Men’s Grooming Tips
Whether you’re a jack of all trades or a master of one, a seasoned pro or a skincare novice, a dedicated men’s grooming routine will help get your handsome mug clean and healthy-looking – helping you feel more cool, collected and confident to tackle whatever you face day-to-day. There’s something here for everyone, helping to counter skin curveballs or get your routine down to a fine art, from cleansers to help drive out impurities to shaving essentials to help hone your ideal facial fuzz. Our best skin products for men are straightforward and hard-working – just like you, really.
STEP 1 - CLEANSE
Squeeze our Seaweed Pore-Cleansing Exfoliator into your fingertips, rub together and massage into wet skin in upwards motions. Rinse off using lukewarm water. The formula for this lather-y exfoliator is infused with mineral-rich seaweed from Ireland’s Roaring Water Bay, as well as jojoba beads and olive stone, and is ideal for oily/combination skin. It helps to slough off those dead skin cells – you’re done with those – and leave your face feeling softer and smoother. Happy days.
STEP 2 - TONE
Next, dampen one of our Clean Conscience Reusable Makeup Remover Pads with the Tea Tree Skin Clearing Mattifying Toner and sweep across your forehead, down your nose, across your cheeks and chin to help lift any remaining skin impurities, dirt or cleanser. This toner is enriched with Community Fair Trade tea tree oil in a formula that doesn’t over-dry skin but helps to refresh it. Just watch – you’ll notice skin appears visibly clearer.
STEP 3 - MOISTURISE
Lastly, make sure your skin feels hydrated before you tackle whatever your day has in store. Smooth our Vitamin E Moisture Day Cream onto your face, avoiding the eye area. It’s pleasingly lightweight in texture, absorbing quickly without leaving a trace. Ideal for all skin types, and enriched with natural origin hyaluronic acid, it feels gentle enough even for sensitive skin, and will leave yours feeling instantly quenched with moisture. In fact, it boosts hydration by 38% for 8 hours – what’s not to love?
Face Wash for Men
While a splash of water at the end of the day might feel like you’re embracing nature, it won’t be ridding your face of the nasty things that build up over the day. Excess oil that your body naturally produces, dirt and impurities, sweat and the like can hang about on the skin’s surface if they’re not kindly shown the door. How to usher them off your face? Simply use one of our cleansers to help effectively clean and leave your skin feeling fresh and soft. And all of that works all the better when you use a face wash that’s designed just for your skin type. What’s a skin type? It’s just a means of grouping innate ways our skin behaves. So if yours can be a little unruly, you’ll know just how to help keep it in hand after reading our men’s face grooming guide.
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Men’s Face Wash for oily skin
When you notice that you’ve got a bit of extra oil all over your face, that typically means that you have an oily skin type. You might also be more blemish-prone, a skin concern that often goes hand-in-hand with oily skin. For men with oily skin, you’ll want a face wash that will help to reduce that shiny-faced look, not to mention help reduce the appearance blemishes. So meet our Tea Tree Skin Clearing Facial Wash. After using this cooling cleanser, skin feels refreshed with no excess oil on the skin's surface.
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Men’s Face Wash for dry skin
Dry skin may feel tight, desert-like. Run your finger over your face to check – does it feel more rough than smooth? To help skin feel comfortable again and keep it from getting dry, link up with our Vitamin E Cream Cleanser. Massage this cream cleanser into your face before wiping off with a damp muslin cloth. Enriched with upcycled raspberry seed oil, known to be a source of vitamin E, it helps to remove impurities, while leaving skin feeling clean and softer. So, basically, it’s a dry skin staple.
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Men’s Face Wash for sensitive skin
Technically a skin concern rather than skin type – if you find that yours is reactive, easily irritated or dry, you’ve probably got sensitive skin. That means you need to treat it kindly by only using products formulated to have a gentle touch. Our vegan foam cleanser, the Aloe Calming Foaming Wash is just the ticket. It’s enriched with Community Fair Trade organic aloe vera from Mexico and helps to clean skin without leaving it feeling dry. In fact, skin feels soft, soothed. Less chance of skin irritation, more time for the important stuff.
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Men’s Face Wash for dull skin
When you look in the mirror do you see radiance, or skin that’s looking tired and dull? This needn’t have you stumped. Simply turn to our Guarana and Coffee Energising Cleanser for Men for your morning wash. It foams well while feeling gentle on skin with an invigorating scent among other things that will help perk you right up. This purifying wash helps to effectively clean skin without drying it out, while helping to refine the skin’s texture. Look, see – pores appear less noticeable and your face looks radiant again.
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“LOVE this face wash. So refreshing and makes my skin feel really fresh and CLEAN after I've used it.”
ClareSweetPea
About Tea Tree Skin Clearing Facial Wash
Toners for Men
If there’s one thing you take away from our male grooming tips, we hope it’s that sometimes a little something extra can help make a difference to what you see when you glimpse your reflection. That something is one of our toners. You’re already a handsome devil, but this often-overlooked skincare step is the missing ingredient in helping take skin to angelic new heights. Forget being vain, this crucial second step in your skincare routine is a virtue. Whether helping to keep your skin concerns under control or simply targeted for just your skin type, toners can help minimise the appearance of pores or blemishes, hydrate or restore your skin’s natural pH balance after using a face wash or cleanser. All important skincare science for helping your face to look its best – you’ll be a convert before you know it.
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Men’s Toners for blemished skin
Feel like you’re constantly battling blemishes? Our Tea Tree Skin Clearing Mattifying Toner will help skin look noticeably clearer. Unlike some harsh formulas that can over-dry the skin (which in turn can lead to blocked pores and so even more blemishes), ours helps to tone skin, as well as helping to remove any impurities or traces of product which can clog pores if left on skin. After using this toner, enriched with Community Fair Trade tea tree oil, your face will appear more matte and feel refreshed.
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Men’s Toners for normal to dry skin
If your skin errs on the normal side or slightly dry, you’ll benefit from our bestselling Vitamin E Hydrating Toner. As part of our iconic Vitamin E range, it’s enriched with, you guessed it, vitamin E, as well as wheatgerm oil. Use this hydrating formula and notice how skin feels refreshed, not to mention clean – with any last particles of dirt, make-up or cleanser helped to find their way off your face. Result.
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Men’s Toners for oily or combination skin
If your face is oily all over or just concentrated on your forehead and nose AKA the T-zone, our Seaweed Oil Balancing Toner is the one for you. Targeted towards this excess oil and balancing it out, the toner feels pleasant on skin and helps to remove any lingering cleanser, as well as helping to refine the appearance of pores and improve the overall condition of skin. Your face will now be ready for the next step, as this balancing toner helps prepare your skin to better absorb your moisturiser.
Moisturizers for Men
Last but not least in your 3-step skincare programme is moisturizing. A good moisturizer used every day (and not just after you shave) will help skin to maintain the natural balance of a trained tightrope walker, while keeping it feeling smooth and soft. It also helps to ensure your natural protective barrier is supported, a kind of safety net for the skin helping reduce dryness when faced with the elements and all that life stuff. Approaching male grooming with this mainstay in mind will stand you in good stead, helping your face to walk the line between well-groomed and happy.
What kind of guide would this be without some talk of skin type? Don’t go choosing a moisturizer without considering what your exact skin type needs. This science-based skincare system is seriously helpful even if you aren’t sure what your skin’s in need of, because it gives you clues to look for. If identifying your perfect moisturizing match leaves you feeling lost, check out our dedicated face moisturizer guide. Meanwhile, we’ve rounded up some of our must-know-about moisturizers here.
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Seaweed Oil-Control Lotion SPF 15
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It is perfect for skin that has trouble keeping its natural oils in balance, whether you’ve got oily or combination skin. It’s a lightweight moisturiser that feels refreshing, while helping to balance excess oil and get your complexion looking more shine-free and feeling hydrated.
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Vitamin E Moisture Cream
If you’re in need of an all-rounder, look no further than our best-selling Vitamin E Moisture Cream. It’s lightweight, absorbs easily and locks in moisture for all-day hydration, making it a great option for any skin type.
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Guarana & Coffee Energising Moisturiser for Men
Lastly, if you have the kind of skin that looks like it needs a double shot in the mornings, you’ll love our Guarana & Coffee Energising Moisturiser for Men. It’s ultra-fresh and looks invisible when applied to skin, giving relief to dry skin and helping it feel energised, uplifted and more supple.
Men’s Shaving Tips
You might do it every day, but if you’re being honest does your skin really love it when you shave? Would it perhaps benefit from a bit of a routine review or like a little treat (like all of us do)? We’ve got 4 simple tips to help take your men’s facial grooming routine from so-so to super. Once you’ve mastered these tricks, you’ll find your goatee, stubble or sideburns are all the more sharp and refined-looking for them. Your skin will be helped with all sorts of invigorating, nourishing and hydrating feelings. And we’ve made it easy as pie for you with 4 easy-to-follow steps. Chin chin.
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Tip 1 - Cleanse
Before you help your bristles look their most brilliant or banish that five o’clock shadow altogether, getting your skin ready is a must. Use our Guarana and Coffee Energising Cleanser for Men to help get a clean base. Enriched with Brazilian guarana, Ethiopian green coffee and Community Fair Trade organic aloe vera, it’s one of our best men’s products for helping to invigorate skin. You might like to use it in the shower to steam up the bathroom and help open pores, but only wash your face with skin-loving lukewarm water.
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Tip 2 - Use a shaving cream
There’s nothing worse than a face full of shaving nicks. It doesn’t feel, or look great, right? So, avoid this retro movie cliche, not to mention help skin to feel protected from cuts and irritation, with our Maca Root & Aloe Softening Shaving Cream for Men. It’s easy to apply with your fingers or a brush, and spreads evenly in a rich creamy layer across your face. Skin feels comforted and prepped with hair feeling softened, assisting you in getting that razor gliding and a smooth shave.
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Tip 3 - Use the right tools
More than a tool from days gone by, or an accessory for making your bathroom look like a chic spread from a magazine, a shaving brush is a requisite next to your razor. That’s why we recommend our super soft Shaving Brush. It helps to up the lather from our Maca Root & Aloe Shaving Cream and so help maximise its effects. It’s made of FSC wood and synthetic hair, so better for the planet, naturally. And remember, when your beard is smothered and you pick up your razor, shave with the grain.
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Tip 4 - Moisturise
Moisturising with our Maca Root & Aloe Cooling Post-Shave Water-Gel for Men helps keep the good feels going long after you’ve put down your razor. It makes light work of helping to cool and care for skin, being, well, a lightweight, non-greasy formula for your newly neatened face. It’s enriched with Peruvian maca root and Community Fair Trade organic aloe vera from Mexico and helps skin feel fresh and quenched. And bonus point – it helps to reduce the appearance of any post-shave irritation or redness, while helping preserve your clean cut look.
![The Body Shop Maca Root & Aloe Softening Shaving Cream The Body Shop Maca Root & Aloe Softening Shaving Cream](assets/images/product/placeholder.png)
“Great product, smells great & lasts ages. Brilliant value for money & when used with the brush gives a great shaving experience”
Surfigowljim
About Maca Root & Aloe Softening Shaving Cream For Men
Men’s Fragrance
Smelling and feeling great is about more than showering, you know. That’s why you should round out your grooming routine with a spritz of one of our naturally inspired fragrances – you’ll no doubt notice heads turning and noses sniffing the heavenly scent of you. Layering scents helps them to last longer, so using our shower products followed by body moisturiser, then one of our finely tuned fragrances will help you to reach new heights of male grooming excellence.
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Arber Eau de Toilette
Looking for something a little more fresh? Recall your holiday memories with our Arber Eau de Toilette. It boasts citrus top notes, a heart of coriander and cinnamon leaf, and an earthy, woody base of cedarwood.
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Kistna Eau de Toilette
An aromatic scent that’s perfect for daily wear, our Kistna Eau de Toilette combines the zinginess of citrus fruits grapefruit and mandarin with a herbal heart and base notes of warming cedarwood and musks.
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Blue Musk Eau de Toilette
Previously known as White Musk® for Men, our Eau De Toilette is now renamed Blue Musk, because our fragrances are designed to be worn by anyone and everyone. Blue Musk Eau De Toilette is packed with bold, fresh notes that give you the confidence to own your power.
Conceal
Even if you’re not prone to blemishes, we all have days when we could use a little help or lift from a concealer. But not just any. Our Vitamin C Concealer is enriched with Community Fair Trade tea tree oil from Kenya and helps to conceal while feeling lightweight on skin. It’s easy to blend, building up to an even coverage and helps to camouflage even dark under-eye circles. Quick to dry with a flawless-looking finish, better yet, it lasts all day, leaving skin looking balanced and clarified.
Define brows
Did you know that the shape of your brows can change your entire face? More than the protective layer over your eyes, they really frame your face, accentuating the features you want to play up. To help you make the most of yours, our Frame-it Brow Pomade. It helps you shape your brows so you can achieve an instantly fluffier, defined and tinted looking brows..
Set
If you’re applying makeup to your face, then no doubt you don’t want it slipping and sliding. But that can sometimes be inevitable in hotter climes or when you’re sweating it out, whether legging it for the bus or making a move on the dancefloor. That’s why our All-Day Long Setting Spray is an essential. It’s enriched with Community Fair Trade moringa oil and infused with buddleja extract, our multi-tasking makeup setting spray seals moisture, set your makeup and helps protect your skin against the effects of blue light from electronic devices. Simply spritz over your face for help keeping your makeup going strong, looking fresh all day, resisting smudges and fading.