Thread: Help this itching madness!!!

Just curious that it seems to be happening with so many products. Is there anything common to all your shaves that might be getting overlooked like pre shave routine? Or possibly shower gel (notorious for causing problems)

Try shaving with something simple like just olive oil and see what you happens.

As an aftershave, try Thayer's witch hazel without alcohol.

I see you joined the forum back in 2009. Just wondering how long you've had this problem? Is it very recent? Personally, I'd try a very basic shave. Just use a brush and one soap/cream and shave. No pre shave or after shave products at all. Nothing. See if you're still irritated. If you are, keep it basic again but with a different soap/cream. Keep the number of variables low. Hope you manage to find the culprit. Must be very frustrating. Good luck.

Originally Posted by Utopian

Try shaving with something simple like just olive oil and see what you happens.

As an aftershave, try Thayer's witch hazel without alcohol.

This is probably the best advice.

Get your shave as simple as possible and then build complexity.

Originally Posted by Utopian

Try shaving with something simple like just olive oil and see what you happens.

As an aftershave, try Thayer's witch hazel without alcohol.

+1 on the olive oil. Try rubbing a little in after your shave too. You may also be shaving too close. Have you tried just one WTG pass to see if there's any improvement?

Even if you switched soaps, some ingredients in both could be causing this.

For example, sweet almond seems to be in a lot of popular soaps and creams. Guess what I am allergic to! So if I switch from one to another soap that has sweet almond, I am still going to break out. I have to be careful and look at the ingredients of all of the products I use.

Maybe that is the case with you too?