Matt
Well-Known Member
Hello,
Another discoveries on my way to a perfect shave. Recently I decided to strongly force myself not to go over the same place repeatedly during a pass. A simple logic - if there's some lather, go there, if there's not, it means the edge has already been there, so that's a no-no. A bit hard for me at the beginning, as really like to have a BBS shave and I was keeping trying to go there too fast (apparently). Yeah I know, that's been said and written many times before... :
So, what are the results and conclusions? My skin feels a lot better, even after three, or (call it crazy!) four passes. Alum sting dropped noticeably, but I never suffered from razor burn, anyway. What's most important, is that what has haunted me forever seems to be going away. Skin condition after 24-48 hours. It was, more or less often getting itchy, some ingrowns were appearing from time to time. Now these effects are mostly gone, and yay, BBS is so nicer!
Quite a while ago I observed that there's something like a very thin layer of epidermis forming on my neck after a shave, which I suspected was causing all these things. Somehow I stumbled on my DE thread where Robin recommended this product as a cure for ingrowns. The description says: "Its keratoreducing and emollient actions (...) prepare the hair to shaving, and make its grown easier." Well, keratoreducing action does not affect the hair, but definitely the skin. It all adds up now - too much pressure, or too many passes irritate skin, which in turn (probably more sensitive like mine has more tendency to behave like this) grows more cells that block follicles - and there you have ingrowns and other unpleasant effects.
Light passes, no repeating and keratoreducing action of some cosmetics - these will be my key words for a while from now.
regards,
Matt
Another discoveries on my way to a perfect shave. Recently I decided to strongly force myself not to go over the same place repeatedly during a pass. A simple logic - if there's some lather, go there, if there's not, it means the edge has already been there, so that's a no-no. A bit hard for me at the beginning, as really like to have a BBS shave and I was keeping trying to go there too fast (apparently). Yeah I know, that's been said and written many times before... :
So, what are the results and conclusions? My skin feels a lot better, even after three, or (call it crazy!) four passes. Alum sting dropped noticeably, but I never suffered from razor burn, anyway. What's most important, is that what has haunted me forever seems to be going away. Skin condition after 24-48 hours. It was, more or less often getting itchy, some ingrowns were appearing from time to time. Now these effects are mostly gone, and yay, BBS is so nicer!
Quite a while ago I observed that there's something like a very thin layer of epidermis forming on my neck after a shave, which I suspected was causing all these things. Somehow I stumbled on my DE thread where Robin recommended this product as a cure for ingrowns. The description says: "Its keratoreducing and emollient actions (...) prepare the hair to shaving, and make its grown easier." Well, keratoreducing action does not affect the hair, but definitely the skin. It all adds up now - too much pressure, or too many passes irritate skin, which in turn (probably more sensitive like mine has more tendency to behave like this) grows more cells that block follicles - and there you have ingrowns and other unpleasant effects.
Light passes, no repeating and keratoreducing action of some cosmetics - these will be my key words for a while from now.
regards,
Matt