OUCH! Ingrown hair that I can't get out!

[CrazyLady]

I got my legs and bikini line waxed 3 weeks ago and I have been following the beauty therapists advice to prevent ingrowns. About a week ago I noticed a rather large welt appear on the inside of my thigh and it's causing my legs to rub together. It's a now a very inflamed ingrown hair. It's almost the size of a 5 cent piece!

Has anyone got any suggestions on something I can use on it to try draw it out? Magnoplasm for 3 days straight didn't work and I really didn't want to go to the dr's. I know there are a few creams on the market? Are they just over dramatised moisturisers?

Thanks in advance

<3 CL

[HotI]

Stick a pin in it?

[~Gee_Whizzy~]

is there a head to it? if not use a really really really HOT compress (as hot as you can stand it) to draw it out to a head, then yeah, maybe use a sterilised pin (or splinter remover) to pierce and drain it....has worked for me everytime

[MummaSue]

Yeah, I'd get into that with a needle. But I'm a total picker when it comes to things like that!

[Ahurani]

I'd get a needle too. Man can I do it for you lol

[CrazyLady]

I'd get a needle too. Man can I do it for you lol

lol, you're sick! :P

Thanks ladies, it's in an awkward spot so I'll get DP to have a go tonight. Gotta love the fact they'll go gross stuff for ya when you can't!

[luna moth]

Honey and a bandaid over the top.

Or, sometimes, if it has a head, you can tweeze the head and apply pressure and the hair just comes floating out.

[black_rose]

Thars is the best stuff it stinks but it works. Hope you get that hair out soon, keep us posted!!!

[CrazyLady]

How long ago did you 2 get Thars? I have been in 4 chemists and none of them have heard of it. Do they even make it still? I used it religiously as a florist with rose thorns and landscaping with splinters. It's the best stuff ever!

[black_rose]

Only this year, it lasts forever, maybe try an online one?

[CrazyLady]

ooo yeah. Thanks for that. People looked at me like I was nuts when I asked for it. I really don't think magnoplasm is as good

[Olive]

it comes in a little tin with a tan lid from from memory

[Liviam]

Well?? did you get it out?? I'm such a squeezer and picker too!! Love it, LOL!!! Must be the nurse in me too

[CrazyLady]

Yup yellow lid with a retro sort of look. Looks like an old "it'll cure what ails you" tin lol. My parents had it in the cupboard and I used it religiously! I think the ingrown hair is gone because i got about 2 out. The swelling has gone down but I'm packing pawpaw ointment on it still. It still looks nasty

[MummaSue]

*sigh* I love picking.

I know, I'm gross.