Alcohol helps prevent razor burn? Then why in the world does Aqua Velva turn my face into a red, bumpy, dotted landscape? The burn I can deal with, but the redness that lasts until noon just doesn't cut it for me.
What specifically does this mean? Broken in to a specific shaving implement?
Sorry to hijack, but I'm in the same boat as the OP. Interesting that you mention this. I have always gotten razor burn on my throat no matter what I shave with. I started when I was 13 with an electric, and I got razor burn. 2 years ago I moved to cartridge razors and the razor burn was less, but still there. I just recently moved to DE razors (eventually to a str8), and get bad razor burn.
The one thing that is constant with me is that I have to shave ATG on my neck. The whiskers on my neck (each side of my adam's apple) grow at an odd angle, and there is a lot of curve there with not much room for a flat shaving surface. If I shave with the grain of the whiskers, then they don't get cut well at all. I have to shave against the grain to get any smoothness at all in that area, in several different directions (it's almost like I have a cowlick on my neck!!:rant:), and that is where my worst razor burn is. Is it the ATG shaving that is causing it?
Oh. I have wire whiskers and sensitive skin, too.