For "My" Kind Of Hair - Jergen's Naturally Smooth Shave Minimizing Lotion
Written: Mar 24 '02
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Pros: easy to purchase, works great
Cons: Have to use this every time to see results (I feel)
The Bottom Line: For myself, who has a lot of dark hair on my legs, this has been the most amazing product!
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| KMINER's Full Review: Jergens Naturally Smooth Shave Minimizing Moisturi... |
I saw Jergen's Naturally Smooth Shave Minimizing Lotion on TV commercials, in women's magazines, and finally here at Epinions. Even with the negative reviews I was interested in trying this product - on the premise of finer and less noticeable hair ... a major quest in my life.
You see, I have been diagnosed with PCOD (Poly Cystic Ovarian Disease) - one of the by-products of this being that, due to my hormones often being out of whack, all body hair grows in darker, thicker, and at times, in an alarming rate. Through a combination of shaving, bleaching, and cream removers I have been better able to keep this under control. However, I have always been disturbed at the sheer amount of times that I need to shave, and how within 24 hours I can already see dark stubble.
So at this point, trying a $5.00 drugstore type lotion was worth the risk. After a trip to the local Walmart, I read the back of the bottle proclaiming:
"- Immediately leaves skin silky smooth
- Within 4 weeks, makes shaving faster and easier as hair becomes softer, finer, and less noticeable
- Within 8 weeks, need to shave half as often
- With continued use, shaving continues to be faster and less frequent
- Non-greasy formula contains herbalsilk extract, a natural botanical extract"
I had read the reviews, and expected little. I started with a fresh shaving of my legs, and applied this product, waiting for the miracle to unfold. Hmmm... still looked like my white, shaved legs. Let's wait a few days.
I am a lazy winter shaver, and if I shave once a week it is a miracle. So I really got to test out how this lotion works on the hair itself. I have since used this lotion for 4-5 weeks, and just purchased by bigger sized bottle, with a handy pump. Without detailing every day of this lotion's use, let me share with you some overall things I discovered about my experience with Jergen's Naturally Smooth Shave Minimizing Lotion:
- It's not perfumey or carries much scent. Overall this is good, but if you had an event where you wanted to smell good "all over" this product would not carry any helpful scent to match a perfume or other lotion you may have. I, in part, learned this when I stopped using this lotion a few times, in favor of using a scented lotion product in getting ready for a "special night". I thought the other, scented lotions would help me create a more overall "silky and scented" feel to my legs and body - which they did, temporarily, but I feel it hampered the effect of the Jergen's lotion in the end.
- It's an interesting pale color - not really orange, not really tan. It rubs in quickly though and absorbs well. I have not had the problem with any film of the lotion being left on my legs when I shave - however , I typically use an exfoliator scrub and an exfoliating shaving cream before I shave.
- It has a nice moisturizing effect that I didn't plan on. I have itchy legs most winters, and have only found Clinique's lotions to give me the all day comfort that I need. At over $17 a bottle, that can add up. Jergen's Naturally Smooth Shave Minimizing Lotion actually keeps my legs hydrated and soft throughout the whole day!
- Almost as important (to me) is that I have been less hairy! For me, that is beyond what I thought possible. I had always been one who in the summer had to shave every day in order to not see any dark stubble trying to peep through. After over 3 months of use, I can say it is not only easier to shave my legs, but also the hair is less noticeable. I know this sounds far fetched, but my razor glides more smoothly over my leg and I take less time in the shower shaving now.
- I have to use this lotion every day in order to see an effect. Not a problem for me, since I enjoy its many other benefits and I use lotion on my legs daily anyway.
This does not mean that I can go weeks without shaving and have no hair on my legs (*dern*). Ideally, I still need to shave every 3 days, though since it's not short/skirt weather quite yet, I usually only shave 1-2 times a week. Still shaving even every other day this summer will be a vast improvement over needing to shave daily last summer!
- A lesson I learned. This product does not work equally well on underarm hair (yes, I tried it) -- actually it even might, I didn't last more than 2 weeks of trying it! Why? This lotion, on my arms at least, forms a protective barrier that prevents my deoderant from working! After 2 weeks of "noticing my own smell" (LOL) I decided that re-applying new deoderant about 3 times a day was not worth any potential hair benefits.
Overall I highly recommend Jergen's Naturally Smooth Shave Minimizing Lotion to anyone with similar hair problems to mine. While I do not think this product will work for everyone, anyone with darker hair or moderate hair growth I feel should give this inexpensive lotion a go!
Ingredients: Water, Glycerin, Cetearyl Alcohol, Petrolatum, Mineral Oil, SD Alcohol 40-B, Ceteareth-20, Sanguisorba Officinalis Root Extract*, Aluminum Starch Octenylsuccinate, Dimethicone, Cyclomethicone, Stearic Acid, Glyceryl Dilaurate, DMDM Hydantoin, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Fragrance, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Carbomer, Sodium Hydroxide.
*Herbalsilk
Recommended:
Yes
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