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(More customer reviews)This review is for people who use a wet/dry electric shaver in the shower.
Let me start off by saying that I love Neutrogena products and I use them exclusively in my house. And even though I have sensitive skin, this product left me unimpressed. Over the course of a few years, and in an effort to find a solution to razor burn and ingrown hairs, I discovered a system that works extremely well using the original Neutrogena Shave Cream. Just so you are aware of how I used this shave cream, let me describe my wet shaving procedure:
1. Get in the shower and wet my face with warm water and wash it with soap.
2. After washing my entire body, I shave last, so that the heat and steam has opened up all my pores and my facial hair is soft.
3. Apply Neutrogena Men Skin Clearing Shave Cream by hand.
4. Douse Philips Norelco 8020X Cool Skin Moisturizing Shaver with warm water and shave normally; rinse shaver when done.
5. Exit the shower and apply Neutrogena Men Triple Protect Face Lotion, SPF 20 or Neutrogena Men Razor Defense, Face Lotion. I use the SPF lotion if I'm applying it in the morning, or I'll use the non-SPF lotion if applying it at night. It's important that you do this as soon as you dry off your face because you want to apply it while your pores are still open.
When I swapped out my old Neutrogena Shave Cream with their new sensitive formula cream, I discovered that the shave cream did not stay on my face long enough to keep it lubricated for an electric wet shave. I would get about halfway through before the razor would stop gliding over my face. The shave cream is very much like a liquid, so it runs off your face fairly quickly, especially when it's really wet. It has the consistency of shampoo, if that gives you any idea of what it's like. Their non-sensitive shave cream does not run at all, it's like regular lotion; once you put it on, it stays put. Also, because the sensitive cream is more like a liquid, you'll find that you need to use more, much more, than their non-sensitive cream, so the price goes up significantly in that regard. It does have a more slippery feel to it when compared to their original formula.
There is one thing I simply LOVE about this shaving cream, and that's the smell, it's fantastic and very manly. If Spike TV were to make a shaving cream, this would be it. However, if it doesn't stay on my face long enough to finish a shave, then the amazing smell does me no good. Of course, the product isn't completely ineffective either. For the short time it did stay on my face, it worked well, so for my use, 2 stars is apropos.
Something else I noticed is that the new sensitive formula has done away with the ingredient, Salicylic Acid. Being that every now and then I'll get a pimple, that's all the more reason to stick with the old formula which still has it.
For those of you that have sensitive skin, let me recommend that you try shaving in the shower (either electric or regular). Most people don't realize that the process of shaving is actually quite traumatic to your face. Wet shaving in the shower significantly reduces that trauma, and you also reduce blade wear on your razor by about 60% in comparison. This is due to the hair being much softer because of the warm water and steam. When you combine all these factors together, razor burn and ingrown hairs are significantly reduced for most people.
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