About Face: The Best Toners for Men With Oily and Combination Skin

While washing your face is a foundational step in any grooming routine, there’s absolutely more we all can be doing to ensure the health, longevity and good looks of our skin. If you have oily or combination skin, one of those things is incorporating a good facial toner into your regimen.

Facial toners help to further cleanse and moisturize your face by actively balancing the pH levels of your skin. When your skin is balanced, it’ll be less prone to the oiliness that causes acne, irritation and other infections. It also ensures your face is more vibrant and helps your skin’s texture look smoother. Think of it as an extra boost: it helps your skin get cleaner, clearer and better-looking with every swipe.

If you’ve been taking good care of your skin, adding a toner will only serve to help keep your skin healthy over the long haul. Whether you’re looking for a new option or you’ve never used a toner before, we’ve found four of the best options to make sure you’re putting your best face forward—literally.

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The Best Shirt Hangers for Men Who Actually Like Their Shirts

If you have a selection of shirts you love in your closet, you should store them on hangers that are worthy of them—and, to be clear, that means you should put as much thought into acquiring them as you did on the shirts themselves. Investing in upgraded shirt hangers is a fast and easy way to extend the life of your clothing by ensuring your shirts, you know, actually hang correctly.

Simple swaps, like opting for a hanger constructed from fabric-covered plastic or wood, can actually extend the life of your clothing considerably. If you use a material that actually grips the fabric of a shirt, you’ll prevent them from slipping off and getting crushed on the floor of your closet. And having sufficiently wide hangers will keep your shoulders supported and can help the rest of your shirt stay smooth and free of wrinkles.

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The Best Barware Sets to Make Craft Cocktails From Home

Sure, there’s a time and a place for tossing vodka and orange juice into a glass and calling it a day, but every now you might want to get a little more inventive. Something a little more… crafty, perhaps. If you’re considering making any sort of craft cocktail, you’re going to need some barware.

As the name suggests, barware are the tools that allow professional bartenders mix those stunning craft cocktails. The right set will allow you to create more involved concoctions—from an Old Fashioned to a Martini—with a professional twist, right from the comfort of your home.

Most barware sets include a jigger to measure out ingredients, a shaker to put them into, a bar spoon for stirring and a strainer. Various sets will add more specialized pieces, but the fundamentals remain the same. Now, you just need some practice to make that Don Draper-worthy Old Fashioned. Here are four of our favorite sets to get you started.

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The Best Hangers for Your Suits

A well-made suit will last you a lifetime—if you care for it properly. And no amount of careful cleaning will make up for years of hanging a sharply tailored jacket and trousers on a hanger that’s not built to support them. This is why it’s just as important to choose the right hanger for a suit as it is to choose the right shirt and other accessories to wear with it.

Suit hangers with wide shoulders are a simple and effective way to help your jackets maintain their shape when you’re not wearing them. After all, you spend more time out of your suits than in them, so using a supportive, structured hanger will only help increase its lifespan. And beyond its practicality, these hangers, typically found cut from wood, are a stylish way to both organize your closet and make it look more like your favorite menswear store than a catchall for the things you don’t want on display.

Help keep in the best shape possible with our choices for best suit hangers, below.

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The Best Restaurant-Quality Cookware Sets

You might have heard the saying “a poor craftsman blames his tools” once or twice before. While it comes in handy whenever someone blames the bat for a strikeout, that philosophy is a little different when it comes to cookware. Having great pots and pans won’t cover up sub-par knife skills, but they can help make sure your steaks and sauces get just the right amount of sizzle.

While they can seem like a big investment initially, purchasing a restaurant-quality cookware set means you’ll have highly functional—and great looking—skillets and saucepans for years to come. But with so many options on the market, it can be hard to separate the ones that can actually sustain a lot of use from the ones that merely look like they’re built for high-pressure environments. Here, a handful of well-made and most comprehensive cookware sets that’ll stand up to almost any kitchen task. The only missing ingredient is you.

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The Best Highball Glasses for Your Home Cocktail Bar

Few end-of-day rituals are more relaxing than coming home after a long day and sitting down with your favorite cocktail. And the glassware you choose may be nearly as important to the experience as the drink itself. If you’re mixing any two ingredients together, you should be reaching for a highball glass. As evidenced by its name, the taller and more cylinder-shaped glass allows for a good balance of ice, spirit and juice. Perfect for drinks like a Bloody Mary, Gin & Tonic, Mojito and more, highball glasses will give your cocktail the presentation it deserves.

Even better, you don’t have to sacrifice style for substance when it comes to choosing the right highball glass. Below, four Amazon options that will both showcase your home mixology skills and make your favorite cocktail as tasty as ever.

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The Best Rocks Glasses for Whiskey Lovers

In recent years, whiskey aficionados have achieved the kind of stature more often associated with oenophiles. These spirits obsessives are as passionate about their favorite small-batch bourbons and special cask-finish scotches as wine lovers are about the best Napa Cabernets. And like their wine-sipping cousins, serious whiskey collectors understand that premium glassware can elevate the experience. Our favorite whiskey sippers are rocks or double-Old Fashioned glasses.

Rocks glasses have wide rims to allow room for the rocks, aka the ice. And if you’re partial to a slow melting cube so too much water doesn’t dilute your dram, you’ll want to be sure one of those giant rounds of ice can fit into the glass. If you take your bourbon neat, the wide rim allows for the gentle and more delicious aromas to waft out. Narrower rims can concentrate the scent of alcohol, which can shift the whole experience of drinking a cask-strength beauty from delicious to downright unpleasant.

And if you’re going to buy new barware, make it worthy of your best bottles. That Macallan 18 needs something respectable. The four we’ve highlighted here should live up to it nicely.

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The Best Cocktail Shakers to Make Bar-Quality Drinks

Anyone who’s ever stepped foot into a bar knows the unmistakable sound of a cocktail shaker. The percussive, locomotive-like sound signals that you’re just a few moments away from enjoying a refreshing drink that’s been handcrafted for you. That shake and, more importantly, the cocktail it presages don’t have to be limited to your favorite bar. A cocktail shaker can be the perfect way to elevate your cocktails from home.

Shaking helps to better mix, dilute and chill your drink and that, in turn, leads to an overall better cocktail. With these factors in mind, here are four shakers that will instantly make your drinks taste better while bringing the bar experience that much closer to home.

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