facial hair issue

[stneville]

I have got a problem with my facial hair that is causing me to get lumps or boils under my skin.

The hair is dying as normal but instead of falling out or being pushed out by a new hair, the hair is remaining in place. After shaving the root of the hair is staying under the skin.

The remains of the hair is now stuck and becomes infected and surrounded by liquid which causes the bump. The only way to get the bump to go away is to physically remove the remains of the hair.

Up until my last shave I have been using an electric shaver which I don’t think is helping. My last shave was with a safety razor after reading through the wiki on here.

Has anyone come across this before or got any advice?

[stneville]

thanks for all the great advice.

I have completely stopped using facial wash of any sort and now just using hot water and face scrub every couple of days in the shower. It seems to have done the trick i haven't had any further hairs to pull out or stuck under my skin.

The boil on my neck has finally gone down but there is still a visible mark. I ended up pulling out three dead hairs from the lump and squeezing out a load of fluid.

I was already using moisturiser, have been using it for a long while but will try something new.