Ingrown Hair Part 2: The Treatment

Now that you know what causes ingrown hairs, the next step is eliminating them: Let's start with what not to do. We've seen some scary examples of removing ingrown hairs using tweezers and needles to pluck hairs from the skin. Um, ouch? Please don't remove an ingrown hair this way! Picking and plucking at an ingrown hair can lead to skin damage, scarring and inflammation around the area.

The safest method for ingrown hair removal at home is exfoliation. Bliss Ingrown Eliminating Pads address all aspects of optimal ingrown hair treatment. These spa-tested ingrown hair eliminators come in a jar of 50 pre-soaked pads. Just grab and wipe over the ingrown hairs. You can even use them between hair removal sessions to prevent ingrown hairs from rearing their ugly little heads in the first place. Bliss Ingrown Eliminating Pads contain glycolic and salicylic acids, which provide the exfoliating action to remove dead skin cells and clear a path for the ingrown hairs to grow out of the skin. Salicylic acid also has both cleansing and anti-inflammatory properties.

What makes Bliss Ingrown Eliminating Pads special is it's Japanese Green Tea extracts. A unique, advanced action ingredient that soothes and eliminates ingrown hairs. Additional soothing agents include: oat extracts, lavender extracts and witch hazel extracts which provide superior skin calming, healing and anti-inflammatory affects that treat ingrown hairs.

Ingrown Hair Part 1: The Cause

What Causes an Ingrown Hair?

An ingrown hair is an irritated red bump that appears shortly after hair removal. An ingrown hair occurs when new hair growth gets trapped beneath the skin surface and begins to grow "into" the skin rather than "out of" the skin (thus the name ingrown hair). Bacteria are often trapped in the hair follicle, which causes inflammation, leaving the skin with red, painful, irritated bumps, which are commonly known as ingrown hairs.



Any kind of hair removal can leave skin vulnerable to an ingrown hair. Hair removal such as waxing triggers the body to heal, so new skin cells tend to form over the hair follicle opening, trapping the new hair as it begins to emerge. The new hair can't "get out," so it grows "in," causing an ingrown hair. Coarse, curly and thick hair is most prone to ingrown hairs. For women, this means ingrown hairs around the bikini area, for men, ingrown hairs occur around the beard area. People with darker skin tones also tend to be more prone to ingrown hairs, because of hair texture. Both men and women suffer from the ugly plight of ingrown hair; however, you no longer have to.


Tomorrow, I'll discuss how you can prevent and rid yourself of ingrown hairs in my Part 2 - The Treatment post.

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