By: Monica C.
Submitted: 2009-08-21 17:13:18 | Word Count: 540
Generalized, unwanted body hairs can mess up your plans for a svelte, sensual dress or a trip to the beach. You needn’t worry about body hair anymore. As it turns out, there are many ways of eliminating these unsightly skin occupants easily and effectively.
Cold Waxing
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Cold waxing makes use of the same ingredients as those used in the hot waxing method. The major difference is the actual temperature of the wax when it’s applied to the skin. If hot waxing requires melting before application, cold waxing doesn’t. Don’t worry about mixing your own batch of cold wax for your hair legs. There are many available cold wax brands out in the market today. Many of these brands offer the waxes attached firmly to pre shaped strips.
The shape of the strip is important. Since the cold wax can be applied to places like the eyebrow and the bikini area, the shape of the strip dictates the shape of the wax. If you want to remedy your eyebrows, you must buy arched cold wax strips, if you want something for the arms, you need long, narrow strips, etc. The main disadvantage with cod waxing is that it does not remove all the hairs in one pull. Therefore, you must apply the strips repeatedly to get the best results.
Depilatory Products
As early as the nineties, depilatory products have been in use to remove hairs from various regions of the body. Most depilatory products come in cream form; some use an oil based medium. Quality depilatory products can provide users with smooth and hair free skin for about a week or less, depending on the individual rate of hair growth. Just like nail growth, hair growth varies across different individuals, across different populations.
The usual active ingredients of the depilatory products include sodium calcium and titanium dioxide. Industrially, elements like titanium dioxide are used in conjunction with bleaching agents. Ordinarily, depilatory products need at least 5 to 15 minutes of sitting time on your skin to dissolve the unwanted hair amply. After which you can simply rub off the formula from your skin. Make sure that you rub off the stuff well so that you can get rid of as much hair as you can maximally can.
Safety With Depilatory Products
While we’re glad that you think you’ve found the best solution to your unwanted hairs, we must still throw caution to the air. Remember that depilatory products have been armed with ingredients that actually break the chemical bonds of the hairs and physically dissolving them. Something that potent should be used with care, always. While the most popular brands have been designed to be tolerated well, there’s always room for exceptions.
To avoid any nasty run ins with severe dermatosis resulting from chemical allergies, use a test patch first. A test patch is simply a small area of the skin where you ‘test’ whether a skin product is tolerable or not. Usually, common signs of allergy such as redness, hard bumps and itchiness manifests if you are allergic to a product. If something like that happens after you let a small amount of the product sit on your skin, then don’t use the product.
Author Resource:-
Monica C. is an online medical researcher on hair and skin. To learn how to remove your unwanted body, chest, back, leg, arm, underarm or pubic hair painless and effortless at your home, visit Monica’s site: http://www.10hairremoval.com/ for more information.
