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- Monday February 5, 2018
I've been using Alum as part of my post shave.
I leave it on my face for a few minutes (as I've read the Alum has done its magic by this time) and then try and rinse it off with cold water.
Now when I do this, I can feel my hands sort of gripping to my face as I am trying to rinse the Alum off.
Whether I try and rinse the Alum off, or if I leave the Alum on, and apply my aftershave or post shave balm, in both cases I can see a bit of residue from the Alum.
What I sometimes do is, I squeeze the leftover soap out of my brush, and deposit it into my lathering bowl and once I've done my rinse with cold water, I give my face a rub/wash with the leftover lather as I would rather do this to get some more of the goodness out of the soap and also, so that I am not just washing the remaining lather down the plughole.
My question is:
Would I lose any benefit of the Alum, if I were to use the leftover lather to wash the Alum off my face after a few minutes?
The reason I am thinking of doing this is because, like I mentioned earlier, rinsing with cold water doesn't remove all of the Alum for me and I figure that with the lather been a soap of such, it would remove the Alum/Alum residue.
I leave it on my face for a few minutes (as I've read the Alum has done its magic by this time) and then try and rinse it off with cold water.
Now when I do this, I can feel my hands sort of gripping to my face as I am trying to rinse the Alum off.
Whether I try and rinse the Alum off, or if I leave the Alum on, and apply my aftershave or post shave balm, in both cases I can see a bit of residue from the Alum.
What I sometimes do is, I squeeze the leftover soap out of my brush, and deposit it into my lathering bowl and once I've done my rinse with cold water, I give my face a rub/wash with the leftover lather as I would rather do this to get some more of the goodness out of the soap and also, so that I am not just washing the remaining lather down the plughole.
My question is:
Would I lose any benefit of the Alum, if I were to use the leftover lather to wash the Alum off my face after a few minutes?
The reason I am thinking of doing this is because, like I mentioned earlier, rinsing with cold water doesn't remove all of the Alum for me and I figure that with the lather been a soap of such, it would remove the Alum/Alum residue.