The shaving 101

1. Well prepare its skin

The first precaution to be taken is well to choose its moment. "The skin finds all its tonicity during the night".
It is thus preferable to shave the morning, before breakfast and after the shower.

According to experts, the chewing at the time of the meal would cause a blood surge which would make the skin more easily irritable.

From where interest to prepare before the breakfast while benefitting immediately from the benefits of the shower. Warm water makes it possible to soften and slacken the hair which will be easier to cross. At this time of the toilet, it is important to clean the face with a cream or a scaling lotion "before shaving". Objective: to eliminate the black spots, the traces of sebum, the cells dead in order to make clear place with the passage of the blade.

2. Proceed by stages

While shaving itself, vigilance is essential. It must redouble if one uses a straight razor in order to avoid the cuts, rednesses and other nuisances. For a perfect shaving, it is necessary to take its time! First of all, that to choose the products which are appropriate best for your skin.

On mechanical shaving side, one has the choice between the traditional shaving soap - which presents itself in the form of block or of cream - and a whole foam battery to be shaved in aerosol, gel or of oils. People presenting skin problems related to shaving will choose products containing antibacterian agents. The purists will choose rather the soap which one coats using a badger - in hairs of badger - in order to soften the hair and to tenderize the skin. A well soaped beard is already with shaven half. Electric side shaving, there exist also lotions in the form of oils or of gel, intended to prepare the skin and the hair. Then, the blade can finally be used.

To work in the code of practice, two passages in opposition are recommended. The first passage is carried out in the direction of the hair, from the legs towards the cheeks. The second is done with grain-hair of the neck towards the chin.

3. Calm the razor burns

Once the operation of shaving is finished, the ritual continues. To tighten the pores, it is advised to rinse its face with cold water before passing the famous block of alum stone which is used to alleviate the razor burns and the feeling of heating. In general, better is worth to avoid the solutions based on alcohol. Disinfecting alcoholic made tough the idea according to which it was necessary that that pricks for well purifying the skin and tightening the pores. However these products tend to dehydrate the skin by creating additional irritations.

It is also necessary to avoid plugging the zone of shaving with toilet water. The perfume causes a photosensitization of the skin to the sun and risk to involve tasks of depigmentation during the summer. On the other hand, it is of primary importance to apply a care to nourish the roadbases of the skin. Because of increasingly calcareous water, the majority of the men have the desiccated skin and too often neglect to hydrate it.
4. Avoid rednesses During shaving, two to three layers of dead cells are eliminated each time. The new cells are precociously exposed. Nonparvenu with maturity, they are dehydrated more quickly than the normal and can cause the appearance of scabs - red plates - one hour after shaving. It is thus urgent to regenerate the skin with an alleviating after-shave which will play at the same time the part of hydrating cream.

Since 1950, the arrival of the first after-shaves half-opened the male door of the cosmetic. Today, the laboratories compete of ingeniousness to allure to most refractory consumers. Tensor, acid credits of fruits, oligoéléments, beneficial vitamins, antioxydant principles made their entry in the care after-shave which is declined in the form of gel, of lotions, fluids or balsams. Each one will be able to choose according to its tastes. Soft skin guarantee..

4. Avoid rednesses

During shaving, two to three layers of dead cells are eliminated each time. The new cells are precociously exposed. Nonparvenu with maturity, they are dehydrated more quickly than the normal and can cause the appearance of scabs - red plates - one hour after shaving. It is thus urgent to regenerate the skin with an alleviating after-shave which will play at the same time the part of hydrating cream.

Since 1950, the arrival of the first after-shaves half-opened the male door of the cosmetic. Today, the laboratories compete of ingeniousness to allure to most refractory consumers. Tensor, acid credits of fruits, oligoéléments, beneficial vitamins, antioxydant principles made their entry in the care after-shave which is declined in the form of gel, of lotions, fluids or balsams. Each one will be able to choose according to its tastes. Soft skin guarantee.

5. Avoid the spots

After shaving, the irritation of the skin can involve the irruption of red spots with a white head of puses called "pseudo folliculites of the beard". The infection of the pilous follicules can be related to the acne (hyperactivity of sébacées glands). But it is often due to bad pushes back hair which is done in skew rather than perpendicularly with the skin.

Black skins are particularly prone to this problem. The curly hair easily tends to be incarnated. Not managing to cross the cutaneous layer, it creates an microphone-ignition. Often the spots reappear chronically at the same places. It is necessary well to disinfect them and sometimes resort to antibiotic gel in order to reabsorb the infection.

The best council remains not to shave of too near.