Barbicide...

[Rowlers]

Can it be used more than once?
For some reason I have just been throwing it down the sink after wash use and it dawned on my today that I could store it an jam jar etc...
Any one else store it?

 

[Uncle Bertie]

I keep it for a month in a sealed kelner jar.

 

[sɐǝɹpu∀]

I use the same barbicide solution when a pass around razor arrives and when it leaves. If another razor is expected right afterwards I might use that solution again. Normally there is at least a month (often more) between pass arounds and I make a new solution when a razor arrives. The stuff doesn't cost the world.

 

[Rowlers]

Yep, just been googling and it doesn't keep forever so I may as well continue to use and bin.

 

[Mr Bigmem]

Can it be used more than once?
For some reason I have just been throwing it down the sink after wash use and it dawned on my today that I could store it an jam jar etc...
Any one else store it?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say your using it neat. Is I correct? If so you'll be wasting it a fair bit as it really is potent enough to use as a solution of 1/4 cup barbercide to 4 cups water. And yes from all health and safety advice for barbercide website it should be discarded on a daily basis. So if diluted you'll get more use out of a standard bottle

 

[Emma.BBA]

Barbercide should be changed within 24 hours once it has been used for anything.

 

[Wayne]

Mines 4 yr old use it for all the pass arounds and occasionally when Ii have no Cider left

 

[Uncle Bertie]

Oops, I better up my barbicide game

 

[Mr_Smartepants]

Barbercide should be changed within 24 hours once it has been used for anything.

Whoops. I've been swapping mine out monthly.

 

[Uncle Bertie]

Barbercide should be changed within 24 hours once it has been used for anything.

Thanks.

Incidentally, Barbercide sounds like killing hairdressers

 

[sɐǝɹpu∀]

Thanks.

Incidentally, Barbercide sounds like killing hairdressers

It's killing hairdressers by starving them, because they spend all their money on the stuff.
I can see the point in a professional environment, but I have my doubts if it necessary to change after 24 hours for personal use...

Incidentally, I keep my solution in a bright pink container, labelled Barbie-cide

 

[Uncle Bertie]

It's killing hairdressers by starving them, because they spend all their money on the stuff.
I can see the point in a professional environment, but I have my doubts if it necessary to change after 24 hours for personal use...

Incidentally, I keep my solution in a bright pink container, labelled Barbie-cide

I think I'll do my barbiciding in big batches from now on though.

 

[Rowlers]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say your using it neat. Is I correct? If so you'll be wasting it a fair bit as it really is potent enough to use as a solution of 1/4 cup barbercide to 4 cups water. And yes from all health and safety advice for barbercide website it should be discarded on a daily basis. So if diluted you'll get more use out of a standard bottle

No, I do dilute to the prescribed concentration. It jsut seemed a waste to use once and bin, but at the end of the day it is cheap enough!

 

[Emma.BBA]

No, I do dilute to the prescribed concentration. It jsut seemed a waste to use once and bin, but at the end of the day it is cheap enough!

Can't you just use less? Like 1/8 cup barbercide to 2 cups of water?
Or, Make up the 4 cups, and only use what you need, and then chuck it after 24 hours, but keep the unused dilution in a jar for when you need it next?

 

[Rowlers]

I currently use 1tbs in 300ml of water. I could half it I suppose, that would still be enough to submerge most razors