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Really haven't had shaving irritation, as I use the disposables with the strip, and also make sure to use plenty of warm water after letting shaving cream soak in a bit.
However, several people in various conversations, and the beauty supply as well, have recommended "Tend Skin", to alleviate any irritation and ingrown hairs. I was told to let the man in my life try it as well, in this case, the men in my life.
Is this the product you had in mind?
As for shaving hind regions, oh boy oh boy, one cannot overlook a thing ... guess I'd better take another look, huh. But I've never been told of anything there, not that it would start growing now. Yet, a man with soft fuzzy hair I would not mutilate with a razor. And perhaps with a fine scissor, but only to trim.
Do let us know what you find out, so we can pass it on. 
xoxo
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-- Modified on 10/9/2001 11:16:34 PM
I can imagine, Shine R_6. Guess the Visine "gets the red" out of the bumps too?
Poor guys have their own sets of problems, although I have had, come to think of it, a couple of incidents with ingrown hairs, when the hair wanted to burrow under my skin and go/grow the other way.
I love it when I locate the "secret" ingredient in something else (as you have in Visine), and it doesn't create any side effects; you can get 2 for 1, so to speak in that you pack fewer things in your travel bag. I'd go for that.
However, I think women (I know I do) love to see a gent in a spa, beauty supply or at the women's cosmetic counter.
-- Modified on 10/10/2001 12:27:00 PM
It works well. I've used it after waxing and found that using it before the irritation appears helps prevent it. I think the active ingredient is acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin), which exfoliates.
2nd Street Beauty in Long Beach (two locations) carries it, and, for you scaredy-cats who are afraid to enter a beauty supply store, here a couple of sites that sell it online.
http://tendskin.com/
http://www.greatskin.com/product/ingrownhair.
-- Modified on 10/10/2001 7:40:28 PM
The soap you mentioned isn't gonna do squat, in the long run. The problem is ingrown hairs, not zits. Body hair is finer than facial hair, and body skin is more tender than facial skin, generally, unless you've been a full-time nudist your entire life. When you shave body hair close to the skin, it can curl "in", and if the skin is delicate, the prospensity toward ingrown hairs in increased. That's what you've got.
Arms and legs, which are much more exposed, don't bump as easily. Butts and pubes, which are covered most of the time, unless, of course, your Faye Desiree, it seems, , are more sensitive and easily irritated.
Benzoil peroxide will clear it up, eventually, only because it will eventually dry out the skin, which is then tough enough and allows the hair to grow out. But you're not gonna solve the problem, becuase next time you shave you'll get bumps, and eventualy the skin will get used to the BZ, and the law of diminishing returns applies. So what you're doing really isn't making it better, it's just shortening the time to clear, and temporarily.
How do I know this? I am one hairy MOFO, and when I started weight training, I began to shave down to accentuaute my new body cuts. But, I got serious bumps on my fanny, which tended to get even more irritated because I regularly freeride mountain bike, and bicycle seats are bad enough. I went through the same issues as you, tried some stuff until I met, through work, a former gay porn entertainer turned counselor/psycologist to gay adult industry workers. Somehow the conversation turned mainstream gay beauty images that prefer "hairless" and since most all men I know are hairy, but many gay men are not, I asked the dumb question -- "Are gay men just hairless by nature." No, no more than the general male population, but many gay men shave down, and that's where I learned about Tend Skin and Visine. I've heard about Bactine and Cotizone cream as well.
In short, either talk to a cut, hairless gay porn star (a rudundancy?) or listen to the women. And get over your psuedo-macho fear of visiting the cosmetics section. Listen, just by participating on this board, you are no longer in Kansas.
Ciao