Photo by Stuart Conner.
Redditor russell_m explains:
Paint the bottom ring of your shaving cream cans with clear nail polish and they won’t leave rust rings in your bathroom.
This actually works on all sorts of things. I had a glass that was painted on the bottom and leaving marks on my wood table, and clear nail polish puts a nice layer of protection between them.
Use Clear Nail Polish to Keep Metal Cans from Rusting [Reddit]
Perfiasc
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 1:17 PMMost definitely going to try this out – I am so sick of seeing little burnt-red rings on my bathroom counter from my dear spouse’s stupid shaving cream cans!
Matt Esse
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 2:03 PMI’ve found a faster solution is just store the can up-side-down on the plastic lid. Rings gone.
Caitlin
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 2:11 PMThis occurred to me randomly a few months ago and I tried it – it’s working on my partner’s shaving cream can (which lives in the shower) perfectly! Clear nail polish will also stop runs in stockings from getting worse (almost all stocking-wearing women know this already) and it sealed the crack between segments of my electric toothbrush that kept catching old toothpaste. A surprisingly handy thing to have around the house.
Craig
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 2:31 PMIt doesn’t need to be nail polish, it can be be anything which forms a film and isn’t water soluble e.g paints, glues, silicon etc.
[doa]
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 3:21 PMI also coat the side weld on items under my kitchen sink that may take a year or two to go through.
Drew
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 6:51 PMI just buy the aluminum cans(nivea) instead of the steel ones.