Hi everyone,

I have searched for this topic, both here and the wise google, but only came away with overall cleaning tips. AKA scrubbing bubbles soak, dish soap, q-tips, metal polish, etc.

But, I haven't seen any techniques for cleaning the handles which have the patterns on them. I have three gillettes, which the heads of them look great and shiny, but the handles all look sorta old. The handle of my adjustable one even seems to be coated in wax or something (years of soap scum?). I've tried soaking in the scrubbing bubbles and then hitting it with a toothbrush, but to no avail. What I can do is take my fingernail and scrape up and down one of the lines of the design and get off some of the grayish/greenish/ waxy stuff. Yet, my fingernail rubbing over that design pattern feels like someone scratching a chalkboard to me. Plus I can't get into the smaller crevices in the design with my nail.

It is driving me nuts that the rest of the DE looks flawless, yet the handles look like I haven't bothered cleaning them.

So my questions are:
1.) Anyone have a technique for cleaning the designs on gillette DEs?
2.) Could I use a brass wire brush, or would that damage it?

Thanks everyone!