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Can HIV Virus Transfer Through Shaving Cream?

HIV Virus can alive in shaving cream?
Yesterday i gone in barber shop, i am confused he used a new blade.
before he shave he used cream on my face after he used razer.I want to know that if blade has been carrying HIV virus then it would be alive when it mixed or touched in shaving cream?
Tue, 4 Mar 2014
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HIV AIDS Specialist,  's  Response
Hi,
Welcome to HCM.

Presently no barber shop is using a single blade for more than one person. Even if it is so, and if we consider a person who had a shaving prior to you had HIV, and if he had a cut or abrasion, HIV can not live in the blade not more than one or two minutes outside atmosphere. When the blood or body fluid got dried HIV would have died and there is no chance for HIV transmission to another person.
Moreover HIV cannot be viable in shaving cream. Just a contact is enough to kill the same.
So there is no chance for you to get HIV through this way.
Dr S.Murugan
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Can HIV Virus Transfer Through Shaving Cream?

Hi, Welcome to HCM. Presently no barber shop is using a single blade for more than one person. Even if it is so, and if we consider a person who had a shaving prior to you had HIV, and if he had a cut or abrasion, HIV can not live in the blade not more than one or two minutes outside atmosphere. When the blood or body fluid got dried HIV would have died and there is no chance for HIV transmission to another person. Moreover HIV cannot be viable in shaving cream. Just a contact is enough to kill the same. So there is no chance for you to get HIV through this way. Dr S.Murugan