Ingrown beard hair

How do ingrown hairs arise?

If you are talking about ingrown hairs, there are actually two different types. You can divide them into ingrown hairs and razor bumps.

Ingrown hairs

When shaving, your skin is under a lot of tension. When shaving it can happen that the hairs are pulled, this creates a "slanting point". That sloping point can poke in the wall of the hair follicle, which blocks the exit. The hair cannot go outside and grow under the skin surface. The biggest causes of these ingrown hairs are:

• Against hair growth in shaving
• Bone razor
• Too many dead skin cells on your skin

Razor Bumps

With razor bumps the hair grows outside, but then goes back into the skin. This often occurs in men with curled hairs. This type of ingrown hair actually has the same causes and solutions.