Overlooking the obvious… the light comes on

I am heavy handed, a known. Got some great advice last week here. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." Thanks Razorfeld. Along with this and a ton of other great advice, thanks everyone, I was still having trouble with razor burn after a year. I decided to analyze my whole process from pre-shave to post-shave but yet again. I spent a career doing very dirty work and became accustom to scrubbing the piss outta myself to get clean again. I do a nice long hot shower often emptying the hot water tank and start scrubbing at top of my bald head then down to the bottom of my feet. I start with hair shampooing & rinse then I use a facial/scrub/defoliant & rinse and then continuing with full body scrub then rinse then dry and start shave routine.

OMG!! - - - - DING! DING! - - - - Ding! Ding!

I cannot believe I over looked the face scrubbing part. :aargh:

I stopped that and sure enough no burn now after three shaves. I even feel like trying to shave again the next day.
I still have a long ways to go yet but loving every minute and it just keeps getting better. :y

Glad you figured it out, NO pain No gain right LOL

It hurts when I do this Doc. "Stop doing that".

jmercer: I did the same thing at first, now I only use Noxzema to wash my face and nothing else. My face never felt so good.

+1 on the Noxzema, bought a tub after reading about it on here, not a fan of the scent (medicinal, and that's being kind!!) but have to say leaves my face feeling great. Even SWMBO has noticed so it must be good!

I used to use a facial scrub weekly when I still used cartridge razors. Carried the habit with me when I went DE and suffered periodic irritation. Binned the scrub and used milder products to wash my face and less irritation occurred. From there, I was able to correct pressure issues that caused either brush burn or razor burn.

+1 on Noxzema. Neutrogena bars work well for me also. But at the top of the charts for my skin is Musgo Real GLO.

For a follow up.

I've been a long time user of Nivea Creme and their after shave balm so in tune there, thanking you and, have gone back to them as I learn straights.

With my heavy handed-ness my new creed now is "Shave the Lather". It is working for me finally argh. Got a ways to go though with my knarly old weathered face but I'm over the major burn from heavy handedness and "pre-defoiled face". Har!

I'd love to see more of the pro straight users shave their lips and chin. :w

Inquiring minds need to know. :hmmm:

Sometimes it's the simplest of things.

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Originally Posted by bluesman7

It hurts when I do this Doc. "Stop doing that".

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Hey doc, every time I drink my coffee I get a sharp pain in my eye.

Doc: Did you take the spoon out of the cup?

:aargh:

Lips and chin = slow and easy!
I've got a slight depression on the bottom of my chin, always a problem. Somebody said "choose your battles carefully", sometimes I'll just leave it alone. "If it ain't broke, don't cut it"!