Most middle aged men living today can remember a point in time – just a few decades back – when the term ’skin care’ was almost exclusively associated with women. These were the days when the mention of the world ’skin care’ would only have drawn blank stares from men, who felt that it had absolutely nothing to do with them.

With time, things have changed. Today, skin care for men is in many developed societies seen as much of a man’s thing as of a woman’s thing. Manufactures of skin care products are even making some skin care products directly targeted to the men, with the number of such skin care for men products actually being more than skin care products for women in some outlets!

Yet the idea of skin care for men still attracts discomfort in some quarters – with one quite influential school of thought in men forums still holding the view that men should have nothing to do with ’skin care,’ which is perhaps a deluded view, as many things like ‘washing one’s face in the morning’ or ‘wearing shoes on the feet’ still fall within the confines of the term ’skin care.’ What this school of thought refers to when arguing that skin care practices are not masculine though are probably the so-called ‘advanced skin care practices’ like exfoliation and other types of cleansing. Still, the ideas of this school of thought can be confusing to the ‘ordinary’ man whose thinking it is seeking to influence, and whom the media and the makers of skin care products are also seeking to influence by arguing that the modern man has to ‘take care of how he looks’ if he is to be successful in this day and age.

So what many men are doing, to avoid being confused by all these conflicting voices is to seek skin care in moderation – by pursuing the standard skin care practices against which no one is arguing (like showers are the use of skin protection when going into direct exposure to sunlight) – while steering clear of the skin care practices against which there seems to be some controversy, like exfoliation and other types of exfoliation for instance.

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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