How to Clean a Razor to Avoid Cuts

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Kevin on behalf of Expert Village talking about how to avoid razor burn and razor cuts. If you look closely at your razor as you're shaving, you're going to see a lot of junk collecting along the razor's edge. Shaving cream, hair, dead skin. They all clutter at the edge of the razor. If you have a double or triple razor, the whole thing gets gummed up and it can really dull down the edge of the razor. It's important that you keep the water in the faucet hot and that you clean off the edge of the razor every few strokes. Then wipe the razor on a towel. Then rinse the blade under hot water again because you want to heat it up before it touches your skin. A hot blade is going to cut the hair much easier than a cold blade will. Another reason is that there's a lot of bacteria that builds up along the edge of the razor. If you cut yourself with the razor, that bacteria can get in the cut and cause some redness and swelling. If you continually wash out the blade, then you're washing out some of that bacteria. You sometimes see people fill up a skin with hot water and they swish their razor in there to clean out the blade. The problem is that's dirty water. You're not really cleaning your blade. Plus, that water is not going to stay hot for very long. Use hot water from the faucet. You don't have to leave it running all the time. Just leave it enough so that the water stays hot. "