Our position is that alcohol-based bracing aftershaves should have gone out with Joe McCarthy. They inflame the skin you’ve just abraded by shaving and worse, dry it out mercilessly, which will age it faster than &*%$ moves through a goose. They are bad. But many of us enjoy the refreshing feeling that a bracing after-shave imparts, in much the same way that naughty sex can be quite diverting. So we do offer this Cooling Aftershave Gel (and for deeper, more penetrating moisturizing, our Replenishing Aftershave, which you can see below). The naughty sex you have to find on your own.
What sets this cooling aftershave apart is that it’s composed mostly (75%) of aloe, the healing, moisturizing wonderplant, and the bracing, cooling effect is naturally derived from the oil of peppermint in our signature essential oil blend. The natural witch hazel hydrosol in the formulation is another of nature’s best skin healers and soothers, while the alcohol, present at less than 1 part per hundred, is there to help sterilize any nick you might have self-inflicted. So if you’re going to go the bracing route, do it in a way that’s kind to your face. You and it are going to be together for a while.
Since we created this product in 2002, a sizable number of brands have emerged with copies. One that rhymes with Jack Black markets a "cooling gel” that even contains lavender and rosemary oils, two of the three ingredients in our Signature blend. Oddly, they’re just missing the peppermint oil, the single ingredient that imparts the natural cooling sensation. Maybe a representative from their company comes to your house and blows on your face.
4oz/118ml
USAGE INSTRUCTIONS: After you’ve shaved, rinse your face with warm water and dry it off with a towel. Start with a dab of the aftershave and either apply it directly to your face and rub it around to cover or apply it to your hands, rub them together and then transfer the product from your hands to your face. Make sure to cover the part of your neck where you’ve shaved. After the product has been absorbed into your skin, you can apply facial moisturizer if your skin tends to be dry.
INGREDIENTS: Aloe vera, glycerin, distilled water, essential oils, witch hazel hydrosol, propylene glycol, alcohol.
PEOPLE WHO LIKE IT say “the sensory experience is worth getting up for,” it smells “unbelievably refreshing” going on but that the smell doesn’t linger, that the use of the shave cream and after-shave in tandem have eliminated shaving problems they’ve had since adolescence.
PEOPLE WHO DIDN"T LIKE IT said they didn't like the "cool" feeling on their face/that it felt more like a burning feeling because their skin is ultra-sensitive.
