Ingrown Hairs due to Shaving

I’ve found that shaving makes it worse for me. I wax and have found that helps resolve it.

Epilating, waxing or sugaring is your best bet! When I go for a waxing they always advice me to not shave and to continue waxing each month as shaving is the main cause of ingrown hairs!

Hair removal creams are great just be careful that you don’t get a reaction to it, do it the night before at least !

I had horrible ingrown hair issues in my underarms a few months back – an issue I attribute to quickly shaving & not paying enough attention.

So I ditched the razor & went back to my usual hair removal creams, and the problem resolved.

I also bought a product Nads make that both helps resolve current ingrown hairs, and helps reduce future ones. It’s very good
http://www.beautyheaven.com.au/body-health/hair-removal/5188-nads-ingrow-solution

Veet has an ingrown hair cream you could try and use 🙂

i also suffer this problem, it doesn’t affect me as much as it dose to you. I use a scrub on my legs everyday to try and lift the hairs and get rid of dead skin.

Exfoliating using body scrubs or exfoliating gloves or dry body brushing helps.

Try standing in the shower for a couple minutes with hot/warm water on. This will open your hair follicles/pores and will make it more easier to shave then if you’re cold. Exfoliating should be doing causing your ingrown hairs and neither should moisturising . Try not to shave over your ingrown hairs and instead treat them first by going to a doctor to take them out or putting a cream on them (that is for ingrown hairs) Apply a moisturising shaving cream or a sensitive soap and remember to rinse your blade after every stroke. Try applying a cold washcloth afterwards to soothe the area and don’t shave too close too often, let it grow out, it will make it easier to cut. 🙂

I’ve got uncommonly tough skin, so I suffer ingrown a lot. I find that epilating (or waxing if you prefer) minimises the problem. I still get ingrown hairs, but because the regrowth takes a few weeks to show, I’m not getting new ones constantly . When I was shaving, I constantly had little sores from the previous shave’s ingrowns & the ones from the shave before that. I always looked scabby & gross.

If you continue to shave, I find using Cetaphil (or regular unfragranced sorbolene) as shaving foam helps. After shaving, you just rinse the stubble off, you don’t have to wash off the Cetaphil too carefully, it’s OK left on the skin. If you put lotion on, make sure it’s unfragranced too.

Sorry to hear about your shaving woes! There really is no one-for-all fix when it comes to this so I’m just going to list what I can think of and hopefully you find something helpful in there:

-Wet your skin with warm/hot water before shaving and apply a shaving gel or cream.
-Shave in the same direction your hair is growing.
-Use as few strokes of the razor as possible. That lessens the chance of a hair slipping into your skin. Also rinse the blade with water after every stroke.
-Apply a cool washcloth to your skin after you shave to reduce irritation.
-You can buy ingrown hair products to prevent/treat them. I have one called Bump eRaiser that I got cheap, but there are plenty of others on the market if you give it a google (Bump eRaiser should be in most chemists though).

I’d also suggest trying a different hair removal method if nothing helps, something else might go easier. If you don’t like the idea of waxing maybe try a hair removal cream? You can get some that don’t smell so nasty (Veet Suprem’ Essence is a good one) but your results may vary. Epilating may also be an option, though it can hurt for a start. Picking the right removal method can be tricky but if nothing you try gets you better results I really don’t think shaving is for you. You can also get antibiotics for ingrown hairs depending on how serious yours get (but that is treatment, not prevention).

Good luck and hope this helps!