Hey there! It's been a while. But things keep on keepin' on, don't they? It's mustache month, where we kick off a long winter by watching our friends and loved ones of the hairier gender grow some serious 'staches to raise awareness (and sometimes some money too!) for prostate cancer. So it's a natural that we'd take a look at shaving products.
Over at EWG's Skin Deep database, the results aren't surprising. The drugstore brands (Gillette, Skintimate, etc) score pretty poorly, as do products from greener brands such as Kiss My Face and Alba Botanica. The products with better scores are pretty obscure or high-end brands. I recently picked up a tube of the unscented Alba Botanica Very Emollient Cream Shave at Whole Foods, to the tune of $6.99, and the best I can do is a '3' from Skin Deep. Better than the 7s that Gillette's shave products are getting, but at more than three times the price!
GoodGuide has a lot of love for Dr. Bronner's Organic Shaving Gel, giving the top 5 spots in the category ranking to different versions of that product. It's worth comparing how the two databases rank products because they don't rank ingredients in the same ways. The Kiss My Face Moisture Shave is a good example; EWG doesn't like the retinyl acetate but GoodGuide lists it simply as 'vitamin A' with a low health concern. Which is it, folks?
So when your man is ready to shave off the dead animal on his upper lip, don't let him use something harsh and toxic on his skin. Hit up the databases, do your homework, and find a shaving cream that doesn't cause the cancer we're trying to avoid.
Hairlessly yours,
Jazzy
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