Are You Shaving Regularly on Your Neck, Facial Hair or Beard Area? Ingrown hairs can be very annoying, potentially becoming infected and becoming an infection risk.
Body hair issues affect anyone who shaves, waxes or tweezes their body hair regularly; but there’s an easy solution!
Why is laser hair removal good for ingrown hairs?
Ingrown hairs can be an embarrassing problem that’s more than cosmetically inconvenient – they can also pose health hazards like infection. Scarring may follow them under the skin’s surface, potentially leading to pilonidal cysts which must be lanced by medical professionals. But there’s good news! Laser hair removal offers an effective, safe solution that can eliminate ingrown hairs as well as stop future ones from returning.
As opposed to shaving, waxing, or plucking which only target superficial issues like ingrown hairs, laser hair removal attacks the root of the problem–namely the hair follicle itself. A laser beam sends a burst of light directly into it which causes it to break down and stop producing new hair growth, thus eliminating ingrown hair formation due to no growth opportunity for ingrown follicles to grow into and thus no ingrowns forming! This way ingrowns won’t even form because no growth will exist from now on ingrowns could possibly form.
However, your hair follicle will continue to produce finer and lighter-colored hairs between laser treatments, depending on its color, coarseness, growth rate and hormonal influences. Maintenance treatments may be necessary in order to keep ingrown hairs at bay.
Hair removal creams may help draw out ingrown hairs and reduce inflammation, while scalp massagers and products containing ingredients like retinoids or glycolic acid can dislodge any that have grown into your follicle. You could also try using an exfoliator with these same ingredients to further exfoliate.
Ingrown hairs can occur anywhere body hair grows, often as the result of shaving, waxing or other methods used for hair removal such as electrolysis. While they can be unsightly and uncomfortable, there are safe and permanent solutions available if they become a bother. Laser hair removal offers fast, simple and relatively painless ways to rid yourself of ingrown hairs once and for all.
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Laser hair removal destroys the hair follicle
Ingrown hairs can result from coarse or curly strands curling back in on themselves and becoming embedded under the skin, where they cannot be easily extracted. This leaves behind an unsightly bump which, when picked at, may lead to damage, inflammation and infection. Laser hair removal offers a permanent solution to ingrown hairs by using pulses of light energy to destroy hair follicles. This reduces their frequency while thinning out existing strands – potentially helping prevent ingrowns altogether and possibly lightening existing ones!
Laser hair removal is safe and has low risks when performed by an experienced practitioner, being both fast and convenient. While treating certain parts of the body may take longer, most treatments are painless with mild reddening and slight stinging sensations being reported after treatment; for sensitive individuals who experience redness or swelling post treatment it would be wise to apply aloe vera lotion or another soothing soothing product to soothe any irritations that arises from it.
Laser hair removal works by dissolving hair follicles and surrounding tissue, rendering hair growth impossible in its place. Three to eight laser hair removal sessions should provide permanent reduction in unwanted hairs; speaking to a specialist can give an idea of the optimal number. You may experience occasional ingrown hairs after treatment but this can be reduced by exfoliating three or four times weekly with salicylic acid-containing moisturisers.
Before beginning laser treatments, it is best to refrain from waxing or plucking the area being treated. In order for laser light to reach hair follicles effectively, they need to be in their anagen phase; otherwise they’ll have entered their resting stage and won’t be targeted by laser light.
Laser hair removal is safe
Laser hair removal offers an effective solution for those struggling with painful and unsightly ingrown hairs. It is a fast, simple, and relatively painless treatment which permanently destroys hair follicles to stop future hair growth. Here’s how it works:
At your first laser treatment session, you’ll sit comfortably while your doctor presses a hand-held instrument against your skin and applies a cooling device or cool gel at its tip to soothe discomfort and protect the surface layer of skin. Once activated, a laser beam passes through your skin to heat hair follicles, inhibiting further growth – perhaps you might feel some warm pinpricking sensation or coldness depending on which laser type was chosen for use.
Before laser hair removal treatments, your doctor will instruct you to avoid using products which darken the skin or other methods that disrupt follicles, and to shave before your appointment. A series of laser treatments may be required, as well as regular maintenance appointments to maintain desired results.
As part of laser hair removal, your doctor may require that you wear protective eyewear or mask to lessen any chances of surface skin damage during treatment. Furthermore, it’s essential that you discuss with him or her any medications or health conditions which might impact its outcome, such as diabetes or previous scarring from sunburns that might alter the process.
Ingrown hairs occur when hair follicles become clogged with dead skin cells, oil, and bacteria that prevent hair from growing out from underneath the surface and instead becomes stuck underneath it – oftentimes shaving, plucking, waxing and/or plucking incorrectly can lead to ingrown hairs which will break off at the surface and cause redness, irritation and infection in later. Laser hair removal is an effective and safe solution for eliminating ingrown hairs for more beautiful and silkier skin.
Laser hair removal is effective
Hair removal with lasers is an incredibly effective way to stop ingrown hairs from coming back. The laser energy goes straight to the source – the hair follicle – and destroys it so it cannot produce more hair, thus eliminating the need to shave, wax, or pluck unwanted strands. Unfortunately, laser treatment requires multiple sessions before hairs grow back and cause ingrowns once more.
Blockages caused by dead skin cells prevent hair follicles from pushing the hair through and to the surface, causing it to curl back under and lodge itself beneath the skin causing an ingrown hair. Ingrown hairs are extremely painful and annoying as well as potentially leading to blocked pores leading to irritation and inflammation.
While shaving, waxing, and plucking may help prevent ingrown hairs temporarily, they do not fully address the problem due to hair follicles still producing new hairs – leading to further pain, redness, irritation, and ingrown hairs reoccurring and leading to further discomfort and ingrowns.
Laser hair removal is the ideal solution to combating ingrown hairs. By eliminating hair follicles and stopping their ability to produce new growth, ingrowns can be eliminated for good.
The type of laser used for laser hair removal has a tremendous influence on its effectiveness. The spot size (width of beam) determines how deeply into the skin the energy from laser beam reaches hair follicles, while fluence (energy density of laser) also matters – higher fluence can heat skin more effectively and therefore destroy more hair follicles more rapidly.
Before achieving permanent hair reduction, multiple treatments at four-week intervals will be required to achieve long-term success. Up to five laser hair removal sessions may be necessary in order to fully remove unwanted hair from your body and maintain results over time. You may require touch up treatments periodically as well.
