Best Body Shavers

or blade across sensitive skin causes shaver rash, red bumps, and ingrown hairs not to mention nicks and cuts. An electric shaver with a hypoallergenic foil, like the Bare It All electric personal shaver - $46.98 - can really shave as close as a blade, even though the blades do not actually touch the skin. When wet shaving with a safety razor, the water you use is absorbed by osmosis into skin cells making them swell. The skin becomes puffy and rides up the hair shaft concealing the base of the hair shaft, so that no razor blade can reach it. You will have seen this effect when you stay in the water for a time at the pool, or in the bath and your skin becomes wrinkled. Once the skin cells dry out and deflate, the base of the hair is again revealed. This is why many incorrectly think shaving causes hair to re grow thicker and faster, even though this is biologically impossible. When switching to using an electric shaver, it is necessary to STOP wet shaving with razor blade as this flattens hairs against the skin. An electric foil shaver needs hairs to stand up away from the skin, poke through the holes in the foil, in order to cut them. The foil design lifts hairs from follicles and cuts very close at skin level. However it takes a week or so for any electric shaver to provide a shave as close as a blade, as well as a different shaving technique. An electric shaver is also cheaper in the long run over the course of a year than buying razor blades, shaving foam, lotions, moisturizers, bumps fighters, every few weeks. As a final word. NO shaving does not cause hair to grow back thicker and faster. That is a totally disproved old wives tale.