Thread: Cleaning/Polishing Ivory, Bone, Etc.

I was gifted this Clauberg Tonsorial Gem razor the other day and the handles are unlike anything I've run across in my very limited experience. All of my other razors have some sort of plastic or horn scales. This one feels different and looks different. From reading the threads here about ivory I think it MIGHT be ivory, but the scales are not very thin, so I don't know.

I'd really like to clean these scales up, but I don't want to do anything that might damage them if they are in fact ivory (or maybe ox bone or something).

Any tips?

Thanks!

Toothpaste and a tooth brush are in my opinion one of the best ways to clean ivory and bone.

some mild dish soap and warm water using an Oxyclean pad (mr clean magic eraser)
Polish with white diamond compound on a soft cotton wheel.
looks like celluloid tho.

Looks like celluloid to me. Either celluloid or ivory will clean up with a rubdown using Mother's Polish.

That's celluloid. Scrub it good with diluted simple green, maybe a bit of Comet with a toothbrush. Don't soak it! Maas and paper towels!

I've never seen grain lines like that in ivory.