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mainly trying to find out what to use instead of shaving cream/foam as when i don’t use it and just use water to shave i get super itchy and i get “strawberry legs”. are there alternatives to shaving cream or should i not be shaving at all? thanks
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@ela Well, there's a reason for why your body wants to grow tiny hairs. Not only do I find these silky hairs to be nice on a girl's body, but the practical advantages of hair should be reason enough not to shave religiously every week. Hair protects your skin from all sorts of things, helps with sweating, keeps your skin moist, protects from abrasions, cuts, and insects, increases sensoric feedback and so much more. Not to mention, scraping your skin with metal blades doesn't do any good either. It took me quite a while to accept my body & body hair, but once you understand that your body is good, this acceptance comes much faster than you would expect. You know, most people nowadays are unhappy with their bodies and cope in some form, most often by repeating over and over again that they like their bodies and themselves.
Love knows no hate. Know Jesus and forget hatred.
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@ela Well, there's a reason for why your body wants to grow tiny hairs. Not only do I find these silky hairs to be nice on a girl's body, but the practical advantages of hair should be reason enough not to shave religiously every week. Hair protects your skin from all sorts of things, helps with sweating, keeps your skin moist, protects from abrasions, cuts, and insects, increases sensoric feedback and so much more. Not to mention, scraping your skin with metal blades doesn't do any good either. It took me quite a while to accept my body & body hair, but once you understand that your body is good, this acceptance comes much faster than you would expect. You know, most people nowadays are unhappy with their bodies and cope in some form, most often by repeating over and over again that they like their bodies and themselves.
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@ela Body hair makes sweat distributes evenly over your skin instead of forming puddles. AI explanation:
Body hair helps manage sweat like a rain chain guides rainwater: both use surface tension and structure to direct liquid flow instead of letting it pool or drip off wastefully.
A rain chain channels water downward in a controlled stream along linked cups or chains, slowing chaotic splashing and directing flow smoothly via gravity and adhesion.
Similarly, sparse human body hair (mostly fine vellus) acts as tiny natural “chains”:
• Sweat droplets emerge near follicles and coat the hair shaft.
• Capillary action (adhesion > cohesion) pulls sweat along the hair’s narrow surface, spreading it upward/sideways into thin films rather than forming big beads that fall off quickly (wasted cooling, since evaporation requires contact with air).
• This spreads sweat over a larger 3D area for faster evaporation, pulling more heat from skin (latent heat of vaporization).
• Like a rain chain preventing wasteful runoff, hair holds/distributes sweat longer in place for efficient cooling instead of immediate dripping. -
mainly trying to find out what to use instead of shaving cream/foam as when i don’t use it and just use water to shave i get super itchy and i get “strawberry legs”. are there alternatives to shaving cream or should i not be shaving at all? thanks
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@ela Body hair makes sweat distributes evenly over your skin instead of forming puddles. AI explanation:
Body hair helps manage sweat like a rain chain guides rainwater: both use surface tension and structure to direct liquid flow instead of letting it pool or drip off wastefully.
A rain chain channels water downward in a controlled stream along linked cups or chains, slowing chaotic splashing and directing flow smoothly via gravity and adhesion.
Similarly, sparse human body hair (mostly fine vellus) acts as tiny natural “chains”:
• Sweat droplets emerge near follicles and coat the hair shaft.
• Capillary action (adhesion > cohesion) pulls sweat along the hair’s narrow surface, spreading it upward/sideways into thin films rather than forming big beads that fall off quickly (wasted cooling, since evaporation requires contact with air).
• This spreads sweat over a larger 3D area for faster evaporation, pulling more heat from skin (latent heat of vaporization).
• Like a rain chain preventing wasteful runoff, hair holds/distributes sweat longer in place for efficient cooling instead of immediate dripping.
