why would a fogless mirror suddenly stop working

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Bought a fogless mirror a year ago - a great little (relatively expensive) gift to myself, as i much prefer to shave in the shower. It has always worked perfectly. But lately it's been fogging up. And I don't mean a little - I mean like any other NON fogless mirror, obscuring everything, reflecting nothing, rendering it a pointless object suction-cupped to the shower wall. Why did this happen?

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Do you have ghosts?

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:01 (nineteen years ago) link

It probably had some kind of coating on it that went away if you washed it with the wrong kind of cleaner.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:02 (nineteen years ago) link

no ghosts. they know about the guns.

i've never washed it! and if that's true - what a ripoff

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:04 (nineteen years ago) link

A quick and shoddy google revealed a guy's story about his fogless mirror suddenly losing its foglessness, so it sounds like it might be a problem. A FUCKING GHOST PROBLEM

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:05 (nineteen years ago) link

It's certainly a bad omen, anyway.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I've had like dozens of these. They never hold up. I shave in the shower anyway, at some point I figured out how to get by with a Mach 3, two hands and hot water and haven't really looked back.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, I would imagine that the "fogless coating" would be some sort of chemical or something that would eventually lose its effectiveness after a period of being used. Anyway, I saw last night on "How Clean is Your House?" that "foglessness" can be restored just by rubbing shaving cream into your mirror (until the smudgy cream "disappears" into the mirror) and that, if you do that sort of treatment once a month, you'd never have a problem with the mirrors fogging up ever again.

(Yeah, I've started watching that program. Um, it's purely guilty pleasure viewing, I assure you.)

― Drama Queen Wannabe (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 05:57 (nineteen years ago) link

i like that show but GODDAMN i have to look away sometimes, them some filthy motherfuckas.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 06:11 (nineteen years ago) link

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