everyone okay so today I'm going to be
talking about razor burn and razor bumps
how to prevent them and how to with
frequent use of these sort of strategies
how to absolutely stop them from
occurring now I have a beard obviously I
like having a beard but the one thing
that I love is shaving I love the ritual
of the soaking up and the heat and the
steam and the razor
I love the glide across the skin is
beautiful beautiful thing but of course
I just prefer my face with a beard the
majority of the time now I once read
that it was said that razor burn and
razor bumps was actually product burn in
terms of products that contain
irritating ingredients like menthol and
alcohol now I can testify that that is
not the case I'm not saying that those
things don't contribute to problems with
the skin but it is absolutely not the
case with me I have used oils and other
products and still have problems with my
skin that were completely non irritating
so it's actually the razor I think that
contributes to the most amount of
problems that we see now the main thing
that you can do when looking at razor
obviously the sensitivity of your skin
goes a long way there are some people
who don't have very sensitive skin and
these things are really an issue or they
are once in a blue moon so the way I'm
going to describe it is I've got two
razors here this is a Gillette one which
is a five blade razor and this one is
just your standard BIC razor which has
one blade now if we say that this
section of my face that I'm shaving
right and I'm starting here I'm going
down and it takes me two times to get it
clean and of course I'm going to go
against the grain because anybody who's
got to be it or any man out there so
even if you're shaving your legs it's
may still apply but more particularly to
the male side of things if you are if
you don't go against the grain you've
got stubble back within like two hours
if I don't go against the grain I have
got that five o'clock shadow really
really quickly so going against the
grain is often very necessary and we all
here
through borrowed but sometimes it's
necessary to get that close shave so
anyway let's say it takes us two times
to go down and two times to go up we
have passed a single bit blade over the
skin a total of four times okay with a
single blade now say we're doing the
same thing but with a Mac five a five
bladed one takes us two times to go down
two times the go up we have now abraded
the skin 20 times so the fact that that
razor has five blades and the other one
has one we are then going to see a
massive difference in how much we are
braiding the skin and that will cause
much much more irritation to the skin
now if you have sensitive skin you're
better off starting with a one blade and
you can try and work up if you don't
have sensitive skin start with a two and
again work up but remember how many
times were passing the blade over our
skin over our legs under our arms is
going to contribute to razor bone
without a date so the less times you
have to go over the area the better the
best way to do it when going down even
if it's this as I'm using my face but
you can use your legs or whatever you'll
pull the skin taut and go down and then
pull the skin in the opposite direction
and go up this way you can get a closer
shave by only doing two passes hopefully
so even if you're using the five plate
that's just ten passes rather than the
standard twenty the other thing to think
about is the products that you're going
to use on your skin now this is the way
I do it I hate the foaming products
because they're ridiculous there's no
need to have all that phone what I do is
get some oil now I quite like using
almond oil which you can get in really
big containers it's not that expensive
and I like to rub that all over my face
and use that as a shaving oil you can
also use olive oil coconut oil something
that's non-irritating another thing I
like to do is get a standard generic
from like one of the beauty stores a
massive standard generic conditioner and
I just pump back into my hand and rub
that into my beer or sometimes most of
time I put a couple of pumps of the
conditioner and then the oil
and combine the two this helps the razor
to glide over the skin it's incredibly
cheap way of doing it because you can
get liters of this stuff for like ten
pounds so it's great you can just put
the oil in you've got the most perfect
shape because it's so emollient and so
greasy that you can actually see where
you're cutting which with the foam and
all those kind of foaming agents it's
not that great the other thing after
you've shaved now this is there are
products out there like ten skin which
can absolutely 100% work to prevent
razor bumps and razor burn and if you've
got them they can absolutely get rid of
them the main problem with them is that
they contain alcohol and that can be
irritating to the skin so there's a
couple of ways you can do it you can use
a pH a product called better hydroxy
acids these things if used every single
day can stop absolutely stop razor burn
and razor bumps they're salicylic acid
so if you're sensitive to aspirin that
may be an issue for you but probably if
you're not you're going to get great
results with it the other thing you can
do is to get a bottled water just an
empty bottled water and take some
dissolvable aspirin the kind you popped
in and they dissolve and they dissipate
into the water just shake it up and if
you've got dry skin put in a little bit
Listerine you can get that in the
chemist who cares shake it up and apply
this to the skin because the aspirin has
dissolved you've got the kind of
anti-inflammatory benefits of the
aspirin without home to spend a huge
amount of money on the ten skin plus you
haven't got the alcohol in it which is
irritating but ten skin does work on the
best route to go down is be a chaise
links to good products here are in the
description bar or of course you can
make your own which is just as good but
these tips the shaving oil the
conditioner going with the grain and
against the grain by pulling the skin in
different directions and starting with a
one blade or a two blade and then
working your way up remember the more
passes the more trouble we're going to
cause this is how to prevent a razor
burn and razor bumps and thankfully when
I do shave now which I still like to do
once in a while I don't have any of the
issues that I used to get with these
problems and again ten skin VHS can
absolutely stop and prevent ingrown
hairs as well which is wonderful thanks
for watching and I see you next time