Chris Salgardo talks men's grooming

All right, you know men, they'll search for a new car for six months, but then wash his face with whatever's in reach. Well, our next guest believes it's time to give men's skin care a little more thought. Men's skin care doesn't have to be complicated, but where should you start and what's worth buying? So here to talk about better habits, shaving, and the skin under that beard is grooming expert, Chris Salgado. Welcome. Welcome back. Thank you. It's so nice to be here. Your hair and beard are looking glorious. My hair is swinging and banging. It's real, right? It's mine. Nice. Even if it wasn't, though. All right. So are men getting into the grooming game a little bit more now? I mean, because the teenagers are getting into it. So the men better hurry up. The teenagers with no money. This is really interesting. Right? Exactly. So I think that there's two big shifts we're seeing. So one, this has been a, like I've been doing this for 42 years. I was recently at Nordstrom's, Bloomingdale's, and Blue Mercury all in a row. And for the very first time, I had men coming in and referencing products by name. Now, that may not seem like a big move, but behaviorally, men will just simply say, oh, I use the white stuff and kind of be clumsy about it or the yellow stuff. So now they're actually saying, oh, I love the skin armor. And if they're with a partner or a friend, they're actually recommending it. And that is huge because at the core of that is confidence. so he now feels like i can step out i can talk about this and not feel like this isn't for me and that's a major shift i think the other thing that we're seeing certainly we're seeing it without water is that there is this recognition of what your skin type is I will tell you this it's one thing to remember it doesn't matter how much you spend on a product if it isn't right for your skin type it won't work so you have to know am I oily am I dry am I combination and that behavior too so those two big things are a big shift and your skin changes too it does it might be different next year yeah which is why we were talking about that before it's not even just seasonal I mean I think it changes with age oh it does I mean when I got into my 50s I definitely had to kick it up and when I got into my 60s I really had to kick it up but that's why you want like your skincare routine should be simple but it's never one size fits all that's why we do oily skin dry skin combination skin I live in the northeast it snows it's humid it's hot it's cold I'm in a cab I'm out of a cab right you have to think about your skin and give your skin yeah what it needs at that moment strategy also I feel like not not just for men but some women like myself like if there is a 12-step process I'm not doing 12 I just won't do it I don't want to spend the money because I know I won't use it so I need like two steps for men though what would you say for them to get started in this like if they wanted to pare it down so men we have to break them of this habit of this bar soap from head to toe, right? Like it was what you're saying before, don't just, don't just use your partner's stuff either, you have your own stuff, yeah right and again there's that whole thing, but what if it's not even right for your skin, this is why men stop because they get something that they're not happy with it, so I always say get like a really good facial cleanser, yeah, that does the job and keep it in the shower, I am a fancy guy and I am done in 60 seconds, probably another two minutes for the hair, now that it's longer, I pop out and I use a moisturizer, so if guys do three things get a good universal cleanser, get a product that is right for your skin type, so ask, do you have one for my oily skin, eye cream My husband uses eye cream I'm very proud of him Can I have the gel? The cleanser, yes Because this bottle is nice It took me two years to find that shape, I was upset It looks almost like a glue stick It looks like a flask to me And I put it in the shower gel And that's like a perfect California sunrise FYI. Eye cream, make sure you get it in a tube, not a jar, because you don't want to post you don't want to be dipping your fingers yeah and you want something that's dense that's going to stay you want to feel your eye cream you don't want it to be so light oh my god it's gone it's like okay well where did it go you want to feel your eye cream and so you want to make sure you have something dense use it morning and night i see him doing it and i see him using the traps he uses chapstick he's very big on his chapstick yeah but he's an og likes the original kind of carmex or something no the chapstick actual sunscreen dave has sunscreen is so important so i watch a lot of your segments and i know you talk smells good right there's a story behind it's got sweet almond oil and it will dissolve makeup by the way because uh we have a lot of female fans but our number one selling product now is our moisturizer with spf and that's big the usage for men especially as we're talking about health and well-being sunscreen if you want to keep your skin looking good you want a neck like that you want hands like these you use this product on your face your neck and your hands strategy so this has become our number one selling product our skidamar with uh spf 50 and that says a lot again about behavior so if he's doing these three things cleanser sunscreen eye cream and then use something for night yes yeah also i would like to say as somebody who's married to a bearded boo um i have to tell you I'm so grateful that he takes... Beard oil. Yeah, he's got... I know, he loves a good beard oil. And for your eyebrows. And for his eyebrows. Whoa. And for your cuticles. Because let me tell you something, when you're snuggling up with your little snuffleupagus, that they take care of their beard because the scent... It can hold smells. Yeah, it holds a scent. And I like that it's like a sandalwood or... Oh, yeah, when it's like a nice, good beard oil. I've never smelled a beard. Oh, yeah. I like that. So we use lavender oil. And you can also... Come on over here. Put it in your brows. I'm doing boots on the ground And for extra credit a little cuticle oil, yeah, okay, give her that I mean, okay So that's nice. So men retain odor in their beard and we secrete odor through our beards So as somebody who's had a lot of experience with bearded guys You want something that targets them. So that's why I made this into a very unique formula. It's also a skin treatment It's on my beard right now. I just comb it through and I used to have a very patchy beard So it's moisturizing, it smells good, it exfoliates, it helps with deodorizing, and then you can put it in your eyebrows, and it'll deepen the color. How about for shaving, because men shave a lot, they get irritation, bumps, so what should they use? You want to make sure you're using, so first of all, 65% of the guys in this country have some kind of a beard, so you want something white, sheers, clear, or smooth target, so this way he sees where he's going. It also has an ingredient that lifts the hair, gives you that great shea, and then calms the skin down afterwards. So it's not all red and irritated. Exactly, or bumps. So we really kind of thought about all skin types and what do they really need. And so we went after that. So if you do this, so I do this, jump in the shower, wash myself, wash my face, jump out, moisturizer and eye cream, and I am done. Do you eye cream after sunscreen? I like to put our eye cream on first and I use moisturizer I've just trained myself that way after all my all these years and I use moisturizer as my final step at night time I step it up with a regular moisturizer and I mean ladies I plaster my face and I'm look how great you look but it's strategy right like you're moisturizing so you want something that's really hydrating so you have to think about it that way it's not just like uh you know what is this random product that i'm going to use once in a while when do you use it makes as much of a difference as the product you've chosen when you use so also like the way you're you approach your skin like when i see people rough with their skin when they're like the pulling and stuff the pulling or like even when they're wiping makeup off they're just like oh like you're supposed to pat pat when i watch my girlfriends i'm always in shock i'm like your skin is like screaming right now yes like i haven't put a washcloth i haven't had a facial i haven't put a brush on my face in over 40 years like i am so gentle with my skin but not your beard just your fingers yeah your product should do the heavy lifting not you because if you're doing this oh my god around your delicate eyes you're making a bigger problem for yourself wrinkles strategy your product should do that it's it's how you use products are as important as the products you buy can we talk about men real quick because this is a thing It's not on the table, but I see it on your face You've got nice eyebrows and you have two of them because you know a lot of men don't clean up the middle right? oh so they have i see yeah like first of all your eyebrow should start here as my mom always said should start here, the pencil rule, and eyebrows are super important They frame everything. They do, yeah. They, like, change your entire expression. So what's a good tip for the guys to, like, help keep their eyebrows clean? But, like, you know, still... Let me tell you something. If your eyebrows are, like, more manicured than mine, that's weird to me. That's what I'm saying. So, like, thick... It has to be minimal for a guy. Minimal. And only clean up underneath. You want to be careful with the shape. Like, all of us, again, to me, it's strategy. Like, right? Like, I've always wanted just smooth skin. So one thing I don't have out here, but a comb. it's like you see, I see somebody in a beautiful Tom Ford suit and I'll look down at those shoes and be like what are you thinking and then on the face they'll have a really great complexion and the eyebrows are going every which way and I'm just like comb those down, like I can't stand it, like just comb them down, that's your next product, I know you can take your beard oil and yeah, I don't leave the house without an eyebrow brush and I'm very serious, like you use like a spoolie or something else, no like an actual plastic, yes yes yes, I have a comb in that bag over there, I bring it to your brows, see for my brow and my beard, I just, it's just little things that um that you that you want to have that will just help with the maintenance but maintenance, my, I'm not a big uh waxer, okay, find yourself a good plucker and then just kind of zip them, you do it underneath but for and for my lady friends, oh my god, you asked for something and it appears, yeah yeah yes and then here and then hopefully it's in here I'm gonna look for it, all right, well show us your magic my carbon fiber comb, thank you so much for all these great tips, making it easy for men to look good and feel good, there now it's like you were in my bathroom, that's right, good to see you, thank you so much, thank you so much for having me, you can shop this line of products online or in stores and we'll be right back, I love it, clean fresh, let me know if you need anything at all