How To Treat Nicks and Cuts After Shaving
Although many have tried to prevent them it is difficult to avoid those nicks and cuts that occur when shaving. One of the major problems many men who shave have is treating those nicks and cuts.
Many men will simply put pieces of toilet paper on the cuts. Others will put a Band-Aid on them and pray the cuts heal quickly.
One of the best things to use on your face for nicks and cuts is the alum block. It is stone that looks like a crystal and is used by rubbing it on your face after moistening it with cool water. As you gentle apply it to your face it will act as an antiseptic. Its properties are of such that it cools and refreshes your skin once applied when you are done shaving. The alum block also works as a skin balm and is good for the bleeding associated with nicks and cuts.
You can also try using a small bit of petroleum jelly to smear the cut. This helps to seal the nicks and provide a way for the formation of blood clots.
You will get good results with a Q-tip soaked in witch hazel and applying it to each nick and cut. As an astringent, witch hazel works by constricting blood vessels thus slowing doing the bleeding so that the blood can clot.
Strangely enough one of the suggestions out there is to use your deodorant. This works because many deodorants contain aluminum chloride or its derivative aluminium chlorohydrate which works as an agent to clot the blood quickly.
One of the simpler treatments is to use an ice cube. The cube will cause the blood vessel to constrict thus the bleeding slows leading to clotting. All you need to do is to slowly rub the cube over the cuts and nicks.
While we are on the topic of skincare, I was doing some stuff online the other day and I came across a homepage covering chemical skin peel. Before I go on I would like to say that this is something I have never even chew over before this moment, but following a little more investigation, I can’t help but want to try it..
