i get barbicide from ny barber for free.dont use it often but it looks cool in my barbicide jar,and it doesnt hurt to sterilize things once in a while
Serious question: how do the folks with germ phobias handle going to out to a restaurant and using the utensils others have put into their mouths? There are 500 to 1000 different bacteria types at any given time in the human mouth. People with unclean mouths can have 1000 to 100,000 bacteria living on each tooth. Think about the people with various mouth sores, cut lips, etc, that touch the utensils your mouth touches. Think about that the next time you're at a restaurant.
"First off, unless you're really germaphobic, Barbicide is overkill."
First of all, In todays world there is no such thing as being to careful ,or overkill, so barbicide is smart. Laying sick or dying due to a germ that no one's ever heard of is way, way bad news.
How do we know if Barbicide kills off the germs that no one has ever heard of?
"First off, unless you're really germaphobic, Barbicide is overkill."
First of all, In todays world there is no such thing as being to careful ,or overkill, so barbicide is smart. Laying sick or dying due to a germ that no one's ever heard of is way, way bad news.
Serious question: how do the folks with germ phobias handle going to out to a restaurant and using the utensils others have put into their mouths? There are 500 to 1000 different bacteria types at any given time in the human mouth. People with unclean mouths can have 1000 to 100,000 bacteria living on each tooth. Think about the people with various mouth sores, cut lips, etc, that touch the utensils your mouth touches. Think about that the next time you're at a restaurant.
I inadvertently left a Gillette T3 black beauty in my soaking vat of Barbicide for almost 3 solid days, and when I remembered, upon removing it, I found there was a jelly like substance attached to the handle, upon removing the stuff I found a hole had been eaten into the metal, leaving a couple small gouges in the knurling of the handle just below the adjuster. I wish I had taken photos of the crud before i removed it, it was rather interesting. The razor was going to be a BirthYear/Qtr razor gift to a friend but not any more. When I looked at the hole through a 30x loupe, I saw the material the handle was made of was not brass. I believe it was a cast metal of some sort. I am grateful I had won a second one on the bay, prior to remembering I had forgotten the first one in the vat!!
I really hope ya'll haven't been using dihydrogen monoxide to clean your razors!!
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
OMG what must we do to rid ourselves of this terrible pollutant?
I really hope ya'll haven't been using dihydrogen monoxide to clean your razors!!
DHMO.org said:One of the most surprising facts recently revealed about Dihydrogen Monoxide contamination is in its use as a food and produce "decontaminant." Studies have shown that even after careful washing, food and produce that has been contaminated by DHMO remains tainted by DHMO.
If you're going to include prions in the mix, NOTHING ON EARTH is sterilization. Even an autoclave doesn't alter a prion.Keep in mind that this is only disinfection, not sterilization and prions will still survive as they would using various barbicide type liquids and toilet bowl cleaner bubbles.
If you're going to include prions in the mix, NOTHING ON EARTH is sterilization. Even an autoclave doesn't alter a prion.
I wouldn't (and don't) soak new-to-me old razors in bleach, but if somebody wants to do it, I would caution them not to use more than about 15% bleach in water. That'll kill pretty much anything (prions excepted).
And by the way, nobody has ever contracted a prion disease from a razor.
I didn't sleep at a Holiday Inn last night, but I am an infectious diseases subspecialist in practice for 27 years.
You'll probably die eventually. Every human who has ever lived died after contact.Yikes! I definitely have used this chemical substance to clean a shaving brush before. Is it a total loss or is it salvageable?