If dragging a razor across your wiry field of stubble every morning leaves your skin red, irritated and ripe for ingrown hairs (which keeps your girl from wanting to get close), slide a little Triple Benefit Post-Shave Remedy on your face, après-rasage. (That's French for "after shave".)

Designed for those of us with thick and/or curly beards who tend toward razor bumps (and those of you who are forced to wear tight collars and ties everyday), this fragrance-free gel treatment from Lab Series hits you three ways: relieving and preventing ingrown hairs, soothing that irritation and redness from razor bumps, and working to soften beard hair to make shaving easier on your skin. (I'm not even asking what's in there that does that.)

Smooth some on after your shave to calm things down for the day, and a little more at night to let the softeners work on taming your beard, and let her get close, before the morning slicing begins.

$25 for 1.7 oz
www.labseries.com