Men's Grooming Tip - One Shaving Change That Will Improve Your Daily Shave - Male Grooming
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Hi!
I'm Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men Real Style.
Today, I'm going to give you one simple tip that you can take to start improving your
daily shave immediately.
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So what is this quick tip?
The quick tip is to simply upgrade this.
I don't know about you, guys, but for most of my adult life, I have used some type of
canned shaving cream to shave.
I think the story I was telling my wife as to how I learned to shave, basically I was
15 years old.
I was at a boarding school.
It was actually a seminary in San Antonio, St. Anthony's High School Seminary, and I
had one of the priests there come up to me and just say, "Antonio, you need to start
shaving."
And so, I didn’t know exactly what to do.
I asked a couple of the guys and they said, "Hey, get a razor, get some shaving cream."
So I walked to the local store and looked through.
I grabbed a can of shaving cream and I grabbed a disposable razor.
I haven't really received any advice on it since.
Everything I've learned, I've had to pretty much learn for myself, but now there's tons
of great information out there, most of it free.
I've formed a friendship recently with a gentleman down in Texas known as Mantic59.
I link to his website.
He's on one of my favorite other YouTube guys down below, but in any case, he's got a great
blog called the Sharpologist.
I met Mark in Milwaukee.
He was up giving a talk and one of the things that he said is to stop using anything that
basically propels lotion out.
So you've seen it, you put it out there.
This stuff shoots out, well, for it to propel the shaving cream out.
He was explaining how it takes a number of different -- basically, they've got to put
a lot of chemicals, alcohols, propellants, things that shouldn't be on your skin to get
it to actually do that, to preserve it.
And what you should look to do is to upgrade to something more like a shaving lotion, something
whose goal is solely to lubricate, not to be propelled or to smell a certain way.
So with that and knowing that, I recently upgraded to Jack Black and they've got this
great Beard Lube Conditioning Shave.
I had this sample sent to me and since then, I've become a convert because I can tell you
this one simple upgrade -- I haven't changed my razor.
I haven't changed the way I shave.
I haven't changed really anything else in my system of shaving except I've upgraded
the lotion.
And yes, this is going to cost three to four times as much, but then again, this one's
three ounces.
I think you can get much bigger containers of this, but what you're looking at here,
guys, is something that's going to allow the razor when it moves along your skin to actually
glide and simply cut the hair off instead of with the shaving cream, especially anything
again that's being propelled.
It is just not doing as great of a job as something that is designed -- its whole purpose
is designed to lubricate the razor as it's moving across your skin versus these.
Well, there are more than half the ingredients in this.
Unfortunately, they're just not there to lubricate.
They did that for the smell, for the look.
So that one simple tip, that one simple upgrade, yes, it's going to cost you four to five bucks
more perhaps a month every two months, but you're going to get a much better shave.
I can tell you that I'm having less razor burn and it just feels better.
I like the smell better.
Definitely look for the upgrade.
Jack Black is the one that I'm most familiar with.
I'll link you guys down below to Mantic59, to his channel.
He goes over a lot more and is more of an expert.
I'm hoping that this is a continued series.
My idea is to bring you one tip so that every couple of weeks, you can change one part of
your shaving routine so that at the end of the year, you've got an optimized shaving
system and you're having less nicks, you're feeling better, you're getting a better shave.
Shaving and grooming is a huge part of men's style, so I'm going to touch on that stuff.
I'm not going to go deep into it, but let me know what you think in the comments.
I look forward to hearing from you guys.
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Take care.
Bye-bye.