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You seem to be expanding on the post you made earlier #33. I responded with post #38. This post doesn't address anything that I stated in post #38.Edit: oops, I realized I replied to the wrong comment. I meant to reply to the other one about being gentlemanly.
I told myself that I wasn’t going to reply anymore to this thread, but yet here I am again because I wanted to respond to this comment. I can’t speak for anyone else’s motives to their replies, but I can say that I tried to be respectful during our differences of opinion. Others may have grown frustrated with the appearance that you would not accept their advice.
This is my last attempt to explain how you can’t get your post-shave skin to heal faster. Your skin has many layers. On average, your body will completely renew all the skin layers over 28 days. This is normal body maintenance. New skin cells are generated through cell division of stem cells. When you shave, you are removing the top skin layers. Your body will replace new skin cells from the bottom, pushing other skin cells up. This is the only way to recover after shaving—grow new cells. There is literally nothing you can do to speed up your body’s natural rate of skin cell division. Things can slow it down, like infection and poor nutrition, but you can’t use a super lotion or eat a magic food to make it go faster. In fact, if cell division becomes too fast, this may be cancer or a precursor to it.
Post-shave routines matter. They can prevent infection, lower inflammation, and mask symptoms, but they don’t make new skin cells or make skin cells divide faster. Poor post-shave can slow it down if you increase inflammation and do not prevent infection.
That’s how this works. The only way to heal faster is to do less damage to start with and remove fewer layers of skin. You must change something about your shave routine because there isn’t a magic product.
However, if you absolutely insist on shaving the same and want an occasionally used product that makes you feel better in between shaves and masks the irritation, you could try hydrocortisone cream. Take caution that it may have side effects and should not be used long term unless directed by a doctor or dermatologist because it may cause skin atrophy (thinning).
Re: Advice - Is there somewhere in B&B's guidelines that I am required to accept someone's advice on here? Additionally, as I have stated multiple times earlier, I am not necessarily looking for advice. I am looking to hear about people's experiences and accomplishments with a certain element of shaving and have a discussion on that. I don't understand why a few of you are frustrated with the fact that I disagree with you as I have provided you the reasons why in a respectful manner. The continuance of reiterating your same points and opinion when it doesn't address my points is not a discussion nor does it advance the conversation.