What are common Causes of Ingrown Hair?
Waxing, depilatory and hair minimising creams, shaving and plucking often result in side effects such as scaring, rashes, redness, infections or ingrown hairs. Procedures such as shaving blunt the end of the hair which may then cause the hair to find difficulty in pushing through the skin. The sebaceous glands excrete more sebum to lubricate the hair to assist it in pushing through, but this is not always successful often resulting in painful infected ingrown hair with untreated infection at times resulting in an abscess. At best, pimple like eruptions and redness can occur while waxing may also rupture the fine capillaries beneath the skin resulting in bruising. Waxing causes ingrown due to the hairs being pulled in the incorrect direction, which damages and slightly moves the hair follicle, so when a hair is released it grows in the incorrect direction. Due to constant growth and sebum being released usually boils may occur if infection sets in. There are products on the market with
