Redness/Rash in moustache area after shaving

Wtf is Selsun Gold? That prescribed medication only?

I have similar problem but i can control some extent the itchness and redness through by applying "Baxitraycin Plus" with moisture aloe  many times a day.

Hi All. I had the same problem as all of you guys. Only after using nivia men sensitive face wash, together with the nivia men sensitve moisturiser, I never got this problem again. Both these products got 0% alchol. Hope this will help some of you as well.

Same. I rarely get it anymore. I use same products and stay shaved regularly. Ok so far

I'm assuming that you are a woman.. it doesn't work the same way for men for our mustache area. If it did then all men would be getting their mustache areas threaded

I had the same problem I wash the red spot with head and shoulders shampoo then I used gold bond extra strength medicated lotion its was gone in 4 days but it burns when you put on the lotion that just means it's working you can buy everything at wal-Mart hope this helps

I have the same problem, when I don't shave and I have a mustache it gets red and itchy, when I shave it gets very red and looks very bad. Ive tried many things to help the redness. one thing I came across that helped me is called PREP it has a sun on the front of it. but unfortunately its only sold in the UK and South Africa. It is not sold in Canada or the USA. I know you can order it online for around $20.00

Thank you for all making me feel lie I "Wasn't alone" with this condition. With me, it started with a spot on my chin that looked like I wiped out on a skateboard. Then, it also appeared at each side of my mustache area towards the outsides. I cannot go a few days without shaving and having this show up. So, I HAVE to shave; if not, the rash will turn to flakes and look like dried milk on my face. I have tried every skin cream, moisturizer, you name it- UNTIL--an elderly man told me this: Shave every day and follow it with "Aqua Velva". -No sh*t-this WORKS! I cannot let the whiskers grow out still, but at least when I am clean shaven I don't have the rash or flakes on my face. I wet shave with any kind of shaving cream, wash up and then put a generous amount of Aqua Velva on my face and this stuff is gone in a DAY. I was worried about smelling like an old feller, but the smell is not bad and just smells clean after a few minutes. I think it is something about the alcohol in the burning blue elixir, but it really does work. The other thing that I have found that is effective is Hydrogen Peroxide, but just not as well as the "Ice Blue Cooling After Shave". Hope this works for you all as much as it does me! I suppose I am destined to be clean shaven-

I used to have the same problem on my upper lip for years. It finally disappeared when I went vegan. I have no idea why but I haven't gotten a pimple since then either. Not trying to preach veganism but maybe it's something you are eating that is causing a skin allergy.

So it could be a combination of both! I talked with my dermatologist and he mentioned I have sensitive skin but that peoples reactions are different. I know this thread was over a year ago so I dont know if anyone is bothering to read but if so this might help you. It really is going to boil down to timing and developing a routine. I have found that if I want to grow a mustache, I have to "pressure through" the flaky rash stage, as I develop the red flaky scab pushing through the hair nastiness. Eventually my skin calms down, and the side effect does go away but I am talking about almost 1 month or so after the full mustache as grown in. Some people might be longer or shorter depending on your "reaction time" and thats what my doc told me, the same goes for daily shaving. I can shave daily and prevent the red rash from forming like one of the commenters mentioned because thats how my skin reacts. Moisturizers and lotions and essentials oils etc might all "help" get through certain stages but realistically if you have a preference and dont mind waiting to see, give it a good solid month of either daily shaving where you develop a routine and do everything the same to let your body naturally adapt or if you're trying to grow it out, let it grow and wait for results.

Disclaimer - i'm no doctor or any sort of medical professional - the below is complete conjecture from my observations over the years, and the little reading i've done on the subject so far.

Firstly: if you haven't, read StewieMD's posts here in this forum - they seem the most relevant and informative. Fungus/yeast + mites sounds about right to me and is totally in line with my thinking on this. Though I think there may still be (at least...) one element of the equation missing.

Secondly: I would submit that most of you are simply dealing with the symptoms (as have I) with the use of creams/alcohol based liquids/cleaners etc. mentioned by many here in this thread. The problem with this of course, is that it will always recur at some point - especially when you stop whatever regime you are using to control it, or "it" simply develops a resistance against what you are using. Of course everyone is different, some regimes may actually work if you never stop doing them. Some regimes will damage your skin and its defenses leaving you more susceptible to future problems. And some regimes will doubtless increase the strength and virulence of the problem.

Initially I started using rubbing alcohol on my problem spots, and it was effective. But then I came across information (from Hulda Clark) stating that alcohol and isopropyl products are highly mutagenic (make things mutate). Ever since then i've been moving away from the use of those products on my skin. I am personally of the opinion that life is incredibly tenacious, and that the end result of using specific killing agents against micro organisms - is that they will develop resistance and immunity to whatever you use to kill them. They have short life spans, reproduce in multitudes, and it only takes one mutation to produce resistance in entire generations. To flip the old borg quote on its ear - resistance is inevitable (especially when it comes to human created killing materials it seems).

Its not from shaving, I have been trimming the hair in my moustashe area with scissors for years because I discovered as a teen that shaving the area with a razor gives me problems with acne/ingrown hairs there and on my chin. My red patches started in my mid to late 20s, long after I had stopped shaving my moustashe area. Shaving only allows the area to be cleaned better imo, which is what leads to the periodic lessening of symptoms before things get established again (and there is enough hair around for the fungus/mites to flourish/hide in). Shaving may actually be helping move and spread the bacteria/mites around especially if you aren't using some sort of killing agent on them afterwards.

I've been fighting with this same c**p for 10+ years, and i've found a number of ways to kill it, but it always returns. It seems to slowly be getting harder to deal with over the years. I definitely seem to have had a problem with seb derm - on the scalp mainly when I was younger. When I go without washing for too long, basically 24 hours, I start to develope itchy patches on my scalp (and shortly therafter on any part of my body with hair on it) which turn into red sores if I scratch enough. The sensation I get when developing the red patches in the moustache area seems a bit different, characterized more by a slight burning, like something is literally eating into the surface of my skin; maybe that is just the inflammation talking, but I can't say they are itchy like my scalp gets. Although maybe i've just learned to tune out the itch /shrug. Thing is the patches I get over my upper lip can occur daily regardless of washing or not, this indicates to me that there is something else going on here.

I suspect that when I have a shower the heat/moisture is liquifying the junk in my nose and sinuses and letting it leak down out of my nose and onto the skin over my lip. Several times after getting out of the shower i've noticed a snotty kind of dribble leaking down from my nostrils. My guess is that something im hosting in my nose is leaking onto my skin above my lip during or after showers, some sort of strept bacteria maybe? And that this substance is in fact encouraging the grown of both fungus/yeast and mites in the concerned
area. That would be my (complete) guess as to element three of the equation, in my case at least, and would help to explain the recurrence of it on my moustache area.

I'm sure there are other elements that contribute to the problem. Our skins produce and exude all kinds of complex compounds depending on what we eat (and probably in accordance with our individual genetic makeup). If we can eliminate the things from our diet that are producing the "food" the fungus/mites are feeding on, well that may be the permanent solution, although this may not be possible for everyone either, at least it would seem to answer why the above poster (who became vegan) no longer has these problems. Of course this requires lifestyle changes - much harder to accomplish then just smearing some cream on....

In my case I have found that if I remove gluten and dairy from my diet almost all of my acne disappears and my other skin problems become more manageable. Lately i've been experimenting with nuts and find that they have a seriously negative impact on my skin ;( Small white headed zits can pop up within hours of me eating more then a very small handful of cashews, accompanied by excessive oil output from my skin and an outbreak of red patches on the moustache area. /rip cashews.

Most likely I have underlying problems that are causing or contributing to these symptoms/problems. One of my potential culprits is in fact in my mouth: two 20+ year old silver fillings that have most likely been leaking mercury into my body for 20+ years. Heavy metal poisoning in the body can lead to all sorts of problems including fungal/yeast overgrowth. I also had blood poisoning when I was a teenager - not so good for the liver, which is another of my concerns, (impaired liver function) and probably part of the reason I see the results in my skin of whatever I eat, in a very short period of time.

The good news for me is that I am finally going to a doc early next month to see if I can nail down exactly what this stuff is, and a dentist shortly after to deal with my dental issues.

Anyway that's my medically uninformed opinion based on complete conjecture and observation.

Just wanted to say - didn't articulate some of my ideas very well in the above post, forgot to address a few things, some of the terminology is probably wrong, and I used a wrong word here and there, so - take my ramblings with a grain of salt.

I have the exact same problem...my face itches and i get red raised areas that then flake...did you find a remedy?

Hello I'm so relief after reading everyone's story. I to suffer from this embarrassing problem unfortunately for the past 4 years. Ive had bumps behind my neck lower part of my scalp area. Do to close razor cuts hair gets trapped inside. So stopped shaving my head thought it would help but unfortunately continued. After hearing your story hoping quadriderm cream is the solution. Have came across the cream but just today searching on the Web the uses of quadriderm figure it might work for severe ingrown hair. 

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Hey everyone, i recently in the past year have developed this problem. After reading I can say with me personally if I go without shaving more than 3-4 days and wait a week, no matter what I do(lather in shaving cream, moisturizer, I will still get that breakout in the middle of my mustache use to be.

For the longest time (last 2-3 years) I've been shaving at my local YMCA in the steam room, using baby oil as well and NEVER had an issue. No shaving cream or nothing, strictly sweating and baby oil and it would never happen. The last 3-6 months I work on the railroad and I'm out of town and can't go, and I now have this issue if I don't try to keep a trim or shave there every few days. Before I could go a week or so then go to the Y and have no problem.

I recconebd constantly trimming it down 2 times a week before you decide to take a razor to it and shave, if you can go to a sauna or steam room try it, like I said I just developed this after messing around a month or so of trial and error, I'm sure going back home to my old technique it won't be happening.