If you ever wanted to know what styptic tastes like, I can tell you - kind of like crushed up aspirin. How do I know you may ask?? This morning I was shaving with my fatboy (set at 5, I usually set it at 3) and a feather blade and I was getting the old upper lip area. My wife was asking me a question and I was distracted for just a second and I SLICED the tip of my upper lip open, and I mean WIDE open. I could not get this sucker to stop bleeding, I tried alum, I tried New Skin to no avail. So I grabbed my styptic pencil and got it wet and rubbed it on the cut and boy did it sting!! The stytpic didn't stop the bleeding either - and I used SO much of it that I got quite a bit of liquefied styptic right in my mouth. Not a great shave.
The taste of styptic
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Ow! sorry to hear that. do you taste crushed up asprin often?
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Ow! sorry to hear that. do you taste crushed up asprin often?
Don't know why, but when I was a kid thats the way my dad did it, so thats the way i did it. Very tart.
Damn, that had to smart a bit. I can sympathize though, because I get frequent canker sores and I use alum on them all the time. I also use powdered alum as a shaving stypic too, although it definitely is not as effective as a stypic block.
Common practice to crush aspirin because it gets in the system quicker. It's the way I do it too.
Well I get the chills thinking about the taste of cough syrup so i wouldn't be likely to crush up asprin, LOL.
Yum.
this will save you some trouble on crushing your Aspirin 
Yep.. Have since moved on to that..this will save you some trouble on crushing your Aspirin
BC is awesome.....
I tasted my styptic pencil just because I wondered what it would taste like..... Crushed asprin is a pretty good description.... Then,, there is also that weird bitter dry feeling that it gives your tongue....
I wouldn't recommend it as a food additive.....
I tasted my styptic pencil just because I wondered what it would taste like..... Crushed asprin is a pretty good description.... Then,, there is also that weird bitter dry feeling that it gives your tongue....
I wouldn't recommend it as a food additive.....
All right, an opportunity for another poll - Which tastes better, styptic pencil or styptic powder? 
Ahh, yes...some prefer crushed styptic pencils, some prefer aspirin... I, prefer just a whisper of prescription meds that get stuck on my tongue and refuse to go down before they start to dissolve!
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Sliced thus dame area myself when I was learning. Never trusted that HD again...
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