Hi ladies,
I tweeze the hair on my chin every alternate day....and now I have horrible ingrown hairs all over.I've literally scarred my chin and neck trying to tweeze those hairs.....do U know of anything that can prevent ingrown hairs.I'm really fed up with this hair issue... as if TTC wasn't enough,any help an advise would b appreciated.I'm not ready for lasers yet bcz of financial issues.Please help.
Apricot Scrub from St. Ives works great, i use for my legs durning shorts season
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I have the same problem. The bumps of my ingrown hairs are actually more obvious than the hairs themselves.
Other than exfoliating the only thing I can suggest is that you make sure your hands and the tweezers are clean. Before tweezing, I just wash my hands and dip the tweezers in some disinfectant. If I am scrupulous it seems to work.
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You can exfoliate and still get ingrown hairs. The fact that you are tweezing the hairs on your chins aggravates the skins and that will cause your skin to react negatively no matter if you exfoliate or keep it extremely clean. I found that out from experience.
The more you tweeze the sensitive area of your face called your chin the more it is going to be aggravated from the pulling and the tweezing. I don't tweeze hardly at all any more and it has made a lot of difference. No ingrowns at all.
I have to agree with Penguin--the more you do, the worse it gets. I used to pluck constantly and my chin and neck were a mess because of it. When I decided to get laser and had to grow it out, I was forced to shave. That cleared up the ingrown hair problem. Not to mention, it was just quicker! However, I did find TendSkin to be somewhat helpful some of the time. You might try that.
Thanks for replying.I exfoliate regularly and I too use St Ives apricot scrub...but its been of no use.Is there anything else I can do?
When I was getting laser treatments, the woman suggested using moisturizer to prevent ingrown hairs. She suggested that I find something that does not contain mineral oil. I have found most moisturizers for sensative skin are mineral oil-free. Maybe that in combo with the exfoliating will help. I know when my skin is irritated from shaving, it calms it.
tweezing is really, in my experience, not a good hair removal method unless you are only removing a couple of hairs total per week. it distorts the hair follicle, even when you do it the "right" way, by pulling the hair in the direction which it drows. it traumatizes the hair follicle, and it makes it grow back crooked, therefore the hair gets trapped beneath the skin when it grows back.
i used to tweeze my chin, and i had a bad problem with ingrown hairs, and it made my hair growth problem seem even worse, when really my problem has never been very severe. what has worked for me is electrolysis... it is not expensive - much cheaper than laser treatments. i haven't had an ingrown hair since, and i am nearly hair-free.
you might want to try a loofah sponge, u can't ge one in ur local drugstore, just wet it with warm water and gently scrub your face w/ it. that should help you get rid of the ingrown hairs on the surface at least.
i went through what you're going through now, and i had a lot of ingrown hair. i would reccomend that you just shave instead, at least it won't cause the ingrown hairs. i wish i had never used tweezers, at least then i wouldn't have had the ingrown hairs.
best of luck
I don't have this issue on my face, but on my legs. It's wierd. Everytime I wax my legs, about half of the hairs will grow in just under the surface. It's not bumpy or inflamed or anything; just looks like normal hair. Except when I shave, it's all still there under the skin. So then I have to scratch each one out one by one. So annoying! And then I can't wear shorts cuz I've picked at my legs. It sucks cuz I love leg waxing except for this problem. Do you think using a scrub on my legs would help?
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