Ingrown Pubic Hair – Get Rid Of It Now!
Posted: Saturday, May 13, 2006
by Sacha Tarkovsky
In today’s world of fitness and fashion, it’s becoming the mode (again) to have a clean and bald look at the pubic area. Why the word ‘again’?
The ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Indians preferred this look, and perfected ways to accomplish it.
They also knew how to deal with ingrown pubic hair, so let's look at some tried and trusted ways to take care of this problem.
An ingrown pubic hair is one that grows at an abnormal angle and turns back into the skin, causing the formation of a pustule or papule (A small, solid inflammatory elevation of the skin that may or may not contain pus.
Also commonly known as “razor bumps"). This is unsightly and an unwanted side-effect to the bald look.
How do you get it?
There are many ways, but the most common way is to shave with a razor in the opposite direction of the natural hair growth.
The pubic hair can also be trapped beneath the skin from blockages to the hair follicle (also caused by shaving in many cases). Also the other hair removal methods such as shaving, waxing, tweezing, electrolysis, often irritate the hair follicle, and the hair becomes trapped beneath the skin.
What do I do now?
There are many ways to treat it.
The best way, as in all medicine, is prevention. In Part 2 of this series we explain how to prevent ingrown pubic hair, but now you need first aid.
So here are the proven methods, some taken from the ancient Greeks and Egyptians who had the same problem 3000 years ago.
•Understanding that the body will try to eliminate the ingrown pubic hair itself, help it along. Go to a sauna, and when you have built up a good sweat, lightly scrub (meaning exfoliate, i.e. take off the dead skin) with a “loofa".
A loofa is a marine plant that grows in the Nile, and resembles a coarse sponge. You can find it at any store that sells bath products.
•After the sauna, and scrubbing, the ingrown hair may be free (due also to the dilation of the pores while in a sauna), and have a sterilized tweezers ready (the ancient method).
Pluck them out! One by one. You must stretch the skin tightly, grips the hair close to the root, and pull it out. Ouch! But it works. After each pluck, dab on some antiseptic solution.
•If the above is not suitable for you, then you can do a three times a day compress on the affected area with a wash cloth soaked hot water (not too hot!), followed by the application of any product containing salicylic acid.
Salicylic acid is a strong exfoliating chemical that is useful to free such hair.
Ask your pharmacist to recommend such a product. There are many on the market.
•The daily use of the compress will help the body fix the problem, but also, you can apply some baby oil mixed with Aloe Vera lotion (make it yourself).
This will keep the skin from becoming further irritated, and the Aloe Vera is a natural antiseptic which will help prevent infection at the affected site.
Of course, there are salon specialists, but their methods will be expensive, and no more effective than the above.
You can also see your doctor, as in everything of this nature, the ingrown hair may not be a simple problem.
As we said, the best cure is prevention, and Part 2 of this article shows you how to prevent from ever getting an ingrown hair.
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Top-level comments on this article: (5 total)Thank you THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! I had a huge lump in my pubic area and I couldn't figure out what it was until I stumbled onto this post. I plucked away a few of my curly hairs and the lump started oozing out .... well... um.... lets just say some yucky yellowish stuff. To make a long story short the size was down to about half after I had plucked out the hairs and let it drain... In a few days the lump was gone. :) Thanks again and keep posting great stuff like this here. Hugs. :)
Glad that people (you) write on things such as these.
Very helpful, I like that you mentioned how long people have been dealing with this, even with all the articles on the net sometimes you do feel that it's just you!!!
My little hair turned into a golf ball. bad ,bad,news. Several problems. See doctor I didn't right away. Sometimes you don't want to pop it and thank goodness I did'nt. For me it would have done more harm.
The best method I have found- epsom salt. Soak for a half hour. Like the sauna, it opens pours- but cleans them out as well.
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