Hydrocide is also good and is also sold at Sally's.
All I'm saying is that if there is a safer way to do this then why not do it.
...Furthermore how do we know that nobody has caught anything from using a razor cleaned using these household cleanser methods. In fact many people have no idea where they contracted Hepatitis and can only assume they got it from a previous partner. Maybe they did contract it from a razor? I mean, how would you know that they didn't? ...
True and false. True that most cant live for years but some can. False because you"re forgetting about each person that touches it passess something to it.
Who played with it just before you bought it???
... I've heard of plating being damaged with boiling, so I wouldn't try a pressure cooker. Having said that, I do wonder if an autoclave carries a similar risk.
A look at restaurants in three states, with samples analyzed by the lab at New York University’s Microbiology Department, has located the germiest spot in a restaurant. And it’s not the bathroom; not by a long shot. In fact, if you want to steer clear of nasty bacteria, you’re often better off eating your meal in the ladies room than from some of the surfaces in the dining room.
There was some good news.
Salad bars were not as bad as you might have thought, although maybe that means we’re not eating enough leafy green vegetables. And ketchup bottles, as sticky and goopy as they can be, don’t harbor much in the way of food-borne illnesses.
And the bad news: take a deep breath, maybe gargle some mouthwash, and let’s look at some of the yucky, germy, disgusting things you probably put in your mouth.
Rims of glasses
Servers will too often grip glasses right at the top where we drink, giving pathogens a direct route into our bodies. Multiple bacteria were found, including one linked with tuberculosis.
Tables
Next time a french fry falls off your plate onto the table, I suggest you leave it there. A primary culprit is babies—spilling, drooling, and inadequately potty-trained, they are like little petri dishes perched in high chairs. The kids might be gone from the table but the server’s damp rag guarantees that their germs will live on.
Salt and pepper shakers
How often are these cleaned? I mean really cleaned. That same rag that just mopped the table is not going to help matters. Fully 50% of the shakers tested positive for infectious contaminants.
Lemon wedges
On the fish plate, in the water pitcher, these are slices of bacterial garnish. Lemon juice does kill germs, but what about the germs on the lemon itself? Two-thirds of restaurant lemon wedges carry some kind of disease-causing microbes with E coli and other fecal bacteria in the lead, since half of the lemon wedges in the study contained human waste. You would need to dunk the fruit in bleach, not lemon juice, to kill it all.
Menus
Did you ever consider how many hands a menu has passed through? And if chips and salsa are served, take notice of how many people lick the salt off their fingers as they ponder the entrée selections. Strep and staph infections were found on menus, as well as cold and flu viruses which can survive for 18 hours on a laminated surface.
Seats
The top spot on the list is reserved for your bottom. Seventy percent of the chair seats had sickening bacteria on them. These seldom-sanitized surfaces are like cesspools on four legs with 17 different pathogens identified, including strains of E coli from fecal matter we routinely sit in.
I just lick mine all over before I use it the first time.
I'm just generally amused that folks take such extreme precautions on a razor but have no such qualms about using the soda dispensers at fast food restaurants or the ice machines there. A recent study found 75 percent of ice machines checked had ice that was dirtier than the water in the establishments toilets.
We are constantly exposed to horrendous contaminants, and never think twice about it. We obsess over a nickel plated metal razor, and then go to a restaurant and shove a spoon or a fork in our mouth that was in someone elses mouth less than an hour earlier.
..... We are constantly exposed to horrendous contaminants, and never think twice about it. We obsess over a nickel plated metal razor, and then go to a restaurant and shove a spoon or a fork in our mouth that was in someone elses mouth less than an hour earlier.