I've never shaved , in my all life , from North-South . only from upward . I'm 30 . never had the problem of in-grown hair . I saw a tip on youtube : after shaving , to put some witch hazel aftershave (and then put cold water and other aftershave) . it said that the witch hazel prevent the ingrown hair . true ? anyone know other produts to prevent in-grown hairs ?
Never had a problem with in growns either and I shave both north-south and south-north. Makes little difference with my beard. Although the stupid cartridge razors irritated my face to no end (looked like someone had drawn on my face with a red crayon) and blood everywhere (looked like I was in the army). Any double edge will be able to keep the ingrowns away.
Not sure what to make of this......... are you NOW having problems with ingrowns ??? If so, I would look at your technique of only going from S-N Try a N-S pass first and then follow up with a S-N XTG pass ....avoid ATG ALTOGETHER. See if that helps any. ATG= Against the grain XTG= Across the grain
I still get ingrowns using a straight razor. My hair happens to be of the curly type. I still havent found an appropriate way to go ingrown free...when achieving a close shave. just the burden i bare.
Witch Hazel will not prevent you getting ingrowns after the shave. It is what you do during the shave that will prevent. WH will, however, sooth your skin and make your life a bit easier if did encounter some razor burn/ingrowns/bad shave. I always use a splash of WH after I shave to kind of clean off any soap residue and sooth my face. Good stuff, but I would not count on it preventing ingrowns.
I can only second what has been said: It's not the products you use, it's your technique. If shaving against the grain gives you ingrown hairs, don't shave against the grain
If you're susceptible to developing them, as I am, the trick is to shave as close as you can without slicing the hairs of your beneath beard skin level. It's as simple as that. Once the damage is done, you need to extract the hairs. Manually works best, IMO. Tweezers work but what I find to be a simpler and faster solution is to shave over them such that they pop and bleed. Now that the hair is free, above the skin line, splash on some AS and you're done.
you're right... before I started shaving with DE Razor , I used to shave with the gillette plastic... but with the DE Razor I feel the shaving very close . and I don't stretch the skin when I'm shaving and make only one pass . so I'm afraid that the hairs is been cut beneath the skin .
use a shaving brush I find that when I started using a shaving brush I had way less ingrown hairs. The brush lifts up the hairs and keeps em from heading back in.
I'm VERY susceptible to ingrown hairs. I've been trying to get my skin used to being shaven, so I can start shaving w/ my straight razor. I found a product called "High Time Bump Stopper" at Wal-mart. It seems to REALLY be helping. I would start being irritated and broken out 30 min after shaving before this product. Now, barely noticable. YMMV -Greg
