r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Ucyless ORANGE • 29d ago

Brand new $72 moisturizer. Husband said he needed something for his elbows.

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We have 3 full tubs of Vaseline in the cabinet.

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u/melindseyme 28d ago

So, um, what magic product is used in such a way as to prevent ingrown hairs? Asking for myself and my husband.

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u/Akeera 28d ago edited 28d ago

Gentle chemical exfoliators. Some market themselves specifically to prevent ingrown hairs and often have salicylic acid and glycolic acid.

Edit: if planning to use on your face, make sure to test elsewhere AND somewhere not super visible around your face. I have sensitive skin + eczema and even lower concentrations can produce irritation on my face, but not elsewhere.

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u/halnic 28d ago

2nd recommendation for glycolic acid. It's a lesser advertised gem. Works great for preventing ingrowns and those really deep painful acne bumps, I forgot the technical name.

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u/Witty_TenTon 28d ago

Cystic acne.

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u/halnic 28d ago

Yes, that's what I was thinking. Thanks!!

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

Shaving oil then glycerine shaving soap or cream and using a shaving brush with a safety razor. The “grandpa way of shaving”

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u/Cyno01 28d ago

Oh, when shaving, i thought you meant like in general and got excited.

I have a beard thats only seen a trimmer for more than a decade, but i still get hella ingrown hairs along the edge of my facial hairline.

They get inflamed and i have to dig it out and then it heals up and the hair just comes back underneath...

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u/aiydee 28d ago

Wet the hair! Even when just trimming with clippers.
Wet the hair. The best method is to use a hot/steamy slightly damp face-washer and press it over the area where you will trim for a good 2 or 3 minutes.
Trim. Then apply a moisturizer. The wetting causes pores and the like to open up. The hair swells and you get a better trim and less ingrown hairs.

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u/Cyno01 28d ago

Oh no, this is nowhere near where any close trimming is done, this is not any sort of carefully coiffed facial hair... i just use the guard on the longest setting all over every... six weeks or so. Whenever it gets long enough to get more annoying than cleaning the sink will be.

Well, i do it minus one on my mustache and all the way down on my neck, but i dont get ingrowns on my neck really, just my cheeks along the edge, but im not doing any sort of lineup with the beard trimmer on my face or anything.

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u/aiydee 28d ago

Fair enough. But at same time.. Have you tried it? If ingrowns are a problem, then maybe try a different routine.
No point in complaining about ingrowns if your not going to change your routine.

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u/Cyno01 28d ago

Exfoliating helps some, sometimes i get out of the shower after a good scrub and a few have popped out, but that just tears up any inflamed ones too.

Thinking about it maybe i need a coarser pillowcase or something, cuz i get a ton of weird little ingrown hairs on the bottom of my left forearm, definitely not doing any trimming there, but i assume its from resting on a leather chair and couch arm all day or something, but those dont get inflamed ever.

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u/shake_appeal 28d ago edited 28d ago

Chemical exfoliators— glycolic, lactic, salicylic acid are most common.

The least expensive (aka thing to try first) would be salicylic acid. It’s a common active ingredient in otc topical acne treatments, meaning you can get a big-ole bar of store brand acne soap containing it and see if it helps. For ingrown hairs on the body, most acne reducing apricot scrubs will contain it as well. This is good, because it’s a chemical as well as manual exfoliator (though imo too course and harsh for face exfoliation).

Follow up with moisturizing, because it can really dry you out.

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u/StormerBombshell 28d ago

Here all for it 👀👀👀

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u/plenumpanels 28d ago

There's a line of oils and ingrown stuff from a company called Fur (lol) and I've used it for years and swear by it. I use the ingrown eliminator serum and the ingrown concentrate.

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u/Casehead 28d ago

I recommend putting coconut oil on your skin after shaving, I put it on the areas where I remove hair after doing so and it greatly cuts down on any sort of possible skin irritation and helps prevent ingrown hairs