The Truth about Hair Removal

Hair removal has been practiced in all cultures around the world for centuries. The reasons for hair removal are usually social, cultural, medical, or religious. Many different cultures have an ideal amount of hair that men and women should have. For example, men in western cultures shave their facial hair daily to achieve a clean-shaven appearance so, only a small amount of men have beards, and in North American it is considered feminine to removal almost all body hair. Some women even shave their heads due to cultural traditions like in India the tradition is for widows to shave their heads.


What are the types of hair removal?

There are many different types of hair removal some are only temporary while others are more permanent. Depilatories are the temporary types of hair removal that is the removal of hair at skin level that lasts from several hours to several days. It includes shaving or trimming, which is done by hand with a razor or with an electric shaver, creams or shaving powders that chemically break up the unwanted hair. Another form of temporary hair removal is epilation, which removes the entire unwanted hair by the root; it lasts from a few days to several weeks. They is also plucking, which entails hair being plucked or pulled out by tweezers or by fingers, waxing, which is a cold or hot layer of wax applied to skin then covered by a porous strips then removed, sugaring, which is similar to waxing except it is a sticky paste, threading which is a twisted thread that removes hair as it is rolled across the skin, epilators, which is a mechanical device that grabs the hairs rapidly and pull them out. And last but not least there are also prescription oral medications that can be prescribed to you by your doctor.

Permanent forms of hair removal include many different options; a number of the methods have been developed that use chemicals, different types of energy, or a combination of the two that target the area of unwanted hair growth. Electrolysis, laser hair removal, and intense pulsed light are all forms of permanent hair removal. In the past there were a couple other more flawed options of permanent hair removal, but they were banned due to the health risks they proposed to the users. They were x-ray hair removal that efficiently removed hair permanently, but is now illegal in the United States. Also there was photodynamic therapy, which was only an experimental form of permanent hair removal.

What are the disadvantages?

There are numerous disadvantages for several of these hair removal methods. Most of the methods are not permanent, are very expensive, or can propose hair problems. You should seek advice from a doctor-supervised facility to find a hair removal method that’s right for you, because several of the methods are only still in the testing phase and have yet to be clinically proven.