I have a cabinet in my bathroom that houses my stock of razor blades; about 1,000 in all (that's a different story)! Anyway, it's not exactly firmly mounted to the wall at the bottom and can be a little wobbly at times when opening the doors. Yes, it's directly over the toilet! So, my wife opened the doors tonight to get her contact lenses out and 3o of my Gem SE blades and 20 of my Israeli Personna DE blades ended up in the toilet... with yellow mellow water! She called me upstairs and told me to hurry! I was shocked when I saw what had happened. She asked me if I wanted a glove, but I reached right in! I had to save my beloved blades! They're stainless steel blades and I took them out of their cartridges and rinsed them one by one. They are now out to dry now and I hope they're safe. Once dry, I plan on putting them back in their cartridges. My wife told me to throw them out and blamed me for not flushing. How dare she! She said I had enough blades to last me till I'm 100 and stop moaning! What? Well, she might be right! It sounds silly, but will stainless steel survive that kind of a dunk? Should I shave with them? What would you do?
If I'm not mistaken, and someone can correct me if I am, but I believe I have read stories of American POW's in Vietnam urinating over wounds to wash them out because that was all they had. So....not sure if that is the most sanitary thing to do (wound flushing or using blades washed off after the yellow dunk), but I don' think it will kill you.
If they're stainless blades a little dunk and rinse shouldn't hurt them. You could also give them a dunk in 91% rubbing alcohol to sanitize if you wanted.
I'd toss them but the only other really sanitary option is soak them in barbicide for ten minutes. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk
Im sure if you soak them in alcohol they would be fine, but I would not be able to use those to shave with myself...I think there is a seinfeld episode along these lines... and also, your wife is right....FLUSH THE TOILET WHEN YOUR DONE!!!!!!!!
I would sanitise them. It's not the urine that will hurt you, it's the bacteria lurking in the pan, from fecal matter that could possibly cause you a problem if you cut yourself. That's my take.
I would think a rinse followed either by a soak in Barbicide or a couple dunks in rubbing alcohol should do it. I wouldn't put them back in their dispensers though because I would expect the plastic dispensers to be the items that would be most likely to harbor bacteria after a swim in the toilet. Lastly, please remember that nobody here offering you these tips bears any responsibility if you keep and use the blades rather than just recycling them and then end up experiencing some piss poor shaves...
I actually tried to get them back in their dispensers this morning, but that doesn't work. I don't feel as bad about the Israeli Personna blades because I have so many DE blades, but my Gems! I feel so bad about chucking all of them. Well, I think I'll use the Gem blades for my paint scraper so it's not money "down the drain". The fecal matter is what has me concerned the most and i didn't even consider that till BamaT mentioned it. Yikes! While I was giving another cleaning to the blade this morning, my wife reminded me to always flush and close the lid. I feel like I'm 12 again!
