Thread: Blade Temperature

You can, and I have, get a reddened razor "burn" from just the irritation caused by an overzealous hand or too dull a razor .... i.e. just the blade irritation. But the more lasting razor burn is actually a bacterial infection.

Religiously disinfecting your razor with, for instance, 70% isopropyl alcohol followed with a tap-water-hot rinse will greatly reduce your exposure to razor burn.

As a scientific sidebar, alcohol needs a solution of water to be effective in disinfecting. Purer alcohol concentrations are going to be less effective. Leave the 90+ percentages on the shelf!

daviduthe

Originally Posted by HoekmanX

A cold blade should stay "sharper" longer (making sure x=y, x being warm sharpness and y being cold sharpness).

Hoekie

I stopped reading at "x=y". sorry...

Originally Posted by uthed

As a scientific sidebar, alcohol needs a solution of water to be effective in disinfecting. Purer alcohol concentrations are going to be less effective. Leave the 90+ percentages on the shelf!

daviduthe

David, nice info, i didn't know that. So, can I dilute my 96% ethanol with water, and how? Is it simple 1/4 water and 3/4 96%ethanol or??

Thanx,
Nenad

Originally Posted by superfly

David, nice info, i didn't know that. So, can I dilute my 96% ethanol with water, and how? Is it simple 1/4 water and 3/4 96%ethanol or??

Thanx,
Nenad

Hey, I never said I was a pharmacist ..... just an obscessed Internet surfer ..... any chemists out there? And here's another question .... Will Stolichnaya do just as well?

@ Superfly:

Forget x=y then and read have the same sharpness at different blade-warths ...... :-)


@ Uthed:

Stolichnaya technically would do, as long as it is "pure" alcohol dilution (over 40% would do I guess, what disinfective function would aftershave otherwise have?) and hasn't got any additives.

Hoekie