Continued from How to Shave.

Here are five steps that are designed to show you how to shave your face. The how to shave your face steps are easy to follow and I hope you will find them useful. If you have any tips on how to shave your face that you think will be useful, feel free to share them in the comments section.

1. Wash you face The ingredients common to a great shave are heat, moisture and shaving strokes. When washing your face, you’re heating up the surface and softening it with moisture.

2. Preparation This is the single most important part of the shave. After warming the skin with a hot towel, use a pre shave oil that will soften the beard, get your whiskers to stand up straight, open your pores and make your skin more elastic. This reduces ingrown hairs.

3. Shave Use a glycerin-based shaving cream, which moisturizes the skin and reduces friction by allowing a better glide for the blade. Shave with the grain first. Shaving against the grain pulls the hair and shocks the follicle. People with sensitive skin shouldn’t shave against the grain at all.

4. Tone This helps restore your skin’s pH balance, closes the pores, cleans the skin and tightens it back up. An aftershave skin toner should be witch hazel-based.

5. Finish Apply a moisturizing lotion or sunscreen. On the days when you dont shave, just wash, tone and finish.