased to see that the scales were white again. I shaved, and then hit them with the Mothers again. Stored the razor and haven't looked at it since. I guess we will find out if they oxidized yet again.

Is there any easy solution to this so where I won't have to worry about it anymore?