Top 10 Best Ways to Get Rid of Ingrown Hairs on Your Legs

Every woman, and man, loves smoothly shaven legs. However, if you are prone to ingrown hairs on the legs, this could mean that shaving becomes quite painful and not as smooth as you would like for it to be. It may also send you to the doctor if the ingrown hair swells up and a major infection sets into it. Hopefully, before it gets to that point, here are the top 10 best ways to get rid of ingrown hairs on legs to help your legs stay a little smoother.

1. Avoid Close Shaves

Avoid shaving close to the skin and against the grain of the hair or avoid shaving certain ingrown hair prone areas completely. The thing that causes ingrown hair problems on your legs is because when you shave you eliminate the hair completely above the skin. It takes it down below the skins surface and this is when you feel the smoothest. If you leave slight stubble instead the hair will be guaranteed to grow through the top layers of skin and not curve back into the pore. This eliminates the potential for trouble with ingrown hairs.

 

2. Moisturize before You Shave

If you are prone to ingrown hairs, use a moisturizer or wet sponge to soak the legs before you start shaving. If you take the extra time to do this it will soften hair as well as the skin to make it easier for the hair to grow back. It works by ensuring the shaved hairs are more rounded.

3. Prevention Works Best

Be sure to use an antiseptic or a topical solution to areas that are prone to ingrown hairs. You may also want to avoid tight clothes on that area because the tight clothes may make it harder for the stubble to come through the skin properly. All it takes is one tiny stubble of hair to turn and go the wrong direction and you will end up with a potential ingrown hair in that area.

4. Tweeze It.

Tweezers can pull the hair out if you are able to see it. This method will work best if you combine it with the compresses in order to bring it to the surface. You may also need to use a needle if it comes to the surface but it is still under a layer of skin.

5. Warm Compress

This method softens skin and allows the hair to come to the surface where you may be able to get to it or it may just come out naturally due to the softened skin and cleaner pores. If after ten minutes or so you still cannot see the hair, you may need to see a doctor to get help.

6. Tooth Paste

It sounds a little weird but tooth paste has many purposes that go far beyond fresh breath and white teeth. Most people do not realize that it can work to reduce pimples as well as ingrown hairs on your legs. Just dab a little on and it will dry up the infection, clean the pore and help the ingrown hair find its way out.

7. Acne Medication

An ingrown hair on your legs works about the same as a pimple on your face, especially if there is a little pus around the hair follicle. Benzoyl peroxide and salicylic acid both work to remove swelling which may allow the hair to grow out instead of continue to grow into the skin.

8. Exfoliate using Sugar

Sugar works the same as the salt to remove dead skin cells and other stuff that may clog pores so that the hair cannot come out freely. Just mix it with water or olive oil and your skin will be much smoother because of the extra moisture.

9. Exfoliate using Salt

Mix a little salt into your water then scrub your legs gently. The rocks in the salt will dig in slightly so that all of the dirt, oil and dead skin will let the hair come free. It is not an overnight solution, but some people feel that salt also has the ability to heal.

10. Major Ingrown Issues

If you already have an ingrown hair that is swollen, filled with infection, and painful; your only real option may be a doctor or a dermatologist. For the infection to go away, you must get the hair out. By the time it is really swollen, it may mean a small incision is the only way to help it come out.