Good Men's Electric Razsor...

My husband has really sensitive skin, and he is unable to use electric razors.. he has tried them in the past and it always made him break out (it was like pulling the hair out). So, that being said, he now uses Gillette Power Fusion - it has five blades, and it since it takes a battery, it is also slightly electric. Hope that makes sense. He absolutely loves it, though. They are pretty expensive, but they last about three times longer than others. He also uses Nivea shaving lotion afterwards, it's for really sensitive skin. Hope that helps.

My husband has sensitive skin too. Just tell him to stick too it for a week or so and it will get better. It doesn't matter the brand, his skin just has to get used to it.

ALSO,have him use the "Letric Shave" I think it is called, it is a preshave stuff, this helps too.

My father and my husband both have very sensitive skin. Both are blond and pale. My father can only use a blade as the electric razors cause problems..he often has hair turn and become ingrown. My husband uses an electric razor and uses only a remington as his skin is very sensitive. Have him try what works..and he'll probably have to stay with it.

Hi R.,

My husband has the same problem, and has been using straight edged razors for years. He decided he wanted to try an electric razor again, so I asked his 6 brothers for help. One of his brothers liked his razor so much, he bought 2 of them! It's the Remington R-9170 Titanium Microflex Ultra shaver. It's about $100 new, but I found mine on Amazon for $50 (including $10 of shipping)!! My husband used it and said it made it neck hurt, but he said that's to be expected for at least 2 weeks after starting to use a new electric razor. So the razor you got your husband could actually be just fine, he just needs to get used to it. His skin should handle it better in a couple of week. Good luck!

R.-
My husband and son both use hand razors. A regular razor that you buy in a 10-pack is different from a womens razor. The regular one has a criss-cross shape where the hairs get stick more easily so it stops working faster. The women razor just has several straight razors and tends to be sharper, work better and last longer. My son has always prefered this to any electric razor. You might want to try this. P.

Good question. My husband has very sensitive skin as well and is not able to use electric razors at all. In fact, the only razor that does not make his skin break out is the Mach 3. Given our experience, I don't think a more expensive electric razor will solve your problem. Good luck though!

I don't know a lot about electric razors (my husband uses a Norelco Quadra Action). He could try scrubbing his face with a washcloth before he shaves. My husband has never tried it, however, I exfoliate my legs before I shave to prevent razor burn and to get a closer shave, and it works fabulously!

My husband had trouble with his neck breaking out until I purchased a Norelco razor that was able to be used with a topical lubricant cream. He also kept up a daily regiment since a weekend beard could cause troubles on Monday morning.

It really depends on what you mean by break out. If you mean razor burn - yes many men have that until their skin gets used to being shaved with electric vs the shaving cream w/shaver. Get some lotions and it should get better each time he tries it but if he doesn't like it after a couple weeks it just isn't for him. If it is ingrown hairs then the closer shave from the electric is causing that and I think that exfoliating or using products before shaving and in between shaves will help but I know more people that just can't use it because of that.

I don't know all that much about electric razors, but we have sensitive skin in our family too and I can relate to the 'horrible time shaving' episodes. Is he putting anything else on his skin, before or after he uses the razor? Maybe he's pressing too hard? We find they never gave a shave as close as a razor, regardless of what the ads claim, so pressing harder just irritates the skin.

For my husband, he doesn't shave often, but when he does, he found that one of those three blade razors work well, and he only uses one of two kinds of soap lathered up with a shaving brush. I'm quite proud to say that I make one of those soaps and it's made with colloidal oatmeal, so the proteins make the razor slip really well, and there is no fragrance added because chemicals used to make fragrances can be very very irritating for people like us. I didn't originally formulate the soap to be a shaving soap, but we discovered by accident that it works even better than the stuff he was buying at The Body Shop.

Something I've been using on my skin after shaving my legs or giving myself a facial is plain old rice bran oil, straight from the bottle I buy at the grocery store. It had lots of vitamin E in it and it's a very light, non-clogging oil. They've been using like that in Asia for generations. Maybe this can help your husband's skin too. It's a nice light moisturiser with no odour and I've been recommending it to the guys who buy my olive oil-colloidal oatmeal shaving soap.

Good luck and let me know how he gets on.

C.

My hubby likes his Braun rasor. It has blades rather than the rotating, 3 head things. That seems to help as well.

~D.