Sanitize used shaving creams & soaps

[Bk124tt]

I hope you don't see this is to much of a germ a
phobe question BUT are there any precautions other than taking a little off of the top to ensure a sanitized shaving soap/cream?
Thanks for any input!

 

[dpm802]

I hope you don't see this is to much of a germ a
phobe question BUT are there any precautions other than taking a little off of the top to ensure a sanitized shaving soap/cream?
Thanks for any input!

That's how its done. Take a little off the top.

Get it wet, rub it with a clean washcloth or make a test lather or two with a cheap brush. (I wouldn't use paper towels or toilet paper because they might break down and leave fibers behind in the soap.)

And no matter what you do, the soap will never become "sterile" or "sanitized." The most you can expect is to remove stray hairs and bristles and the top layer or two of dried suds.

If you are truly germaphobic, then don't buy anything except factory-fresh soaps.

 

[drocu]

I don't bother. I just use them as they come.

If you're really concerned, just buy creams in the tube instead. Or buy new, as dpm802 suggested.

 

[Bk124tt]

Maybe a little concern! I wouldn't say enough to keep me from purchasing. But enough concern to ask for a few different opinions. Nothing a little off the top won't cure ;-)
thanks!!

 

[njpaddy]

I do a test lather or two. Same as I do with a used brush.

 

[luvmysuper]

I just usually wash them off with soap and water.

 

[LegionPrime]

Sanitize soap? Isn't it self cleaning? Well, that is operating under the premise that it's only been used for shaving faces that is.

 

[Prince]

Unless it is obviously dirty, is just use it. But then again, I live by the 5 second rule if I drop something on the kitchen floor.

 

[superbleu]

soap, wash off outer layer then good to go.
Creams, you can dump some 70% rubbing alcohol on top swirl around, then dump off and let dry.
But I think the pH is so high not much can live/survive in it.

 

[Arcadies]

I stopped buying 2nd hand soap/creams when the last cream I got had several small thick and kinky little hairs embedded in it. They weren't badger hairs either...yeah.

 

[superbleu]

I stopped buying 2nd hand soap/creams when the last cream I got had several small thick and kinky little hairs embedded in it. They weren't badger hairs either...yeah.

wow, too bad we don't have a seller feedback systems here.

 

[The M]

Well if your barber has one of those uv light sanitizing systems couldnt you take it to him ,and get him to run it through a cyle while you get a hair cut or shave.

 

[cryhavoc]

Well if your barber has one of those uv light sanitizing systems couldnt you take it to him ,and get him to run it through a cyle while you get a hair cut or shave.

If you are that worried about it I think it would be best to buy a new soap

 

[The M]

Im not worried about it. I was saying if your truly worried about it then hit the soap with a uv sanitizer and kill all those lil germ beasts.

 

[cryhavoc]

Im not worried about it. I was saying if your truly worried about it then hit the soap with a uv sanitizer and kill all those lil germ beasts.

Gotcha

 

[Kramerica]

I just have mine replated!

...sorry, couldn't resist ........

 

[luvmysuper]

I just have mine replated!

...sorry, couldn't resist ........

Now that's funny right there.

 

[Malaspina]

With the exception of hair in the soap, ewwwwww factor there , shared soap is safe. The pH of soap, real soap that is, not the detergent stuff, is between 9 and 11. That kind of environment isn't friendly to bacteria, fungus or mold which is why soap does not need a preservative system.

If it were me - cream soap I would scoop the top layer off and if there were hairs there, ewww factor again, I would get rid of it. With solid pucks I would use as hot a water as I could stand and wash the puck off. It is actually less sanitary than a cream shaving soap just because it is hard and hairs, ewwww factor, can't embed themselves in the soaps itself.

 

[CHSeifert]

I just put mine in the dishwasher and they're good to go from there

 

[LegionPrime]

I just have mine replated!

...sorry, couldn't resist ........

Good, but . . .

I just put mine in the dishwasher and they're good to go from there

Actual *LOL*