Should you consider buying your man skin care products?

Men’s skin care products have been around for quite a while, and the skin care industry is huge for women of course. Recently I’ve been reading a bit about skin care products and anti aging products, for reasons unconnected with this blog.

Actually, looking for a gift for my wife.

I’ve been stunned by what I’ve found. The skincare and anti aging industry is pretty much unregulated by the FDA and there are all sorts of ingredients in skin care products and anti aging products that are considered suspect or downright dangerous. I had no idea.

There are actually whole organizations dedicated to trying to force the government and/or the skin care industry to clean up their products and make them safe. And on top of that it seems so many of these products don’t even work.

One of these organizations is called the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. If you’re interested in this stuff see what they have to say.

So before I got to buying some skin care products for my wife I did quite a bit of research and found some wonderful organic and quite natural skin care products that don’t have any nasty ingredients in them, and work. While I was browsing around their site I started looking at their men’s skin care products and got to thinking.

Do skin care and anti aging products for men make a good gift?

Interesting. I don’t use skin care products, and have never done so. Until I started my reading I would never have even thought of it, it just wasn’t a guy thing. However after doing quite some reading and finding out about the importance of taking care of yourself, and your skin, I’m thinking of starting.

After all, I exercise regularly, I’m a cyclist. And I try to eat a healthy diet. So why shouldn’t I start trying to take care of my skin, the largest organ in/on my body, as well as the rest of my body.

And I’ve been sunburned heaps, which is really bad for your skin, back in the days when I used to do a lot of surging and skin cancer was something that no one knew about.

So I’d be quite happy to get a range of skin care products as a gift.

However if your man is like I was a few days ago, he knows nothing about skin care, then I wouldn’t just get him to open up a gift box on his birthday and find a bottle of mens moisturizer in it. You don’t know what reaction you might get.

So first I’d talk a little to him about the importance of taking good care of himself, and his skin, and see how he reacts. Maybe show him a little of the information on the website of the company making the skin care products I’ve bought.

Read the signals and see whether you think he’d appreciate it, then try a small gift of a skin care product and see how it goes down.

If he doesn’t show any interest then get him that NFL jersey he’s always wanted.

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Here’s a great idea if he loves art, as long as you ignore the terrible website.

I’ve been perusing some art gifts and in particular one website which first took my attention. The artist contacted me about the artwork, warned me the website was terrible, and asked me to look at the artwork.

I agree, the website is terrible. But once I got over that I started to look at her artwork and decided I quite liked it.

The artist is Angela Kellett and her website is Man Cave Art.

She produces cut out wall hangings from Luan Wood. I’ve asked her a bit more about it as it interests me and so I’d like to know how she does it. Read more

Sometimes it’s hard buying for older men. They’ve got everything. But not these.

What do you buy for a present for an older man? Maybe it’s his 50th  birthday, or perhaps you’ve got a Christmas gift to buy for a 60 year old man. What is there that he’d like to have but he hasn’t got already?

Because if he’s 60, say, he’s had 60 years of gifts bought for him.

He’s earned money, bought what he wants, and accordingly isn’t so easy to buy for.

So what gift ideas have I been able to come up with for a vintage man?

How about vintage memories for the older man? A vintage army calendar, for example? Or perhaps a vintage Maryland football calendar. Or a superman calendar?

These are a few of the hundreds of vintage reproductions of calendars, stationary, postcards and lots more that you can find at Asgard Press.

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All good memories for him.

I’ve spent quite some time browsing around and there’s a massive stack of gift ideas, enough to keep anyone happy if they’re looking for a gift idea for the older man.

There’s something for everyone.

So if you’ve got, for example, a 60th birthday gift for dad to buy, check out the wide range of vintage gift ideas and see if you can’t find something there that would bring back some memories for him. Read more