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Home / Wellness / Skin and Beauty / DIY: All-Natural Recipe To Treat Ingrown Hairs

DIY: All-Natural Recipe To Treat Ingrown Hairs

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There is simply nothing worse than waking up a few days after your fresh bikini wax and seeing those nasty, red ingrown hair bumps! They were not on your list of accessories to go with that new swimsuit you just bought!

Unfortunately, some of us are more prone to getting them than others. There are steps we can take to help prevent them, but some are just inevitable.

They form from hair follicles curling up and growing back into the skin.

What causes ingrown hairs?

Ingrown hair occurs when a hair that’s been removed starts to grow back and curves into the skin. This usually happens after shaving, tweezing or waxing, according to the Mayo Clinic.

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Ingrown hair might also be caused by:

  • Pulling your skin when you shave. This action causes hair to draw back into the skin.
  • Tweezing.

When a hair penetrates your skin, this causes your skin to react to the hair in the same way it would to a foreign body causing it to become irritated.

Ingrown hair that doesn’t clear up can lead to:

  • Bacterial infection (from scratching)
  • Patches of skin that are darker than usual (postinflammatory hyperpigmentation)
  • Raised scars that are darker than surrounding skin (keloids)
  • Pseudofolliculitis barbae, also known as razor bumps
  • Fine depressed scars (grooves)

So how do you treat it? Here is an all-natural ingrown hair treatment that is easy to make and gentle on the skin. And it smells divine, too!

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Ingrown hair treatment recipe

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons coconut oil
  • 7 drops of lavender oil
  • 12 drops of tea tree oil

Instructions

  1. Mix all ingredients in a small jar or bottle (preferably one that can be sealed off so you can use your mixture later).
  2. Apply a small amount to the affected area after shaving, waxing or any hair removal and rub in until it absorbs.
  3. Watch your ingrown hairs disappear!

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Coconut oil is an anti-fungal/anti-bacterial treatment that also moisturizes.

Tea tree oil has a tremendous amount of healing properties. It helps reduce

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