Random tip: Shaving cream works great to clean stainless steel appliances!

[K8-EEE]

If you put a little bit on a no-scratch sponge or nylon scrubee thing....and rub it in with the grain, then you wipe it off with a damp towel and buff with a dry towel, voila!! Much cheaper than the stainless steel cleaners you buy at the store and, no yucky chem smell.

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. That's good news

Now I can do something with that can of Barbasol, which is useless for actually shaving with.

[Chan790]

2. It's also pretty good for use as a body-wash.

I mean I could use body-wash (and do) but the foamy stiffness of the shaving cream makes it ideal for washing areas where you want the "soap" to stay put until you remove it; it's ideal for washing armpits, backs and crotches thusly. Spray it on, lather it up, let it do its' cleaning thing, rinse it off.

Also, it's useful for suckering kids into washing. It was the only way to get my then 5 year old brother to smell good for church growing up...because the rest of the time he smelled worse than the dog. Give them the can and let them get soapy; works best with 2 or more kids so they can have a shaving cream fight, then you rinse them off with the hose when they're clean.

[K8-EEE]

3. Very useful stuff! Great on patio furniture too....nt

[mycatfred]

4. It also works on those red stains

that you get from eating strawberries, or drinking artificially red drinks.

[seabeyond]

5. excellent. i am going to give it a try. nt

[gvstn]

6. Works to keep bathroom mirrors from fogging up too. n/t

[MorningGlow]

7. And school desks

My son's first-grade teacher let the kids "play" with shaving cream on the last day of school--namely, draw with it on their desks, then they cleaned it off, taking with it random crayon and marker marks and dried globs of glue. Voila--end-of-year classroom cleanup done, and the kids thought they were having fun!

[GalleryGod]

8. Wow! Now that's Cool!

:yourock:

[K8-EEE]

13. wow! teachers, take note.... nt

[MrsBrady]

9. i use vinegar on stainless steel n/t

[K8-EEE]

14. vinegar, it's a bit dulling IMO

I use vinegar to clean the windows floors & toilets....but shaving cream is more shiny on stainless steel.

[Orrex]

10. Yeah, but it tastes like crap on pumpkin pie

[K8-EEE]

15. Wait let me try it first

Just in case you're wrong....no, I'll take your word for it!

[Kali]

16. ...

:spray:

you know, I was that girl behind you in class with the snot coming out of her nose due to your antics. And the teacher was always yelling at me about the disruptive laughter too. How come she never heard or saw what you were doing?

[marzipanni]

11. Shaving cream is fun to use to make a temporary mask

If you shake the can a lot so that the cream gets really dense you can apply it in points to your face, slowly drawing the nozzle outward away from your face. If you make a lot of pointed blobs it really looks impressive. They droop just a bit, and jiggle as you move.

The first tme I saw this was when my brother and his friend, then in ninth grade, did this to their faces, then walked around at dusk. The town police drove by them, made a U-turn, and told the boys they better not walk around like that as it might cause an accident when people driving along saw these weird white visages appear in the beam of their headlights.

[K8-EEE]

23. Farrah Fawcett & Joe Nameth have fun with shaving cream here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM59nSkjEWU

[Seneca]

12. Imagine if stainless steel had stubble

What a twofer that would be.

I can dream, can I?

[Turbineguy]

17. And it's even got a song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rpq6u8hYgk

[struggle4progress]

18. Thanks. My fridge has gotten really hairy

[Demoiselle]

19. As a scientifically challenged person, I'd like to know:

HOW was this discovered in the first place? Did someone go bonkers in the kitchen and just happen to fire off the Barbasol? And then clean it up in a fit of remorse? Or does someone have a stainless steel sink in his bathroom? Seriously.
And is this true of ALL shaving creams?
And, conversely, does this mean that I could use "WOW" (an officially labeled stainless steel cleaner sitting under my sink right now) to shave my legs?

[emilyg]

20. LOL

[K8-EEE]

22. I think you could maybe use "Wow" as a skin-peel treatment

If you know what I mean....OUCH!

[madinmaryland]

21. Have you asked Richard Steel how it works??

IBTL!!

[Old Troop]

24. I tried it, but the razor scratched the appliance.