Thread: Strange Miscolouring after cleaning/polishing

First of all I want to say Hello to all of you, this being my first post and I am new in this forum. This place is a wealth of information and the general attitude and atmosphere seems to be relaxed, friendly and helpfull. I have only touched the surface of straight razor shaving and have so much yet to learn. I hope that after a year or two of practice and with this forum's help I might even be able to get the hang of this straight razor shaving bussiness.

With that out of the way, let's continue with today's topic:

I bought a razor for around 10$ on ebay which I intended to clean and hone and use. So I took some stuff I had at home wich I thought would be good to clean the thing with, and after I was done I found that the colour of the blade changed in a few seconds, it just bloomed up. It seems more likely to me that it was the combination of some compounds in the various liquids I used that reacted together making the effect rather than one substance alone, since I recall I didn't think of wiping/cleaning the blade before applying the next liquid (stupid).


(Razor after cleaning/polishing with the miscolouring effect)

I live in Sweden and I do not know the translation of some of the liquids I used into english, so I will try to direct-translate some of it. However here comes the stuff I used in no particular order:

1 A polishing liquid called "Fubrima Puts" which claims to give "effective shine on copper, brass, aluminium, stainless steel, silver etc", which has the following ingredients listed: "Water, Silica Earth, Ammonium Citrate, Isopropyl Alcohol, Ammonium Qxalate, Soft Soap, Colour, Parfume"

2 "Chemically clean gasoline/petrol" used for "effectivly removing stains of oil, grease and glue." ingredients listed: "petroleum"

3 "Alsolsprit" which is a desinfecting and draining alcohol based medical liquid which label use says "for drying of wettening wounds/rashes, Eases discomfort of insect-bites." ingredients listed: "1 ml liquid has: Aluminiumacetotartrat 10 mg, etanol, ättikssyra (Sorry I dont know how to translate that) and purified water."

4 "Klorhexidin Fresenius Kabi" 0,5 mg/ml. Bottle uses says it's an antisepticum and kills bacteria. Ingredients listed: "Klorhexidinacetat 500mg, natriumacetat, ättikssyra, sterile water, ISOTON."

So I am curious if anyone can make out from the descriptions above what exactly happened and why the miscolouring occured. It would be interesting to find out what substance or combination of substances caused it.

My lesson learned from this: Don't just use whatever you have that you think will work to desinfect and clean your razor. And I'm happy it didn't happen to a razor that was more precious to me

Thank you for reading and for your answers, and I hope my first post followed recommending posting guidelines.

Best regards,

Jx4