How do you treat an in grown hair?

Answer 1

The best way to stop ingrown hairs it is not to do anything that gives you ingrown hairs. Save your money on all the treatments AFTER you get ingrown hairs.

If you wet shave with any straight edge razor blade or you rip the hair out by waxing, sugaring, threading or by using an epilator, you stand a good chance of getting painful. ugly ingrown hairs.

Yanking the hair out sometimes breaks the hair off at skin level only to have it grow downwards and into the skin where it becomes infected.

When you wet shave the razor blade slices the end of the hair diagonally as the blade passes over the skin and the tin end of the uncut hair bends downwards and grows back into the skin.

Waxing, threading, epilators are painful as they pull the hairs out by their roots. This leaves a hole in the skin where the hair once grew and this can fill up with bacteria like staphylococcus aureus and cause painful infections and again permanent damage. Waxing can also break off the hair at skin level and this causes ugly and painful ingrown hairs under the skin.

See http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2010-02-11/news/os-brazilian-wax-woman-files-lawsuit-20100210_1_wax-and-cloth-mary-beth-donahue-attorneys-last-year

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/salon-sued-over-botched-bikini-wax-allegations-2454093.html

In my opinion, with many years of professional hair removal experience, the best way to remove unwanted hair is to shave dry using an electric personal shaver like the Bare It All see www.BestBodyShaver.com. You will get "smooth as waxing" skin in a matter of moments at home, and the cost at about 3 cents per shave is the cheapest method anywhere. No itching, no rash, no shaver burn and no ingrown hairs.

Please note that an electric personal shaver like the all-in-one Bare It All personal shaver and bikini trimmer, is not the same as the wet blade razor which many people use and complain about. The razor blade scrapes away the skin as well as the hair and this is when you get nicks, cuts, ingrown hairs and the shaving rash that everyone dreads. Never wet shave "south of the border" as the skin there is much thinner there and much more sensitive than on the face. You should never use any shaver or razor intended for the face, on your body. The skin "south of the border" is not the same as on the face.

As for the myth that shaved hairs grows back thicker and faster, many people believe this but it is biologically impossible. See what a Mayo Clinic doctor says at http://www.bestbodyshaver.com/shaving-myths

As for other hair removal methods you should never use any depilatory creme or gel. All hair removal cremes, sprays and gels contain harsh chemicals to attack and dissolve the hair protein. However these caustic chemicals like sodium thioglycolate, also attack the skin and burn and sometimes permanently discolor the skin and cause dryness. The FDA makes manufacturers put a watered down warning in small print on every container, which sadly no one reads. See this review on Amazon. http://io9.com/5906465/the-most-alarming-amazon-reviews-ever

Laser procedures are not permanent and the FDA prohibits anyone from saying otherwise. Laser can burn the skin as well as hair, it is not suitable for all skin and hair types, takes several procedures to do the job, is as enjoyable as having hot needles stuck in you, can also cause permanent skin dryness and discoloration in a laser procedure. The price tag for laser hair removal is equally painful. http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/fashion-beauty/Follicle+folly/6560816/story.html

The home laser sets are usually IPL (Intense Pulsed Light) but these are made to be so weak so no one gets hurt, that they really are not that helpful.

If you find this information helpful pass it on to others that do not yet know about safe hair removal methods.