Is selling razors, shaving cream, shampoo that carries pictures of unveiled women or men, as well as alcoholic perfumes, forbidden in Islamic law?
There is no harm in selling tools that may be used for permissible or prohibited purposes, such as tools for shaving beards, by analogy with the permissibility of selling silk to men despite the possibility of its prohibited use. As for selling soap and detergents that have pictures of women on their packaging, there is no objection to it due to widespread affliction (umum al-balwa), and because these pictures are humiliated and removed, and the intention is to sell the substance, not the picture. However, it is preferable to obliterate the pictures if possible. As for alcoholic perfumes, the ruling on selling them has been clarified in a previous .
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