Thread: Spent lather

I just watched a video where the guy wipes off his razor on a sponge in the sink. I wipe mine off on a folded tissue on a towel but I use my finger underneath the tissue for stability. I do run the risk of slicing my finger but so far, so good. I am hesitant to run the razor under the tap for the fear of chipping it on the plumbing. What other methods/techniques are out there that I might not have considered?

occasionally I'll wipe the razor on a hand towel that I have hanging near my sink. I normally just run the blade under hot water but that doesn't always remove all of the cut whiskers from the blade and I like to have a nice, perfectly clean blade for each pass.

The towel needs washed often, the lather makes it a bit 'stale' when it drys.

Originally Posted by steveg

I just watched a video where the guy wipes off his razor on a sponge in the sink. I wipe mine off on a folded tissue on a towel but I use my finger underneath the tissue for stability. I do run the risk of slicing my finger but so far, so good. I am hesitant to run the razor under the tap for the fear of chipping it on the plumbing. What other methods/techniques are out there that I might not have considered?

I've never understood the rationale of this fear. You have enough confidence in your hand/eye coordination to place a piece of metal that is sharp enough to leave a scar on your throat which houses the main artery to your brain but don't think you quite have the talent to place it in a stream of water without banging it on the faucet? To keep from getting cut you have to have your blade angle/pressure and position in a very small window when shaving but somehow it takes too much concentration to place this same razor anywhere in a water stream that requires no particular angle or pressure and around 10 inches of travel between banging on the faucet and the drain??

And your method makes even less sense with your finger underneath....just run it under the faucet.

Opps. Sorry for the post. I'll just run it under the faucet and thanks for the advice.

Originally Posted by steveg

Opps. Sorry for the post. I'll just run it under the faucet and thanks for the advice.

Just be careful not to ding the razor on the faucet and try to keep water out of the pivot area.

Originally Posted by steveg

Opps. Sorry for the post. I'll just run it under the faucet and thanks for the advice.

No need for apologies.
Running it under the sink is a decent way to clean off the lather.
I, however, do not use that approach.
I'm not afraid of dinging it, but I just don't want my carbon steel razors to be more wet than needed.
I use the sponge approach, and have found that to be safe, relatively dry, and without risk of dinging it or getting water in places where it will do no good.

I know the video you're speaking of and in my honest opinion it probably takes more (concentration) to not tap the blade off the bottom of the sink when using the sponge than it does to not hit the faucet. Again, I don't think it'd be difficult either way, it's just a preference thing as is almost everything else in this shaving world.

Originally Posted by ats200

I know the video you're speaking of and in my honest opinion it probably takes more (concentration) to not tap the blade off the bottom of the sink when using the sponge than it does to not hit the faucet. Again, I don't think it'd be difficult either way, it's just a preference thing as is almost everything else in this shaving world.

I bet we are thinking of the same video. Chimensch, right?
One small observation though, the sponge thing is a great idea, leaving it in the bottom of the sink, not so much.
In other words, my sponge is put on the side of the sink
Flat area, and without objects to ding anything against.

Ah well, variety is the spice of life, eh?

I use either a sponge or a washing cloth that I put on the edge of the sink and wipe the lather of with a stroping-like motion and rinse the blade under hot running water when I'm finished.

Gentlemen:

I rinse my blade under hot water at the beginning of my shave and at the end. During the shave the razor is wiped on a microfiber cloth. Done and no worries.