FAQ

In general, women age sooner in slower progressions. Men age later, because the masculine skin is thicker and starts out with more collagen and elastin than women's. But once the male aging process begins, it happens in quantum leaps. At some point, the years of subjecting the skin to harsh conditions through shaving (which constantly strips away layers of protective skin and natural moisture), outdoor activities and hazardous work conditions catch up to him. 

Many experts agree that it takes less than 10 seconds to form a first impression about a person and over 90% of the decision is based on appearance. The initial judgment could make or break a job interview, a first date, or a critical business deal. It's not about looking young or handsome, it's about looking good. Your face says so much about your vitality and general state of health. Proper diet and regular exercise promote health and wellness. Extend that routine to your face, as you would with regular maintenance on your car. Like your trusted ride, if you take good care of your face, your face will take good care of you.

There are two reasons. As we age, we lose collagen and elastin, the two major building blocks of skin. Collagen is like an understructure that keeps your skin plump and firm. Elastin helps the skin "snap back" in place when it's stretched out of place from facial expressions etc. Younger skin is tight and supple. Collagen and elastin work like the coil springs and shock absorbers in your car's suspension system. When a car comes across a bump or a pothole in the road, the tension in the springs responds quickly to help keep your ride a smooth one. But with wear and age, your car's suspension system loses that ability to "snap back" as quickly and effectively as it once did. Coil springs in the mattress also work in the same way.

As we age, dead skin cells don't shed as quickly and new cell growth slows. As a result, skin sags and loses its texture. It also becomes dull, rough, dry and builds up gunk and debris, like the finish on your car over time. Then there are free radicals that react with certain chemicals in the body, and in the process, cause damage and interfere with the skin cell's ability to function normally. And if these weren't enough, environmental factors, like sun (UVA/UVB) exposure and pollution also cause wrinkles and other visible signs of aging skin - think unconditioned leather bucket seats that become parched and wrinkly over time.

You wouldn't use a tire cleaner on your fine leather seats, so you'd want to think twice before making a habit out of using an all-purpose body wash all over the most delicate parts of a masculine face. Soap and body wash can strip your face of natural moisture, leaving it dry and prone to fine lines that deepen over time. Facial skin has very different needs and texture than your hair and the rest of your body parts. 

A facial is a general term for beauty treatments that are usually performed by an aesthetician in a professional setting, e.g. a spa, salon, or doctor's office. In the USA, a facial treatment can cost anywhere between $50 on the low-end to an average of $150 and upwards of $250 or more per session. The price depends on a combination of factors - the client's objective, condition of the skin, type of procedure, experience of the professional, office location and so on. Generally, you will be asked to book a handful of sessions in short intervals, or to subscribe to an on-going treatment program to maintain your objective. Rarely will one single session resolve your skin care issues. If it does, you probably could have achieved the same results without it. 

There are some facts you'll want to consider before you decide if a facial session is right for you. First, the down-time. Depending on the type of treatment the aesthetician recommends for you, your face may be red, blotchy, dry or even scaly for days. You may need to stay out of the sun, or away from bright indoor lights for some time, wear protective clothing or head covering. Second, find out how many sessions you will need to achieve your objective and how long the results from each session will last. 

Finally, find out if you will be required to 'do your homework' to maintain the results. Many aestheticians will request that you 'do your share' to maintain the results from the facial session with a series of skin care products and daily regimens to follow at home. By the time you're done, a $65 facial session may end up costing you a few to several hundred dollars for skin care products that are possibly at best, equivalent to what you find here at FaceLube. 

The short answer - so does your dishwashing liquid, but you wouldn't use that on the masculine face! Think about it - if that were enough, women would stop using any skincare and anti-aging products, too. 

Like a regimen of healthy diet and exercise, the earlier you start putting your face on a proper maintenance schedule, the better the results you will have over time. And you can never be too late. Even if you're only in your twenties, it's not too early to start on a skin care regimen. It's like getting your car started on a maintenance schedule when it's still under automaker warranty. You don't want to wait until it looks like it has seen miles of bad road! Think about it - your sister, girlfriend or wife probably started on a skin care routine in her teens. 

If you are a first time user new to the FaceLube Maintenance Schedule, we suggest that you start with one of the Kits. Once you become familiar with the routine and your preferred usage, you can use each of the steps independently, or even mix and match.

Step 1 - Start with a Good Cleanser

Why it's good for you - Because your face builds up dirt, grime and dead cells, you want to clean it away to prepare your face for Nutrition and a close shave. Masculine skin typically has larger pores and very active sebaceous glands. While these glands are critical for keeping the skin naturally hydrated, if they produce too much sebum, your skin will feel greasy. Neglect to wash away the excess oil and dirt can clog pores and leave the skin prone to breakouts.

It's like washing your car, you want it free of old build-up wax, bird droppings, brake dust and road debris, but you don't want to strip it so much that you damage the clear coat finish. So you want to use a cleaner that is gentle enough to bring out the skin's natural moisture, but powerful enough to unclog pores and cut through the grime. 

Step 2 - TREATMENT (Nutrition for Your Face)

Why it's good for you - Now that you've gotten rid of the gunk and junk on your face, you want to feed it proper nutrients. Treatment minimizes fine lines and wrinkles by helping to restore the skin's natural balance, rebuild collagen and elasticity, repair past damage and strengthen it against further environmental and free radical assaults. 

Also, men with oily skin tend to have the misconception that they don't need to nourish the skin. But that's not the case, because the process of shaving constantly strips away layers of protective skin, in addition to natural moisture, so it's important to restore the balance. In the summer months, sweating dehydrates the skin, so you will want to restore the skin's natural balance with a treatment to keep it from becoming even oilier. 

Step 3 - PROTECTANT / FACE CREAM (Protection for Your Face)

Why it's good for you - Protectant works in conjunction with Treatment. It picks up where the treatment leaves off. Often, the active ingredients in the Protectant are complementary to the Treatment. The Protectant helps to further strengthen the skin's inner structure and seals in moisture. Regardless of your skin type, in the winter, you will want to complete your routine with a Protectant, because when it's cold outside and warm inside, the artificial warm air dries out your skin more than usual, causing it to itch, flake and develop fine lines and wrinkles again. 

If you spend time in the sun, or drive around a lot, you'll want to give your face the added protection of a high performance broad spectrum sunscreen that doesn't leave you smelling like the tutti-frutti lady. UVA/UVB rays are damaging to skin. Apply 15 minutes before sun exposure and reapply every couple of hours. A high quality sunscreen is natural or mineral based and has anti-aging properties. It won't have controversial ingredients such as oxybenzone. The texture is light and doesn't feel chalky or oily on your face. It shouldn't have an annoying chemical odor. In fact, it should smell like a masculine man or it shouldn't smell like anything.

The FaceLube Natural! Anti-Aging Sunscreen is formulated without silicones, parabens, oxybenzone, phthalates, gluten or other controversial chemicals.

If you hate the plastic-like, chemical smell, or fruity cover-up flavors of common sunscreens and the chalky, oily gunk it leaves on your face, then you'll like the FaceLube Natural! Anti-Aging Sunscreen for men.

Modern chemicals used for infusing anti-aging skin care products with SPF properties are irritants and are often not compatible with the most advanced and effective anti-aging ingredients. 

FaceLube is well aware of the pervasiveness of SPF infused anti-aging skin care products out on the market. We understand that consumers like the convenience of an all-in-one product, but the technology isn't there yet. FaceLube® also feels that to include it in our products would be misleading and irresponsible, because sunscreen must be applied continuously and liberally to provide the most effective protection against UVA/UVB rays. 

Men's skin care and anti-aging products with light SPF properties meant for single AM application give consumers the false impression that it only needs to be applied once a day for full day protection. Most experts recommend reapplying sunscreen every couple of hours. You don't have to take our word for it, confirm it with your own research. 

Sure! We get it. You've got a hot date, a reunion, the deal of a life time that just fell into your lap a minute ago and now you're scrambling to present your 'best face'. Yes there are products out there that will lift that droopy eye lid and erase those wrinkles in minutes... But that's not FaceLube.    

The 'miracle', 3-5-7 minute instant lift serums you see on TV and elsewhere have one purpose only - temporarily lift droopy skin. There are some issues with this. 

1. Check the ingredients. If the ingredients you put on your face matters to you. e.g. high quality natural, organic or botanical based ingredients, these often chemical-based products aren't it. 

2. Un-natural look and feel. If your face feels awkwardly tight, filmy and chalky. It probably is. And the last thing you want minutes before your big meeting is for a colleague to pull you aside and ask the dreaded - "what happened to your face?". But don't worry, you'll get  your old face back in a matter of hours because results don't typically last more than that. 

3. Last but not least the main reason FaceLube doesn't sell these -  these type of products are very stressful for your skin. It's like doing heavy duty weight lifting without the requisite warm-up.  

So do yourself a favor. Start putting your face on a maintenance schedule,  with men's skincare products built from the ground up for men, so you can be ready to waltz into any situation and always look your masculine best!

Absolutely. Just like taking care of your wheels and that favorite ride involves a series of smaller steps that lead to a great big picture outcome, or how a balanced diet and exercise leads to a healthy, strong and vibrant body, the effects of taking proper care of your face is cumulative. Please keep in mind though that all natural products are great for general maintenance, but will take longer to deliver anti-aging results. 

Results are typically most noticeable around 3 weeks. Experienced users of men's skincare can usually tell far more quickly - within days of use. Many FaceLube customers are newbies and we love getting emails and feedback that tell us the customer had no idea that the product was working until one day someone he hadn't seen in sometime compliments him on how good (or how much younger and more vibrant) he looks! 

So keep at it and you will see the results for yourself. It's normal if you don't immediately feel the active ingredients working on your face, some people are naturally more sensitive than others. Rest assured, the active ingredients are doing their thing. And like scheduled maintenance on your car, you will be able to maintain optimal results and keep your face in the best shape that it can be short of cosmetic procedures. The motivation will be even stronger when people start talking about how good you look! 

There are no before/after pictures nor % on the FaceLube website, because we don't like fine-print. Ever notice how ads that entice you to buy a skin care product by touting the high % of improvement before/after usually come with some fine print? And that fine print is always some blurb about how your individual results may vary. 

FaceLube products are formulated with top-notch and clinically proven anti-aging ingredients from world class labs and manufacturing partners. So yes, FaceLube® could very easily capitalize on these trials, and we could pepper our ads with words like "magic", "miracle", "instant results", "look 10 years younger" and throw in some airbrushed models while we're at it. But we choose not to - because our customers deserve better than fine-print. At the end of the day, the only results (%) that matter are yours! 

FaceLube doesn't cut corners. Cutting corners is a bad idea for car repairs and just as bad for men's grooming, men's skin care and men's face creams in general. If you depend on your vehicle to get around, or if face-to-face contact with people is an important part of your life style, than it's important to be selective about what you use on your face.

FaceLube works with world-class manufacturing partners to bring you the best in men's skin care and men's grooming products. We have an unparalleled emphasis on credentials and our manufacturing partners must first demonstrate a history of exceptionally high standard of innovation, quality, backed by decades of experience. As a result, our ingredient suppliers, R&D laboratories, and manufacturing facilities are some of the most respected in the industry and best kept secrets from the public. Some of our manufacturing partners are the same people behind some of the world's most well known, trusted and prestigious brands. The same brands that you will find at department stores, specialty stores, physician offices, high-end resorts, spas and luxury hotels. 

FaceLube's American manufacturers are FDA registered and cGMP facilities. FaceLube's Western European manufacturers are ISO certified and/or multi-year prestigious industry award winners. cGMP and ISO are internationally recognized quality compliance systems that ensure the highest standards in manufacturing. 

Did you know that one of America's best known lubricant oil companies started out in a bathtub? FaceLube applauds this remarkable achievement and true testament to American ingenuity. If you were among the company's earliest customers, your car probably didn't mind either. However, the kitchen sink equivalent with its subjective sanitary conditions is no place for high performance men's grooming, men's skin care and anti-aging products. 

Next time you find yourself tempted by the claims of an unknown brand, or ads that tout the exclusivity, uniqueness of the product and how that make it desirable to manufacture it by hand in small batches, picture it in your mind and apply common sense. 

For another example of the care that FaceLube takes with the brands we represent, look no further than the packaging. FaceLube demands sealed containers over open jars and dropper bottles to lessen the risk of oxidation and contamination. FaceLube opted for treatment style bottles rather than tubes, because we believe that products of unparalleled quality should also be easy to use. FaceLube is committed to your safety. Each bottle is security sealed for your protection - you wouldn't want your mechanic to put used parts on your trusted ride, so why risk taking home a product someone else may have already sampled. 

This attention to detail takes a chunk out of our profit margin, but FaceLube believes that You, the Customer, are worth it. 

Shopping for face care products shouldn't be a daunting task. However, there are so many brands, so many claims, and even worse, a dizzying array of different names for products that essentially do the same thing, it is a hassle sorting through it all, a waste of time and tries the patience of even the most leisure-able personality.

No more sorting through labels on retail shelves, no more navigating through endless aisles and web pages of bottles, jars and tubes each with their own claims, no more pressure sale at beauty counters when you'd rather be left alone, and finally, no more fishing for the best men's skin care and grooming products in the women's beauty section.

Let FaceLube cut through the confusion and make the choice easy for you. FaceLube brings you exceptional value for your money in advanced anti-aging technology, made by world class manufacturers with solid credentials earned through decades of commitment to quality, innovation and service. 

What's your motivation for entrusting your ride to the store where you take your vehicle in for service? For some, only the dealership will do. Others find safety in numbers and opt for well known national chains. And then there are independent centers that appeal to the community conscious car owner. Regardless of your style, it's still the people in these centers and the confidence they instill by getting the job done right and under budget the first time that really matters. 

FaceLube keeps a careful eye on new anti-aging break-through's in skin care for men and introduces them through our stores only when we have confidence in the technology. The latest and newest may not be the best for you. For FaceLube, it's not about rushing the latest technology in men's skincare and anti-aging to our customers, it's about finding the right balance. It's like the first year of a new model vehicle, it's not always the smart buy, because the manufacturer hasn't had the time to gain meaningful feedback to work out the bugs. When it comes to new anti-aging in men's skin care technology, don't volunteer your face to help work out someone else's bugs. 

The name FaceLube pays homage to our automotive origins. FaceLube's parent company has strong ties to the 'fast lube' industry. Fast lubes are facilities across the country where vehicle owners routinely get their cars' oil changed and chassis lubed. Our flagship brand FaceLube comes in a box that looks like a motor oil bottle. Read more about our origins and the woman behind FaceLube here. 

FaceLube is not an on-line store or virtual business at all. FaceLube is in fact very brick and mortar. FaceLube's exclusive distributor in the USA is a Los Angeles based equipment manufacturer and long-time vendor to many top names in the automotive industry for over 20 years - the same world class brands that you have come to trust with your ride. Give us a call anytime. You won't get an outsourced call center, just friendly and helpful customer service people, right here at FaceLube.