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How To Get Rid Of Prickly Hair After Shaving?
Right after you shave, your skin feels smooth. A day later the same patch can feel like sandpaper. That prickly feeling is not a sign that your hair has become coarser: a razor cuts each hair to a blunt, flat tip, and it is that flat end you feel against your skin as the hair…
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Aftershave Lotions and Balms: How to Choose, and What to Buy
Something after the shave does two jobs: it settles the skin and, for many people, leaves a scent they like. The mistake is treating the two kinds the same. A lotion or splash is thin, often built on alcohol, and gives you a bracing, tightening finish and the stronger scent. A balm or gel is…
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Beard Bibs for Trimming: Six Hair Catchers Compared
A beard bib is a small, cheap fix for a specific annoyance: the trimmings that scatter over the sink and floor when you tidy your beard. It is an apron that hooks to the bathroom mirror with suction cups, fastens around your neck, and hangs with its pouch over the sink to catch the hair.…
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Alum Blocks for Shaving: What They Do and Which to Buy
An alum block is a cheap, old-fashioned upgrade to a shaving routine: a solid mineral crystal, usually potassium alum, that you glide over damp skin after shaving to tone it and to stop the bleeding from small nicks. It is worth trying if you get the odd nick or want a more traditional post-shave step.…
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Safety Razor Kits for Men: Six Sets Worth Buying
A safety razor kit makes sense when you want to start wet shaving in one purchase instead of assembling a razor, brush, bowl and soap separately. The catch is that a kit is only as good as its weakest part, and the accessories bundled with a cheap kit are often where the corners are cut.…
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How Do Foil Shavers Work? A Clear Explanation
A foil shaver cuts with a thin, perforated metal foil stretched over a row of blades that move side to side very quickly. Short hairs slip through the holes in the foil, and the oscillating blades trap and cut them against the foil. That design explains both its strengths and its limits: excellent on short…
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