I just came across a mention online talking about removing tarnish from silver by placing the item in boiling water along with baking soda and aluminum foil.

"The way it works is that the sodium carbonate and the aluminium react, because aluminium is more reactive than silver, and the reaction grabs an oxygen molecule from the silver oxide, which is the tarnish on silver, turning it back into silver and oxidises the aluminium, turning it into aluminium oxide (which is why if you use foil the foil ends up all crumbly). Sodium carbonate is more reactive than sodium bicarbonate so the reaction cleans the silver more effectively."

I was just wondering if anybody has tried this with razors, if it works on steel and gold, it may be a nice way to keep from losing that gold wash.