Anyone can get ingrown hair, but if you are a man with curly hair then you are more likely to get them. Your hair tip curls back into the skin and grows inside the skin causing painful rashes.
During shaving you may get pain and a pimple like bump known as razor bumps appear. They may wrongly be confused with oil gland infection of the hair follicles. Wrong methods of shaving, tweeting or waxing can also sometimes cause ingrown hair.
Mostly ingrown hair appear on the cheeks, neck and head. Most people go to a spa professionals to remove ingrown hair, but you can do it at home yourself with these simple remedies.
5 Home Remedies for Removal of Ingrown Hair
There are two main aspects that require due consideration before deciding to remove ingrown hair. One is the location of ingrown hair and the other is to find out if the area is infected or not.
1. Style Change
if you have recurring ingrown hair in the neck area, then it is most likely due to your tight fit collars of the shirt. The normally growing hair doesn't get free space to come out of the skin due to pressure from the collar.
It curls and the tip gets back in the skin causing ingrown hair. Change your shirt collar size at least half a notch up. For example, if you normally wear 16 collar size then shift to 16 1/2 size.
2. Warm up Skin and Tweeze
To make the skin soft before pluckinking the hair tip is important for pain free removal of ingrown hair. Warm up the skin with hot compress or dabbing hot water in the affected area to soften the skin.
Slowly pluck the hair tip out with a pin tweezer. Remember the objective is to remove the hair tip from the skin and not to remove the hair from the root. Removing the hair from the root can be painful.
3. Change Shaving Blades
If you have ingrown hair then don't shave with multiple blade razor. The extra blades that usually provide much smoother and deeper shave can cause pain and inflammation in the ingrown hair.
Turn back to single blade razor. In addition to changing the blade style, make sure that you shave the direction of your shave same at every shave.
4. Baking Soda
Use of baking soda on a regular basis will prevent ingrown hair, but if you already have it, then it will also make it easy to remove the hair tip from the skin.
Make a concentrated solution of baking soda in water. Its consistency should be thinner than a paste. Dab it on the affected skin and the skin around it.
You can apply it on the entire face if you want because baking soda is anti inflammatory and soothing to the skin. It will remove dirt and other impurities from your skin. Leave it on the skin for 10 minutes and then wash your face with warm water.
Since baking soda granules will exfoliate dead skin over the ingrown hair, it will be easy to tweeze the hair tip out of the skin.
5. Sugar Scrub
This is very useful when dead skin makes a bump on ingrown hair. Add coconut oil to sugar to make it a liquid base for sugar. Rub the mix on the affected area in circulatory motion to exfoliate dead skin.
This should expose the ingrown hair. Rub a little bit of honey on the scrubbed area before tweeting the ingrown hair.