so for the past few months ive been exfoliating daily with salicylic acid, and shave about twice a week. however, i was still experiencing ingrowns and i couldnt figure out why. i just went on vacation for a week, and i forgot my face scrub. low and behold, basically zero ingrowns! i was reluctant to believe that this scrub was actually causing ingrowns, because how could removing dead skin be promoting hair growing below the skin? counter intuitive, wouldnt you think? nope. my skin looks great. no irritation, no ingrowns, just got a DFS with 2 passes with a straight. YMMV, but if you use any of those ingrown hair treatments and they irritate your skin and still wont prevent ingrown hairs, try dropping that product and see how your skin reacts. just one more epiphany on the quest for BBS.