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Back in May of this year, I was in Halifax on a business trip, when I realized I forgot to bring a razor with me. Rather than let my less-than-stellar beard grow in, I decided to go pick up some inexpensive disposable razors. So off to the local drugstore I went, where I found a five pack of Gillette “Good News!” razors.

I’m not really sure what the good news is, but I found it kind of humourous nonetheless. It reminds me of some kind of poor Japanese-to-English translation or something.

So a few days ago, I was shaving and decided to look at the ingredients on the can of shaving cream. I was using Gillette’s “Foamy Barber Shop Clean” cream. To my surprise, I found the ingredients included isobutane, propane and butane, three very flammable substances. This concerned me a little, since I put this stuff on my face and genitals all the time. Uh, I mean face only….

After doing a bit of research, I realized these extremely flammable chemicals are used as a propellant, and they evaporate quite quickly upon being released from the can. However, I was pretty sure there would be some residual propane or butane left in the foam. So my brothers and I did a little test. We took an ordinary candle and the can of hot flaming death and we saw flames! The makes me question the safety of such a common household product. What if I was having a romantic shave with a few candles going, and suddenly my face went up in flames? I’m sure it’s not likely, but it could happen. Take a look at the video and the screenshots below:

This entry was posted on Friday, November 25th, 2005 at 11:44 am and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Back in May of this year, I was in Halifax on a business trip, when I realized I forgot to bring a razor with me. Rather than let my less-than-stellar beard grow in, I decided to go pick up some inexpensive disposable razors. So off to the local drugstore I went, where I found a five pack of Gillette “Good News!” razors.

I’m not really sure what the good news is, but I found it kind of humourous nonetheless. It reminds me of some kind of poor Japanese-to-English translation or something.

So a few days ago, I was shaving and decided to look at the ingredients on the can of shaving cream. I was using Gillette’s “Foamy Barber Shop Clean” cream. To my surprise, I found the ingredients included isobutane, propane and butane, three very flammable substances. This concerned me a little, since I put this stuff on my face and genitals all the time. Uh, I mean face only….

After doing a bit of research, I realized these extremely flammable chemicals are used as a propellant, and they evaporate quite quickly upon being released from the can. However, I was pretty sure there would be some residual propane or butane left in the foam. So my brothers and I did a little test. We took an ordinary candle and the can of hot flaming death and we saw flames! The makes me question the safety of such a common household product. What if I was having a romantic shave with a few candles going, and suddenly my face went up in flames? I’m sure it’s not likely, but it could happen. Take a look at the video and the screenshots below:

This entry was posted on Friday, November 25th, 2005 at 11:44 am and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.