Quote Originally Posted by JBHoren View Post
Yes.

Sting. (although for me, "sting" implies "hurt", while "burn" does not)
Quote Originally Posted by churley View Post
ok....asking again, so there is no heat or a feeling of warmth......just the sting? and yes I'll remember that sting is a negative word lol.
No... at least, not as a looked-for characteristic effect of an ASS's "burn". We're all unique "snowflakes", and each of us reacts/responds differently to these things. The "burn" we're discussing is momentary... fleeting... (almost) as soon as you feel it, it's gone. Perhaps during the cold of Winter one might feel a "heating" from an ASS; then again, many/most of us prep our beards with hot water and apply hot lather before shaving, then rinse our faces with hot water when we've finished, so... it's about "burn", not "sting", "hurt", or "heat"... at least, not for me.

I could be wrong (I was wrong once before), but I think that anyone who has a problem with alcohol-based ASSes is also someone who has a problem with leather strops, tallow-based soaps/creams, badger/boar brushes, and קורבנות (Biblical Hebrew for "burnt offerings", aka grilled meat)... they're probably the same ones who complain about "hard water" and difficulty lathering.