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Top Tips for Shaving

Shaving can be very sore – the following tips should make wet shaving a more pleasurable and effective experience:

• Always use a sharp razor. As a razor is used it gets blunt and then catches on your skin causing the cuts and sore rash.

• Wet the hair in warm water for three minutes before shaving (Clean your teeth while you are waiting – see section on Teeth). The water soaks into each hair causing it to swell and making it much easier to cut. This should save you a fortune in razors and reduce the irritating rash.

• Shaving in the bath or shower is excellent – just remember to wait until the end so that the hair can absorb the moisture.

• Go with the grain – you don’t get such a close shave but you get less cuts.

• Try to use less strokes over the same area of skin. Each stroke can remove a layer of skin so the fewer the better.

• Never share razors. HIV can be transmitted from one person to another in the blood that may be left on a razor.

• Men – Aftershave smells great but it is not the best thing for your skin. Moisturise instead … this won’t make you any less a man!

• Men – Try to enjoy shaving and don’t forget to wipe off all the foam from your ears!

Your skin is one of the most amazing organs in your body so look after it when you shave.

For a step-by-step guide to shaving visit the BBC page linked below.

If you experience skin irritation whilst shaving or once you’re done, check out the page linked below at Teens First for Health.

Links and contact details

Name: Children / Teens First for Health – by Great Ormond Street Hospital
Web: Teens First for Health – Shaving Irritation page
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Info: Children First for Health is an award winning health and hospital information website for teenagers, children and parents. The site is run bun by Great Ormond Street Hospital, they provide thousands of clinically approved pages of age-appropriate content and advice.

Name: BBC – Info page on shaving for young men
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BBC – Info page on shaving for young men
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