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Beard Mapping+ Cold Water Shave + Shea Butter = DFS!

I had been having some irritation issues over the last few weeks especially on the neck and I am relatively new to DE shaving.
After much research and advice found here, this combination the last few times has been like heaven!!

The beard mapping has really helped the irritation especially on the neck. I only do 2 passes WTG and XTG that's it.
This is such a big step in understanding how to shave your face and neck,

The cold water shave has been great. I don't think you even notice it while you are shaving. I am focused so much on angle and pressure you forget that the face and the water are cold. I find the blade glides just as easily as a hot shave. My face and neck are sure thanking me as there is not one spot of red irritation to be found afterward.

The shea butter is a recent addition and it really calms and soothes your skin. It's almost like your neck color if red or pink at all goes back to it's natural color about and hour after applying. It is really good stuff.

My routine with EJ DE89L with Astra SP blade
- Walmart $1.25 lather bowl (scored) and omega boar brush soaking in cold water in sink
- Warm shower, wash face and neck in shower. Cold water face rinse right before exiting.
- Apply preraso pre-shave white jar to cold face while still damp
- Prep lather with cold brush - proraso soap (white/sensitive skin)
- Lather up, don't even notice that lather is cold as my face is also cold but feels nice and tight
- 1st pass WTG based on beard mapping
- splash face off with cold water and lather again and proraso pre shave again
- 2nd pass XTG based on bead mapping, and some touch ups
- warm not hot face rinse to wash the excess soap off followed by another final cold water splash
- Apply Thayers WH w/cucumber extract
- Clean up area
- Apply unrefined shea butter all over neck, chin and cheeks

Skin will feel so soft and zero irritation.
YMMV but I find this routine very refreshing, and you still must pay attention to angle and pressure!

Hope this helps someone!!!

thanks
Joe
 
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Thanks for the run-down, Joe. This routine is almost exactly what I have settled on in the past week, too, and it's been working out great for me as well. I've stopped trying to do an ATG pass on the neck, as it never seems to go well, and the XTG pass makes makes my skin smooth enough for my satisfaction. Also, I'm loving the cold water shave. I don't find the cold water uncomfortable at all. Do you reapply lather a third time for the touch-up, or just go over the rough patches with the residual lather from the 2nd pass? I sometimes wipe a little lather off the shave brush and apply to the rough areas by hand prior to touch-up. Also, I've never tried shea butter, although I understand some B&B'ers like it. Do you find that it makes your face greasy at all?
 
For the touch ups at the end of the second pass, I just grab some off the brush or from the bowl and hand apply it.

As for the shea butter, it is non-comedogenic and does not clog pores. I did not find it oily or greasy, you have to go light on it as a little goes a ling way.
I just notice a softness with it and a decrease in any redness that may be there.

Thanks for the run-down, Joe. This routine is almost exactly what I have settled on in the past week, too, and it's been working out great for me as well. I've stopped trying to do an ATG pass on the neck, as it never seems to go well, and the XTG pass makes makes my skin smooth enough for my satisfaction. Also, I'm loving the cold water shave. I don't find the cold water uncomfortable at all. Do you reapply lather a third time for the touch-up, or just go over the rough patches with the residual lather from the 2nd pass? I sometimes wipe a little lather off the shave brush and apply to the rough areas by hand prior to touch-up. Also, I've never tried shea butter, although I understand some B&B'ers like it. Do you find that it makes your face greasy at all?
 
Nice work!
Beard Mapping is so very important to understanding the best way to get those whiskers off.
Congrats to a job well done.
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