Crossword clues for aftershave
aftershave
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. a lotion, gel, or liquid used after finishing shaving
Wikipedia
"After shave" is a liquid product applied to skin after shaving. It contains an antiseptic agent such as denatured alcohol, stearate citrate or witch hazel to prevent infection of cuts, as well as to act as an astringent to reduce skin irritation. Menthol is used in some varieties as well to numb damaged skin, and it is an ingredient that shaving cream manufacturers have started including in their formulations, too.
Aftershave with alcohol usually causes an immediate burning sensation when applying it post-shave, with effects sometimes lasting several minutes, but most commonly only for seconds . For this reason, a market consisting of highly differentiated products has been created—some using alcohols, some not.
Some aftershaves use fragrance or essential oil to enhance scent. Moisturizers—natural and artificial, are often touted as able to soften the skin.
Aftershave is sometimes mistakenly referred to as eau de cologne due to the very similar nature of the two products. Some aftershave manufacturers encourage using their fragranced aftershave as if it were cologne, in order to increase sales by encouraging consumers to use it in a more versatile manner, rather than just after a shaving session. Some aftershaves were inspired by a cologne.
Early aftershaves included witch-hazel and bay rum, and have been documented in shaving guides. Both still are sold as aftershaves.
Usage examples of "aftershave".
He gave Jeb a quick hug, smelled the familiar scent of cinnamon chewing gum, spice aftershave and menthol muscle rub.
The tang of grape bubblegum mixes with the musk of drugstore aftershave.
The Clockmaker, even from several paces away, could smell his offensive aftershave.
Maddened visitors were looting the malls, filling their holdalls with aftershave, cyberporn and tubes.
The colorful cologne bottles attracted me, but my experience with aftershaves was not favorable.
There came to his nostrils not the expected reek of sulfur but a subtler effluvium of expensive aftershave, together with a few bars of elevator music -- and a natty young man in a sixties vintage suit with narrow lapels and a slim funereal tie peered at him from behind black, very mod horn-rimmed glasses.
Mason leaned close to her and she could smell the musky aftershave he seemed to have poured on.
His jacket was beginning to give off a once-familiar smell, cigarettes and musky aftershave and uncleaned wool in heady combination.
His subtle aftershave settled around hera bewitching fragrance that suited Nick and Nick alone, and made her pulse thrum.
She caught a light whiff of the aftershave that still lingered in her memory from the night before.
She leaned forward and kissed him on the cheek, smelling the attractive tang of his aftershave mixed with the earthy scent of his skin.
He smelled of soap, a good bracing aftershave, and lemon-scented dishwashing liquid.
But this being what we called a remf (rear echelon motherfucker) establishment and early in the morning, there was also a strong smell of soap, shaving foam, toothpaste, and aftershave.
Smells of blood and aftershave and cigarette smoke pressed around him, strengthed by confinement in the lineup box.
Hes been dead for years, but when I was little he would sit me on his lap in the living room of his big council house in Dagenham, the house that became the setting for Oranges For Christmas, and I would smell his Old Holborn roll-ups and his Old Spice aftershave as we listened to Frank sing sweet nothings on the music centre.