Shaving cream

Why shave with a shaving cream?

A good shaving cream makes a foam that lasts a long time on the skin, retains water for a long time and does not dry out quickly. It softens the beard hairs and provides a thin protective film on the skin. It protects the skin from the razor . Due to the extra added oils and fats, a shaving cream has an actively moisturizing effect. This ensures more shaving comfort and fewer shaving irritations, such as dry chapped skin.

How do you make shaving foam with shaving cream?

Apply shaving cream with warm water and a shaving brush . Wet your shaving brush with lukewarm water, put a small amount on the shaving brush and lather it on your face. You can also make shaving cream in a shaving bowl. Beard hairs are as hard as copper wires but also absorb water. So take your time. Apply the shaving foam to the face with the shaving brush for at least 1 minute. This causes the beard hairs to become increasingly softer. This makes shaving easier. Applying less pressure with the razor ensures more shaving comfort and less shaving irritation.

Which shaving cream should you buy?

What is the difference between a shaving soap and a shaving cream? Due to various processes, shaving soap has a hard shape. By adding extra oils, a shaving cream has a smooth composition. The main ingredients of shaving cream are glycerin and vegetable or animal oils and fats, such as coconut oil. A good shaving cream produces a full and stable shaving foam and remains moist for a long time. There are scented and unscented shaving materials. Do you have dry or sensitive skin? Then use a neutral and unscented product with extra caring ingredients, such as lanolin or shea butter. Popular scented shaving creams have scents of sandalwood, lavender, menthol, eucalyptus or citrus. More and more men are buying traditionally produced shaving products with special scents.

Which shaving cream should you not buy?

Bad shaving creams are highly alkaline, do not make good shaving foam, the shaving cream dries quickly and has a dehydrating effect. This means that these shaving creams do not sufficiently protect the skin, dry it out, damage it and irritate it. The cheap supermarket and drugstore shaving products in particular are very aggressive. Many men who use these shaving products suffer from dry, tight skin or a burning sensation after shaving. Do you recognize these complaints? Then immediately throw this cheap shaving cream in the trash. In addition, these shaving products can damage and break the bristles of the shaving brush.

Which brands sell shaving cream?

The well-known shaving brands all sell a shaving cream. The Italian Acca Kappa has a nice shaving cream with Almond oil. The Belgian Baume.be sells shaving products especially for sensitive skin. The major classic English shaving brands DR Harris , Taylor of Old Bond Street and Truefitt and Hill have various shaving creams with different scents. The Sandalwood fragrance line from these brands is very popular. Both the English Edwin Jagger and the German Muhle sell shaving creams with Sandalwood, Sea Buckthorn and Aloe Vera. The Sandalwood/Cedarwood guy line from the Scottish Castle Forbes smells like a forest in Autumn. The Rose de Pushkar shaving cream from the French Le Pere Lucien contains pure Rose oil. The American Ariana & Evans and Stirling Soap Co. are known from the so-called sebum shaving creams. The world-famous Italian Proraso sells shaving creams in a tube. Proraso has a shaving product for every man and skin type, such as the super fresh Menthol & Eucalyptus, the white shaving line for sensitive skin, the Sandalwood shaving cream for heavy beard growth and the blue shaving line for dry skin. Proraso also has professional shaving creams: Proraso Single Blade. The German Meissner Tremonia produces very special shaving products using traditional methods. They only use vegetable oils for this. These shaving creams all have very distinctly masculine scents.

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