The Body, Considered

Four bottles, one shower, and the order that makes them work.

Everything below the collar has been washed with a bar of something that smells like a car air freshener since you were fourteen. This is the correction: the part of the routine no one photographs, done properly.

1. THE WASH — Peppermint & Dark Cedar. On damp skin, lather, rinse. Mint first, then cedar that stays.
2. THE SCRUB — twice a week. Black volcanic sand held in a cream, worked over heels, knees, elbows and the back you cannot reach. Rinse.
3. THE SERUM — Woody Amber & Leather, into skin still damp from the shower. Jojoba, rosehip and hyaluronic acid; it absorbs instead of sitting there.
4. THE CREAM — five percent urea, two percent panthenol, on whatever is still rough. Sits under clothes without residue.

For the man who has never once thought about his shins. Or for whoever is buying it for him.