Thread: Nmber of Days

Sounds to me like your face needs an extra day or two to heal itself. Since we remove part of the top layer of the ol' epidermis each time we shave, your skin needs to and will regenerate itself. Giving an extra day or two between shaves gives it time to do just that. Since the skin is healed after waiting you'll feel the burn of alum or aftershave less.

It's the same reason why it's recommended to wait until razor burn is completely healed before shaving again.

Now, if you're not getting razor burn, it's possible you can train your skin to shave every day if you do it for a period of time... it's quite amazing how adaptive and resilient the human body is.

No real idea, as I shave every day and have no real problems, normally, with razor burn. Individuals are different so results vary I am sure.

Bob

Originally Posted by crouton976

....it's possible you can train your skin to shave every day if you do it for a period of time... it's quite amazing how adaptive and resilient the human body is.

It's actually a myth that your skin will "toughen up" over time, unless of course we're talking about a span of decades. After the initial break-in period when one starts to use a straight or DE (where the skin gets accustomed to the extra exfolative effects of those types of razors) if your skin can't hack daily shaving that's just reality. Shaving daily will just become an exercise in futility and pain. That's why it's every other day for me, perhaps more since I have a job that doesn't require me to be clean shaven every single day.

Originally Posted by Ryan82

It's actually a myth that your skin will "toughen up" over time, unless of course we're talking about a span of decades. After the initial break-in period when one starts to use a straight or DE (where the skin gets accustomed to the extra exfolative effects of those types of razors) if your skin can't hack daily shaving that's just reality. Shaving daily will just become an exercise in futility and pain. That's why it's every other day for me, perhaps more since I have a job that doesn't require me to be clean shaven every single day.

I am sure I have read this elsewhere, and it kind of makes sense, especially as after shaving we generally use a swathe of products to keep our skin nice. And also as you say, we exfoliate, so any tougher outer layer would be removed, as opposed to a manual labourers hands, which will toughen over time due to layers of skin not being abraded away, if on the other hand that labourer were to use pummice etc to remove all of the toughened skin, they would get blisters everyday.
Well that's just my take on it anyway but I am no beautician.