Lydia’s Got Ingrown Hair Issues:
After I wax my legs and hands, there is a relapse of ingrown hair on my waxed skin. It looks terrible and I have tried treating ,but nothing is working out. Does scrubbing help ? or is there any remedy to cure this skin problem
The Right Brain Recommends An Anti-inflammatory:
It sounds like you might have a case of folliculitis, a condition in which your hair follicle becomes inflamed. Waxing can irritate the hair follicle which causes dead cells to build up at the site of the irritation and form small pus containing pockets. This blockage can trap the hair as it tries to grow out of the follicle and poof! you`ve got an ingrown hair. Scrubbing will only make things worse so DON’T! In fact, you need to give your follicles a rest for a while until the inflammation dies down.
While we’ve never tested them, we have heard good things about the Tendskin product and Paula’s Choice Skin Relief. They both use aspirin, an proven anti-inflammatory, to soothe your skin. If you have to remove more hair, shave instead of waxing because that’s less irritating to the follicle. (By the way, you can go here to see our original post on this subject and click through to see some really disturbing pictures of Follicles Gone Wild. But don’t say we didn’t warn you!)
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There’s a recipe for homemade ‘Tendskin’ on a lot of sites on the net:
http://www.makeuptalk.com/forums/f12/homemade-tendskin-recipe-19113.html
have you seen bikinikitty.com? they have products (no animals ingredients) that claim to rid ingrown hairs.
what’s your opinion, brains?
I swear by Guinot Epil Confort (from the beauty salon) – apply it for the first few days after waxing and you get no ingrowns – way more effective than scrubbing.
magic ingredient is bulbane, apparently – any idea what this is?
Not a fan of Tendskin – it’s pretty much just rubbing alcohol. Interested in trying Paula’s product though.
I have tried just about everything for my ingrown hairs and so far no luck on the perfect product but I had never heard of the use of anti-inflammatory products, I will give it a try thanks.
Wouldn’t it make sense to slough off the dead skin cells so that the hair can grow out and not back into the skin. Every waxing website will tell you to exfoliate a few days after getting waxed.