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Causes Of Ingrown Hair

Shaving, Tight Clothes & Dry Skin


The causes of ingrown hair are varied. All hair removal methods causes the skin to become irritated and the hair follicles distorted. The follicle can even become infected.


Causes of ingrown hair - closeup photo of skin The follicle can become infected by fungus or bacteria, leading to folliculitis.

This mostly mean medical intervention.

A lot of sitting also aggravates the condition, especially at the groin area, back of thighs and buttocks.

The continuous rubbing of a shirt on the throat and at the back of the neck is another culprit.

If you follow this link you can see a number of folliculitis pictures about shallow as well as infections deep in the follicles.





Shaving is the main cause

Shaving Is Main Causes Of Ingrown Hair Don't shave too closely. Don't pull the skin too tight while shaving.

The hair will snap back into the skin, because is has been cut lower than skin level.

The top layer, or epidermis, of the skin always gets shaven off.

Quite often the skin form scabs while healing after being irritated by shaving.

The scabs very often cover the natural follicle opening in the skin where the hair is supposed to leave the skin.

The presence of the scab, or layer of skin, forces the hair to grow out at an unnatural angle.


Tight clothing causes ingrown hair

The continuous irritation caused by the shafing of tight clothing closely follows shaving as causes of ingrown hair. The legs are affected the most.

Ingrown pubic hair is fast catching up with the legs. The reason is the increasing popularity of brazilian waxing and bikini area shaving. Both are causes of ingrown hair.

Waxing bumps and shaving bumps are quite common. Do you have any tips, techniques or products you would like to share about male body shaving?


Hard, dry skin is another cause

Treat causes of ingrown hair with Aqueous Cream Another one of the causes of ingrown hair is hard, dry skin.

The skin can become dry and hardened when it isn't moisturised to keep it soft.

A super way to get rid of hard, dry skin is to perform dry skin brushing as often as you can.

Stop using after shave lotions with an alcohol base, because it dries out the skin.

Rather use a rich, moisturising, fragrance free cream.

You simply can't go wrong if you use aqueous cream.

The skin reacts to continuous irritation of shaving and shafing of clothes by becoming coarser and drier to protect itself.

The soft tipped epilated hair sometimes has trouble pushing through the small follicle opening of the hardened skin.

The result is quite often an ingrown hair.


Which hair removal methods causes it?

All the hair removal methods can and do cause ingrown hair. The hair follicles become irritated and distorted. That can lead to ingrown hair.


Ingrown hair prevention tips

Would you like to get some tips on how to prevent ingrown hair? Try wearing looser pants, underwear or shorts, to see if the problem resolves itself.

Make sure no clothing will irritate the already sensitive skin by shafing against it all day long.


Home treatment for ingrown hair

There are quite a lot of things you can do to treat your ingrown hair at home.

Most of the ingredients for the ingrown hair home remedies will already be in either the kitchen or the medicine cabinet.

You must just learn how to put it to good use!


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