Thread: let your razor rest

I heard that you are suppose to let your razor rest 48 hrs after using it . Is this true ? Then how many razor are you suppose to have?

Think about it. Would a professional barber have his razors sitting around resting??? I don't think so.

Old wives tale.

Sush,
I've shown SWMBO this well known fact on the internet.
She now accepts that I need more razors

dbriz,

This 'resting' business has been shown to be an 'old wives tale'.

Similarly with the don't strop for the first 'n' (where n = 3,4,5,6,7 etc)shaves, which seems to accompany the above,

When I shaved exclusively with one razor, it didn't seem to mind being used daily and not being rested !

Have fun !

Best regards

Russ

This has been discussed before. If you want more of the same :
http://straightrazorpalace.com/shavi...=resting+razor

I can't think of anyone who defends the post shave razor resting theory.... except the guys who need to justify their purchases to their wives

Great marketing ploy back in the day though. Sounds reasonable, no way to disprove it (then) and gets blokes to buy more razors!

Like I need any more excuses to drool over new razors............

Sometimes it's good to let your face rest for 48 hours between shaves.

Has the myth been bumped up to 48 hours now? It used to only be 24 hours..

I doubt there is any truth to this. Some razors get rested only because I'm working my way through the rotation sometimes I use the same razor for a week. There has never seemed to be any difference to me.

There is a lot of old wives tales , and junk science floating around . Resting razors is one of them . When I was a kid back in the '60's , I had an old set of encyclopedias from the 1920's . In one of them I read that you could boil water in paper , because the boiling point of water was at a lower temp. than the flash point of paper . Therefore the water would absorb the heat from the paper keeping it from igniting . This sounded good to me , so I tried it . I found a small paper box , made a handle out of string for it , filled it about halfway with water , and held it over the burner of the stove . Guess what happened . That's right , the box caught on fire , and the water spilled all over the burner . This experiment taught me that you can't believe everything you read , even if it's in the encyclopedia .