Howdy TwoBirds,
I also don't like the alcohol based aftershaves. Would rather the aftershave work more toward soothing, healing, balancing skin.. I've also scraped the lube strips off the cartridge multi blade razors mostly because I can't stand the goopy sticky stuff on my skin.
My skin is fairly tough, but I like to put more natural, healing, balancing products on it.
One of my friends was having some issues with aftershave. I let him use the toner that I was using as an aftershave, called Answers From Nature Balancing Toner. His problem went away.
Mind you that it may simply have been that he was no longer using that gnarly aftershave anymore.. you know, the kind of aftershave that doubles as bug repellent.. hehehe