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PURPOSE: To obtain the title cosmetic which can be uniformly applied to skin to improve shaving quality without any damage to simplicity and speediness of electric shavers by adding a specific amount of a dust of a specific particle size, a spherical form and less than a prescribed value of true specific gravity to a volatile carrier. n CONSTITUTION: 0.1 to 10wt.% of a dust of spherical particles of 1 to 50μ particle size and 1.5 or less true specific gravity such as nylon, polystyrene, polytetrafluoroethylene are added to more than 50wt.% of a volatile carrier such as a cyclic dimethylpolysiloxane, lower alcohol of 1 to 4 carbon atoms) to give the subject preshaving cosmetic for electric shavers. The cosmetic gives excellent lubricity between the outer blades of the electric shavers and the skin surface, thus improving shave feeling, reducing beard counts remaining uncut, enabling deep shaving with improved skin feeling after shaving. n COPYRIGHT: (C)1990,JPO&Japio |