Generally, shaving is done against the direction of hair growth. For sensitive areas, shaving in the direction of the hair growth often works better and gives fewer skin cuts but can be slower. Also, try to shave these areas after lathering up and soaking the body areas for a while. Stop shaving body areas that become red from shaving or get little red bumps after shaving until the skin heals and the redness vanishes. You risk infection if you shave while your skin is still healing.
Some people feels that gel shaving creams work better on the body than foam creams.
Men, such as competitive body builders, often pretrim body hair with a electric mustache trimmer. Back to Top Mechanical Epilators Mechanical epilators have electric a rubber roller or coiled spring that catches the hair and pulls it out, somewhat painfully, and tend to miss some hair. Epilators should not be used very sensitive skin such as the face, genitals, or armpits. Epi-Lady epilator utilizes a coiled spring that is rotated by an electric motor. As the hair enters the spaces between the coils, and the coils grabs the hair and pulls it out down to the hair root.