Thread: Blade Lather removal

I scrape it off on a piece of 80 grit sandpaper.

I'm a sponge advocate myself. I buy three packs for a buck and change, use them until they're nicked up or otherwise unserviceable then simply throw them away and pull out another sponge. Seems to work very well. I figure the more water I apply to the razor, the more I will need to remove after the shave to prevent rust. PS: A Phillips Norelco add on SRP!? What's up with that?

I rinse it off under a slow trickle of running hot water. I don't dry it off before using it. The more lubrication the better IMO.

I use my index finger and run it down the length of the blade.
And then a flick into the sink.

I run the blade under hot water and then pinch the edge between my thumb and forefinger and run it up the length of the blade (careful!!!)

I wipe most of the lather onto a sponge, then swirl the blade gently in the center of a sink of hot water. The hot water is also for getting warm lather -- I mix the lather a tad drier than needed, work it in, then dip the brush in the hot water and rework the lather to get it warm and just right. I guess this is semi face-lathering. I like playing with the shaving bowl.

Originally Posted by sheffieldlover

I scrape it off on a piece of 80 grit sandpaper.

I just shoot it an "I mean business, punk" glance and it leaps off the blade in terror.

Seriously, sometimes I wipe it on a wet towel, sometimes I rinse it under the tap, and once I stropped it off on my left wrist (after I watched a Geo video where he demonstrated the technique). FWIW the wrist stropping method works fine until you switch hands to do the other side of your face and re-apply hairy used cream to your head....what a silly idea that was

Rinse it in a squirt of water from the sink. One of my conditions for a decent shave soap is that the lather should rinse off the blade without me having to touch it, just the water should do the trick. Threw out a tub of AOS sandalwood cream with that being half the reason (parabens the other half).

I usually go through my entire first pass with one hand like a kamisori shaver would and do just the part under the opposite sideburn flipping the razor over and using the other side of the bevel. That allows me to do almost the entire first pass without rinsing off the lather.

I wipe it on a rubber barber's drip bowl. Same concept as a sponge.

Stropping motion on the bottom of my forearm.