Recently a friend pointed me in the direction of this article titled "The Shaving Cream Racket"

My skin and shaving have never sat in perfect harmony. I've bought the most expensive blades, tried all the shaving foams and gels and always shaved directly after a hot shower as dictated by all the advice out there.

Still, and even shaving with a lot of care, I would nick myself regularly. At the very least particularly my neck would be left raw and red and generally not very healthy looking.

Because of all this heartbreak of the past ten years or so, I was willing to take a step into the breach and try the suggestions in the article I linked to above.

This meant shaving after a hot shower as I have always done, but with no shaving foam. Nothing. Nada. Just a wet face.

I'm three weeks in now and the difference is amazing. I'm using the bog standard blades instead of the uber-expensive ones for my razor, I'm shaving without any real care put into it and in half the time. I have vastly less nicks or shaving cuts, and most importantly my skin is much less unhealthily red looking and sore on my neck.

I couldn't help but share this little bit of life changing information. If you're going to try it, give it a chance, first few days are unnerving because you're so trained to think the shaving foam is protecting your skin, and I imagine it took my skin a few days to a week at least to recover from the damage that shaving foam had been doing to it.

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