Hi,
For my 40 years of shaving, I have never cleaned anything unless I picked up a new-to-me razor. Then, I clean it once and never again.
I do wipe the razor parts off with a washcloth when I change the blade. Typically once a week. During the week, I just loosen the head snd run water thru. That prevents soap residue build-up. This is something my father and grandfathers never did, though. Every razor I got from them were full of soap bulid-up.
I never clean the brush. Not a specific cleaning, anyway. They are used with soap for crying out loud. Rinsing out the soap constitutes cleaning. And before anyone says this is bad for the brush, it never bothered the boar brush I used for over 20 years or dad's brush he got in 1948 and stopped using in 1996 when he passed away.
And, the references to a brush 'holding water' makes no sense to me at all. Must be a bowl lather reference. I face lather and I do not want the brush holding water. I wet it and then shake all the water out. After that, it is just a case of dampening the hair tips and swirling on the soap puck and then my face to build lather in cycles. If the brush were wet, the lather would never build and it would make for a runny mess.
Stan
For my 40 years of shaving, I have never cleaned anything unless I picked up a new-to-me razor. Then, I clean it once and never again.
I do wipe the razor parts off with a washcloth when I change the blade. Typically once a week. During the week, I just loosen the head snd run water thru. That prevents soap residue build-up. This is something my father and grandfathers never did, though. Every razor I got from them were full of soap bulid-up.
I never clean the brush. Not a specific cleaning, anyway. They are used with soap for crying out loud. Rinsing out the soap constitutes cleaning. And before anyone says this is bad for the brush, it never bothered the boar brush I used for over 20 years or dad's brush he got in 1948 and stopped using in 1996 when he passed away.
And, the references to a brush 'holding water' makes no sense to me at all. Must be a bowl lather reference. I face lather and I do not want the brush holding water. I wet it and then shake all the water out. After that, it is just a case of dampening the hair tips and swirling on the soap puck and then my face to build lather in cycles. If the brush were wet, the lather would never build and it would make for a runny mess.
Stan
