look at post 16 - dated 03-04-2011, it was the post immediately before your one :)
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Oops. Red ears now. Forgot was reading old threads. Ignore me please. Will go hide my head in the sand. Or a beer.
Drowning in beer. A good way to go.
Or cows milk, or fish, or cat, or horse. Am a quite allergic person.
And a doctor lived down the road when my mother gave me the first bottle of cows milk. Anyphilactic shock. Wouldn't kill me nowadays, more bad intolerance. Fish might if i didn't find antihistamine before my throat closed. But cats and horses more like extreme hay fever, is the hair. So yes if animal or few hundred years ago would be long gone.
I just compared my old bottle of Nivea Sensitive Skin Post Shave Balm to the new formulation. The new formulation say Cooling Post Shave Balm, No Drying Alcohol. The new version causes a burning sensation and doesn't work for me. So if your reading this (old new post from four years ago.) that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
If the problem is a burning sensation when putting on a balm after the shave, using alum is probably not the way to go.
Edit:
Oops; did they lemming thing and followed others over the cliff into the abyss on this long-dead thread.
Explains also the OP's problem with Nivea balm: this stuff must be old now. :o
B.
Not wanting to hijack the thread,
I don't use the balm, but I've picked up the Nivea shaving cream in local stores and must say I'm pleasantly surprised by it.
I use it generously, but it's so damn cheap I don't worry about it and use good amounts of cream.
Very slick, lathers well for me and does a good job hydrating my skin. It's very cheap and it's seeing more use than any other cream or soap I own, incl. the higher end ones, plus I also dig it's scent.
Overall, for that price and performance, you can't go wrong. I've been using mine exclusively for some time now and greatly enjoy it.
It's been a very long time since I used my styptic pencil but I believe you are supposed to wet the end before using it. Looking at the box my styptic pencil came on confirmed this. The instructions read " wet and pass onto the interested area. If anything else fails read the instructions! :-)