What is razor burn?

What is razor burn?

Danielle Malka (Shaving Expert ) gives expert video advice on: How is male hair different from female hair?; What is razor burn?; Why do so many men cut themselves shaving? and more...

Razor burn is over exfoliating. What I mean by that, not using exfolient, is it's over exfoliating by shaving against the hair. When you shave against the hair, you are also shaving against the skin. The skin is like when you take a fish - if you run your finger on the fish skin in one direction it feels like silk, and in the other direction there's all the scales. Your skin is exactly the same way. When you're shaving with the grain, you're following the pattern of you skin so you're getting the hair, but you're not scraping too much of your skin. When you're shaving against the hair you're cutting the hair, but you're also scraping too much of the hair because you're going against the scale of the skin. In that respect, you're scraping too much. That's over exfoliating, in my view.