By incorrectly removing hair at home, you may face the problem of ingrown hair. In this case, with the removal of the hair, some of it can remain under the skin, which can cause such unpleasant phenomena, such as redness, itching and inflammation.
Hair, which has grown under the skin, damages the inner layer of the skin, fatty subcutaneous tissue and thereby delivers serious problems to the body. Gradually, this process can develop into an inflammatory, and if completely run - into suppuration. How to remove hair that is ingrown into the skin?
If during the procedure of depilation under the skin there is a part of the hair, then for painless removal it is best to consult a beautician. If, for one reason or another, you want to do it yourself, then first of all you need to follow the rules of personal hygiene.
Carefully, with soap, wash your hands, take tweezers and a needle, gently rub them with alcohol. After that, lift the hair with a needle and use tweezers to pull it out. The resulting wound wipe with alcohol, then grease with zinc or salicylic ointment.
If something went wrong while trying to self-remove the hair and later signs of inflamed skin showed up, you can try various folk remedies for combating ingrown hair, which are usually quite effective in these cases.
Roasted onions from ingrown hairs
Fresh baked onion in the oven, then cut in half. One of the halves should be applied to the affected area of the skin with a cut, bandage. After about four hours, unbind, cut off the part that has come into contact with the skin and bandage back. It is necessary to change the bandage every four hours until the inflammation completely passes. In most cases, one bulb is enough for this.
Another bulb can be baked in a dough or boiled in milk, then stretch and apply to the affected area of the skin as a compress. Compress should also be applied in the same way until it is completely cured.
At home, you can make an ointment. To do this, you need to grind a tablespoon of honey, a baked onion, a teaspoon of flour. The resulting mixture needs to be lubricated with the place where the hair has grown, at least 4 times a day.
You can also bake baked onions with laundry soap (grated) in a ratio of two to one and apply the mixture to the damaged areas. This must be done at least five times a day. This remedy is very effective, quickly removes inflammation.
Treatment with aloe
Also, one of the effective remedies for alleviating inflammation that has arisen from ingrown hair is aloe.
At the plant cut the largest bottom sheet, carefully wash it in running water and rastolkute in small gruel. After that, place it on the affected area and press it with a bandage. Change the bandage every day, until the complete removal of inflammation and abscesses.
Cut the plant leaf into thin plates, then wrap it in gauze and squeeze out the juice. They need to lubricate the necessary skin areas, and it is also possible to make compresses and lotions on its basis. The juice must be fresh every time.
Wet gauze in a mixture of decoction of flaxseed, olive and almond oil and aloe juice, taken in equal parts. The resulting piece of gauze is applied to a sore spot and bandage. Change the bandage every day.
If the area of inflammation is large, then it can be sprinkled with medicinal powder. To do it, you need to finely, to the state of powder, chop the dried leaves of aloe, incense, rose petals. Powder should be carried out at least five times a day.
Prevention of ingrown hairs
To prevent the appearance of hair, ingrown under the skin, you should regularly clean the skin with a scrub. Undressed before the procedure of epilation, the skin should be carefully lubricated with a scrub while massaging it. After that, she rinses and removes her hair. To prevent ingrown hairs, you need to do this at least twice a week.
Before removing hair, cleanse, soften and moisturize the skin. Hair needs to be removed only along the line of their growth, and after epilation it is necessary to use cosmetic means. By observing these rules, you can forget about the problem of ingrown hair.