How to Get Rid of Ingrown Hairs on Your Legs Fast

Wondering how to get rid of ingrown hairs on your legs fast appeared after you shaved or waxed? Well, ingrown hairs are medically harmless but if not taken care, may lead to infection, scaring, discoloration etc and can be a cause of embarrassment.

Ingrown hairs generally appears as small red bumps under the skin like pimples on any skin area that tends to shaved or waxed frequently and women usually get ingrown hair on legs, arms and bikini areas. Ingrown hairs cause itching, irritation and pain but make you uncomfortable if appear on exposed area like leg and arms, even force you avoid shorts and miniskirts. That’s the reason why every woman wants to know how to get rid of ingrown hair on legs naturally at home.

What causes ingrown hairs?

An ingrown hair appears when hairs on body curl and grow back or sideways inside the skin. Generally men with hard and curly hair face this problem but women also get ingrown hairs on their legs, arms, bikini area etc. Generally three factors cause ingrown hairs on legs.

Hair pull out a little from hair follicle when shaved or waxed and change its direction, then hair with sharp tip purse into the skin back or sideways and form a small pink bump like pimple, some time filled with pus.

When waxed, hair don’t come out of hair follicle but break inside the skin premises and grow sideways in the skin to form ingrown hair on legs.

When hair pulled completely out of hair follicle and new growing hair trapped inside because of dead skin cells buildup.

Getting rid of ingrown hairs on your legs fast?

The practical way to get rid of ingrown hairs on legs is to prevent it from appearing because once they appear there is no home remedy or magic to treat them instantly and they disappear by their own. But there are some home remedies that can help you to treat ingrown hairs faster and some prevention tips to prevent ingrown from appearing.

Home Remedies to Get Rid of an Ingrown Faster

If you see one or just couple of ingrown hairs appeared on your legs, you can pull out trapped hair inside skin manually. If you can see trapped hair from outside, use a pair of sterilized tweezers to open the skin and pull out the trapped hair carefully. Don’t pull the hair from root but just pull the tip of hair out of skin carefully and apply rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide or acne cream on affected area to prevent infection.

Never use tweezers aggressively if hair is trapped deeply. It can damage skin and can lead to infection and permanent scars.

• If number of ingrown hairs appeared on your legs, you can use rubbing alcohol and non-coated aspirin solution to get rid of ingrown hairs on your legs fast.
• Dissolve non-coated aspirin tablets in rubbing alcohol and make a solution (you can get non-coated aspirin and rubbing alcohol in any medical store).
• Apply this solution on affected area or ingrown hairs at least twice a day, this home remedy can help you to treat ingrown hairs fast.

How to prevent ingrown hairs on legs for women?

• Never use a dull blade to shave your legs, dull blade can pull hair and change its direction of growth, dull blade also cause skin inflammation and razor bumps.
• Soften you hair before shaving or waxing. You can use steam or towel soaked in hot water to soften hair, use adequate lubricant (shaving foam, cream) while shaving.
• Shave or wax in same direction your hair is growing.
• Use diluted rubbing alcohol just after shaving or waxing, it can prevent the formation of razor bumps and ingrown hair on your legs.
• Use natural oils and moisturizer to keep your skin and hair smooth, hard hair tends to form ingrown hairs.
• Exfoliate your skin regularly with scrubber or scrubbing gel to avoid building up dead skin cells on legs that cause hairs to trapped inside and form ingrown hairs.  

Practically there is no real treatment to get rid of ingrown hairs on legs other than avoid shaving and waxing as long hair don’t have sharp tips and unlikely to curl back and break through the skin but avoiding razor or waxing on legs may not be an option for women.

So, there won’t be a promising answer to your question “How to get rid of ingrown hair on legs” but above mentioned prevention tips and home remedies can help you in some ways.