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Groom organically with Grown Alchemist

By Jennifer Ryan Jones Jul 26, 2024 7:21 PM

The shift to all things organic continues with Australian skincare line, Grown Alchemist. This unisex line offers innovative, chemical-free skincare products worth adding to your everyday routine. There are some great problem-solvers in the mix. Look to them for natural solutions to some of your nagging grooming issues. Concerned about redness? How about enlarged pores? They have chemical-free concoctions for both. Using organic ingredients and natural botanicals Grown Alchemist will nurture you from the outside in. And what’s left out of these potions is just as important. They feel “many chemical-based products brimming with synthetic active ingredients and preservatives, could in fact be contributing to the aging products.” That’s something to think about. Let Grown Alchemist improve your skin without harsh chemicals.

Using a fresh razor blade, shaving in the direction of your hair growth and softening your scruff before shaving will help you avoid razor burn. Shaving Gel: Sandalwood & Sage offers a soothing shave for all beard types. This formulation lifts the hair follicle and provides a smooth glide. Sandalwood and Coriander Seed Oil calms rashes and inflammation while Sage and Willowbank balances oil and reduces the size of your pores. You’ll feel smooth and protected.

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If you have combination oily and dry skin try following up your shave with Matte Balancing Moisturizer Acai Berry Borago. Hydrate without looking like an oil slick with this daily moisturizer. It’s packed with antioxidants that protect skin from premature aging, it balances the skins PH level and reduces acne. It gets your complexion clear and smooth while repairing the appearance of sun damaged skin.

Nothing shows your age or reveals fatigue like dark circles and under-eye baggage. To get rid of puffiness apply Age-Repair Eye Cream: Tetra-Peptide & Centella around the eye area with your fingertips until it absorbs into the skin. This cream has Centella and soy along with essential fatty acids and Vitamins A, E and D will have you looking refreshed in no time.Who needs sleep anyway?

Jennifer Ryan Jones is a fashion and grooming expert who contributed regularly to The Manual and AskMen.com. Her past… Read Full Bio

The Manual’s Grooming Awards Are Open for Submissions

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For eight years, The Manual’s Grooming Awards have done one thing: told readers which products actually work. Not which ones arrived in the nicest box, not which brand bought the most media. Which ones survived months of daily use on our own faces, in our own showers, and were still worth reaching for at the end.

This year, we’re opening the awards to submissions.

Who says wearing a hat worsens hair loss? GroWell disagrees

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A couple of years ago, I took a flight to Istanbul on Turkish Airlines to meet with a hair transplant expert. It wasn’t for my scalp; it was for my beard. Stress-induced alopecia had ravaged one side of my face, and I was horribly self-conscious about it. Even images I took for my articles here on The Manual I would limit to the right side of my face. Ultimately, I got the transplant on the left side and went home happy. Now my right side is following suit, and I am considering the same thing again.

But what if I didn’t have to do all of that? What if there was a better way to treat hair loss? The secret is to get out in front of it early. Don’t wait. That doesn’t mean book a ticket on “Turkish Hairlines” and start going under the knife (dramatic, but you get the point). Instead, there is a better way to start early. Red light therapy. But, guys don’t always have the time. So the fix is in GroWell’s red light therapy hat. Who said wearing a hat causes you to go bald? That old wives’ tale is a thing of the past.

Why ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky Is Dead Wrong About Pedicures — and the Late Kobe Bryant Would Agree

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If the name Dan Orlovsky rings a bell, you probably know him for two things. He’s the quarterback who infamously ran out of the back of the end zone in 2008 as a member of the Detroit Lions. The move is considered such a bone-headed move that when Cody Kessler did the same thing in 2016, pundits wrote that Kessler pulled a Dan Orlovsky. The name also might ring a bell because of his takes as an NFL analyst on ESPN.

It turns out that there’s now a third reason why the name rings a bell. Earlier this week, Orlovsky said he’s completely against men getting pedicures. The subject came up after football fans learned that Florida Gators football coach John Sumrall, a no-nonsense tough guy, loves getting pedicures. Orlovsky appeared on Mike Greenberg’s Get Up show and made his feelings known.