No, not your soap mug... that would be kinda silly; it has no skin!
Your other mug. Just grab your shaving brush, and face lather. That'll exfol....
Whoa there, partner. Hold the phone. I read in multiple places on B & B daily that face lathering with a brush exfoliates.
So to clear up this wide held myth, I'm gonna give you a peek inside one of my doctor appointments, circa 2008.
I have Seborrheic dermatitis. I'm at the dermatologist for a yearly visit to get my yearly medication refills to treat it. It also happens to be shortly (like, a month) after I started traditional wet shaving again.
Doc: "Wow, you have some really nasty razor burn going on."
Me: Goes into long speech about wet shaving. I even explain how careful I am to exfoliate daily with my shaving brush.
Doc, while falling off the chair, laughing: "OK, let's get a few things straight," he says while sniffing from his laughter. "You see that razor burn on your neck, right here? Well, razor burn is exfoliation taken too far. You see, there are two things that a razor blade will do: 1. cut hair 2. Exfoliate your skin. In fact, in just one pass your razor blade will exfoliate your skin as much as needs be, and will do more exfoliation in that one pass than you'd get from a hundred years of rubbing a soft wet badger on your face. You'd need to add some sort of abrasive, like pumice powder, to ever get your shaving brush to do any meaningful exfoliation. Sure, if you have dry skin, you might see some of that removed by your brush, but that in no means is true exfoliation. You are doing that part with the blade itself. And if you're using a DE or a straight razor to shave with, you are doing more exfoliation than you really need, not that that's necessarily a *bad* thing. The only time it becomes a bad thing is when you exfoliate to the point of redness and irritation, also known as "razor burn"."
So gents, just to clear things up...
Your shaving brush: Great at applying shaving cream or soap. Not at all useful for exfoliation.
Your shaving blade of choice: Great for removing hair and also does all the exfoliation your skin needs in the very first pass of your shave.
"Razor Burn": caused by over exfoliation of the skin, usually by running a razor over the skin too many times, but can also be caused by other factors such as: too aggressive of a razor, too sharp of a blade, too dull of a blade, too much pressure, a combination of two or more of the previous things, and the position of the Sun and Venus.
So use that brush on your mug to spread that soap and cream to heart's delight. But please keep in mind that you aren't doing any actual exfoliation in the process; your normal shave takes care of that part for you.
Your other mug. Just grab your shaving brush, and face lather. That'll exfol....
Whoa there, partner. Hold the phone. I read in multiple places on B & B daily that face lathering with a brush exfoliates.
So to clear up this wide held myth, I'm gonna give you a peek inside one of my doctor appointments, circa 2008.
I have Seborrheic dermatitis. I'm at the dermatologist for a yearly visit to get my yearly medication refills to treat it. It also happens to be shortly (like, a month) after I started traditional wet shaving again.
Doc: "Wow, you have some really nasty razor burn going on."
Me: Goes into long speech about wet shaving. I even explain how careful I am to exfoliate daily with my shaving brush.
Doc, while falling off the chair, laughing: "OK, let's get a few things straight," he says while sniffing from his laughter. "You see that razor burn on your neck, right here? Well, razor burn is exfoliation taken too far. You see, there are two things that a razor blade will do: 1. cut hair 2. Exfoliate your skin. In fact, in just one pass your razor blade will exfoliate your skin as much as needs be, and will do more exfoliation in that one pass than you'd get from a hundred years of rubbing a soft wet badger on your face. You'd need to add some sort of abrasive, like pumice powder, to ever get your shaving brush to do any meaningful exfoliation. Sure, if you have dry skin, you might see some of that removed by your brush, but that in no means is true exfoliation. You are doing that part with the blade itself. And if you're using a DE or a straight razor to shave with, you are doing more exfoliation than you really need, not that that's necessarily a *bad* thing. The only time it becomes a bad thing is when you exfoliate to the point of redness and irritation, also known as "razor burn"."
So gents, just to clear things up...
Your shaving brush: Great at applying shaving cream or soap. Not at all useful for exfoliation.
Your shaving blade of choice: Great for removing hair and also does all the exfoliation your skin needs in the very first pass of your shave.
"Razor Burn": caused by over exfoliation of the skin, usually by running a razor over the skin too many times, but can also be caused by other factors such as: too aggressive of a razor, too sharp of a blade, too dull of a blade, too much pressure, a combination of two or more of the previous things, and the position of the Sun and Venus.
So use that brush on your mug to spread that soap and cream to heart's delight. But please keep in mind that you aren't doing any actual exfoliation in the process; your normal shave takes care of that part for you.
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