Treating ingrown hairs doesn’t just mean pulling them out. You can prevent them before they appear or stop them in their tracks with a little help. Especially formulated products deeply exfoliate allowing the hair to release and moisturize the skin, making it more pliable.
Be sure to read all instructions before use to prevent unsafe reactions. Beware if you already use powerful exfoliators like glycolic products or if you're allergic to aspirin, as many of the products contain it.
Be sure to read all instructions before use to prevent unsafe reactions. Beware if you already use powerful exfoliators like glycolic products or if you're allergic to aspirin, as many of the products contain it.
1. The Art of Shaving Ingrown Hair Night Cream
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One of the many wonderful products from a company that specializes in getting a phenomenal shave, it goes on right before bed for one to four weeks until ingrown hairs are cleared. Made in part with African shea butter and jojoba oil to moisturize and white willow bark to exfoliate skin and release trapped hair.
2. Shobha Ingrown Relief Lotion
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Free of parabens, color and artificial fragrance. The hair removal experts at Shobha created this ingrown relief lotion to help fight ingrown hairs before they appear or zap them away. Made with Vitamin a, chamomile and tea tree oil to help exfoliate, moisturize and soothe skin. Use daily for to prevent ingrown hairs or stop small bumps, or twice per day for more severe ingrown hair issues (read review).
3. PrinceReigns Ingrown Relief Serum
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Model Gisele Bundchen boasts this product as one of her helpers for bump-free skin at swimsuit photo shoots. The serum calms, softens and moisturizes skin, helping the hair follicle to point out of skin.
4. The Art of Shaving Ingrown Hair Night Cream for Women
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Have you ever smelled real rose essential oil? More than just a beautiful aroma, rose has soothing and therapeutic properties for the skin. Used every night after shaving for two to four weeks, the rose and other oils like jojoba and olive hydrate skin while the exfoliating action of white willow bark helps release trapped hair.
5. MiN Solution 2 Rollerball
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Applied with a very cool German engineered rollerball containing organic spearmint to clear congested skin, aspirin to exfoliate and propolyene glycol to help fight infection. Applied just before shaving it allows for a closer shave while helping hair to stand more upright, creating blunter ends, preventing hair from growing into skin. Can also be used after the redness and bumps rears their ugliness, if they do happen to appear.
6. Whish Flawless Ingrown Hair Serum
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Free of parabens and sulfates, but made with natural and organic ingredients. White willow bark extract fights inflammation, wheat germ extract soothes skin and yeast extract regenerates. Works fast in ridding pesky bumps and redness and has a great scent. Read more about this product that got five stars in our review.
7. Tend Skin Liquid
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Customer’s Choice Best of Folica, and widely sold at salons and spas. The formula was accidentally discovered when a dentist gave his patient pain reliever that cleared up his razor bumps. Used for ridding and prevent ingrown hairs, razor bumps and razor burn.
8. Home Remedies for Treating Ingrown Hairs
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You can save a lot of buying over buying retail products and whip up your own with some ingredients that you probably already have in your cupboard like salt, sugar and aspirin. Aspirin? Yes...you'll see why most retail products for fighting ingrown hairs contain it.
