In days gone by, even the slightest preoccupation with 'skin care' was seen as a woman's thing; and woe unto you if you attempted to sell skin care products targeted at men, as you were bound to get frustrated, with a guarantee that no man would then have wanted to be seen purchasing skin care products, for fear of being branded 'sissy.'
Fast forward to the end of the first decade of the twenty first century, and we find ourselves living in an age when skin care for men has found a considerable degree of acceptance, with even a number of skin care products targeted at men actually being purchased in reasonable numbers.
Yet old beliefs, like old habits, die hard - and the subject of skin care for men is still a controversial one, even to this date. The idea that a man who makes skin care a preoccupation is a 'sissy' who envies the female state of being is, for instance, a widely held one, and it is an idea that tends to leave many men in a confusion, because the press (working in cahoots with the skin care product makers) wants to present the view that the modern man should care about how he looks - naturally with the use of the relevant skin care products - while some dissident voices in the society hold the contrary view that any man who as much as oils his body is 'sissy.'
Confused as to which point of view to follow - between making skin care a preoccupation and taking absolutely no care of their physical appearance - many men are opting to follow the path of moderation, namely taking some reasonably good care of their skin, but not making skin care a preoccupation - and for most men this seems to be the wisest route to follow.
So for the average man who doesn't want to appear too sissy, but who also doesn't want to appear like they have stopped to care of themselves, the standard skin care regimen will tend to involve a shower a day (which is considered the decent thing to do), and perhaps the application of a sun-screen lotion when going out into the sun; with most men deciding to steer clear of procedures like skin exfoliation and other types of 'advanced skin care practices' which, in their view, are best left to the women and 'metro-sexual' men.
Of course, the evolution of skin care for men is likely to witness major shifts in the coming days, as the skin comes to be rightfully viewed as the 'biggest body organ' it is really is, and as the term 'skin care' comes to be more associated with health maintenance than with appearance-enhancement.
Fast forward to the end of the first decade of the twenty first century, and we find ourselves living in an age when skin care for men has found a considerable degree of acceptance, with even a number of skin care products targeted at men actually being purchased in reasonable numbers.
Yet old beliefs, like old habits, die hard - and the subject of skin care for men is still a controversial one, even to this date. The idea that a man who makes skin care a preoccupation is a 'sissy' who envies the female state of being is, for instance, a widely held one, and it is an idea that tends to leave many men in a confusion, because the press (working in cahoots with the skin care product makers) wants to present the view that the modern man should care about how he looks - naturally with the use of the relevant skin care products - while some dissident voices in the society hold the contrary view that any man who as much as oils his body is 'sissy.'
Confused as to which point of view to follow - between making skin care a preoccupation and taking absolutely no care of their physical appearance - many men are opting to follow the path of moderation, namely taking some reasonably good care of their skin, but not making skin care a preoccupation - and for most men this seems to be the wisest route to follow.
So for the average man who doesn't want to appear too sissy, but who also doesn't want to appear like they have stopped to care of themselves, the standard skin care regimen will tend to involve a shower a day (which is considered the decent thing to do), and perhaps the application of a sun-screen lotion when going out into the sun; with most men deciding to steer clear of procedures like skin exfoliation and other types of 'advanced skin care practices' which, in their view, are best left to the women and 'metro-sexual' men.
Of course, the evolution of skin care for men is likely to witness major shifts in the coming days, as the skin comes to be rightfully viewed as the 'biggest body organ' it is really is, and as the term 'skin care' comes to be more associated with health maintenance than with appearance-enhancement.
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