Thread: Alum block making skin tough...

Originally Posted by Danjoswal

Thanks Harold,

Can't hurt to try it. At least it will stop me feeling like this after every shave:

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Now are any of the yanks going to know who robert llewelyn is? but a nice angular face like that would be easy to shave

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Now are any of the yanks going to know who robert llewelyn is? but a nice angular face like that would be easy to shave

Red Dwarf...great show!

Alum is a great teacher in the beginning...if you get the sting and bite, you've probably used to much pressure. When you give a nice face swipe with the alum, and it's feels cool and soothing...you know you've had a good shave. Love the stuff.

I also find the Thayer's with Witch Hazel and aloe to be a great product as well, good disinfectant and the aloe is very nice for the skin.

Originally Posted by Phrank

Red Dwarf...great show!

Alum is a great teacher in the beginning...if you get the sting and bite, you've probably used to much pressure. When you give a nice face swipe with the alum, and it's feels cool and soothing...you know you've had a good shave. Love the stuff.

I also find the Thayer's with Witch Hazel and aloe to be a great product as well, good disinfectant and the aloe is very nice for the skin.

Oh come on andrew, you are canadian, i said yanks. I am sure you like the distinction

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Oh come on andrew, you are canadian, i said yanks. I am sure you like the distinction

Yes, but we Canucks don't like to be too distinct...it interferes with our plans to further infiltrate the USA...we walk among them, silently, trying not to say, "eh" too much...and when we talk about hockey, we always say, "ice hockey"!

The alum is applied right after shaving and is only left on a very short time and then washed off and then AS or witch hazel applied. if you leave it on it will cause problems.

And it might be your shaving cream.

Originally Posted by Phrank

Yes, but we Canucks don't like to be too distinct...it interferes with our plans to further infiltrate the USA...we walk among them, silently, trying not to say, "eh" too much...and when we talk about hockey, we always say, "ice hockey"!

So you you canadians are sort of like ninjas then? Just dont ask them what anything is aboot, or talk aboot clubbing baby seals and you should be good.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

So you you canadians are sort of like ninjas then? Just dont ask them what anything is aboot, or talk about clubbing baby seals and you should be good.

I hate baby seals....

Originally Posted by Phrank

I hate baby seals....

Well if they arent big enough to keep water out, then what use are they and their large innocent eyes

ok so just to update you guys, i did a shave at the weekend: Hot shower, face scrub, hot towel, lather, hot towel, lather, shave, alum, rinse, moisturise.

I did two things differently to my usual routine: I put a hot towel over my first lather, and I rinsed the alum off with warm water before a cold rinse and my skin stayed soft!

This leads me to think i wasn't rinsing the alum off properly? it would explain why my skin dried out i guess but i can't see me failing to rinse properly every time. Perhaps I had been putting too much alum on and it took the warm rinse to remove it.

Anyway the problem seems to have gone away... for now at least