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Skin care for men? Do not be ridiculous!

For many years, skin care has been the exclusive preserve of the ladies. After all, men don’t need it, do they?

When I came down to breakfast the other day, my wife fondly caressed my cheek.

‘Your skin is so soft!’ she said she almost wonderfully. ‘I really don’t know how you handle it!’

Now my wife is a darling, darling woman, but she thinks that smooth skin can only be achieved by using amounts of night cream, day cream, wrinkle cream (not that she has any anyway!), protein cream, and just about any other cream cosmetic companies can think of.

She, like many other ladies, is convinced that many men have made a pact with the Prince of Darkness in exchange for facial skin that is not only smooth but free of blemishes and blemishes. I’ll probably get dialed in for use as a bridge support padding or receive a nice pair of League concrete overshoes for overly scratchy chins for revealing the truth, but I can’t help myself anymore: guys really do use skin care products!

There. I said it What a relief to finally ‘come out of the closet’ (on men’s skin, of course). What’s different between facial skin care for men and facial skin care for women is that men don’t pay as much for theirs, and that’s because men do something to their faces every day that women never do. they shave

Now I know that women shave their legs and sometimes other unmentionable parts. All men know it. But they don’t do it every day. So why does that make a difference?

Oh well, the cat is out of the bag now, so I can tell you everything too. The act of shaving, when done daily, is an excellent exfoliant. A razor not only removes the stubble from the average man’s chin and cheeks, but also removes some of the old skin cells. This tends to leave our homemade pans soft and smooth, especially if you use (as an increasing number of men today do) a straight razor.

That’s why, when we’re freshly planned, your average man’s facial skin is as smooth as a woman’s who’s had enough cream to make a raspberry pavlova. The only problem is that it doesn’t last. Hence the trend in recent years for an increasing number of guys to reach for the bottle.

The men’s skincare bottle, that is. I’m not convinced I’m the first to have said this truth about the original method of skin care for men, shaving, and no doubt the intelligence task force of cosmetic companies has been watching over the years. So what do we have now? You have it in one: cream for men.

Oh, they don’t call it ‘cream’. Too feminine. It’s called a ‘rejuvenating face cream’ or something equally sly – it just wouldn’t do to call it a ‘day cream’ or ‘fresh night cream’, would it? It is done like this. After us men have carefully eradicated all traces of beard, in the most manly way with terrifyingly sharp steel, we are smiled from a website by an incredible hunk with biceps as big as footballs and a six-pack made of very large ball bearings suggesting that it would be a good idea: moisturize our skin!

And you know what is the worst of all this? It works. Guess what I got for Christmas last year? Worse yet, guess what I bought recently? The resistance, as has been said, was useless.

The steamroller of male skincare culture is gaining momentum. We poor men, hapless victims of our own primitive but effective method of skin care, have been sucked into forces we can barely comprehend. What happened to the old days when the only perfume men wore was good honest sweat and we all changed our socks once a week, even if they were reasonably free of pong? Back when briefs were the stuff of boxers and aftershave was considered only suitable for wearing on a hot date?

I don’t know about you, but I thank my lucky stars that they are firmly in the past! Now, where’s my wrinkle-busting anti-aging male protein emollient?