For do-it-yourselfers, a variety of home-use hair removal products are available over the counter. These include shaving creams, foams, and gels; waxes; chemical depilatories; and electrolysis devices. Professionals at beauty and skin care salons and in dermatologists' offices provide waxing, electrolysis, and, most recently, laser treatments to remove hair.

The cost, safety, effectiveness, and ease of use of the various methods, as well as the area and amount of hair growth to be treated, are some factors to weigh in choosing a method and deciding whether to go to a professional. Often, different methods are better suited for different areas.

Upper lip – Waxing your upper lip can sometimes cause sore, red blotchy mustache. Try using mild bleach instead of waxing. They are available at drug stores but make sure you test them on your skin before putting it on your face. It may cause irritation.
Legs – There are many ways to remove hair from your legs. You can wax them or apply ready hair remover cream. Another way is shaving your hair. But make sure to put a thick layer of either soap or shaving cream. Then moisturize it well after shaving.
WAXING
History records ancient Egyptian and Arab civilizations using sugar, honey and lime syrup to strip off body hair and even parlours today, practice this ubiquitous technique of hair removal.
Advantages
It's economical, so I still recommend this method. Secondly, it pulls out hair from the roots, so the regrowth time is reasonably long (4 weeks or more).
SHAVING
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A shaving system is a non-disposable handle that uses replaceable blade cartridges.
A disposable razor, as the name suggests, is an inexpensive razor designed to be thrown out when the blade gets dull.
A saftey razor is a double-blade razor designed to reduce the likelihood of nicks or cuts.
Hair Removal Creams: These creams are manufactured in such a way that they dissolve the hair. These creams have an ingredient called keratolytic that will damage the skin if it is left on for a long time. Use a patch test the first time you are using a cream. But there is no doubt that they make the skin hair free, smooth and soft.

Sugaring: This technique is similar to waxing. Here the removal solution is warmed and then applied on the area required with the help of a palette knife. The solution is applied in the direction of the hair growth. Then a cotton strip is used to cover the solution and torn away in the opposite direction and thus the hair is removed. Hair re-growth takes about six to eight weeks and it is fine.


Electrolysis is a method where is only used most effectively by professionals – even though you can buy the Electrolysis devices to use at home.
Laser also is a much easier method for permanent hair removal of any body or facial hair, and is becomign more and more common.
The process of electrolysis is made by removing hairs one by one by sending the
electrical currents to the follicule of hair. It is the new method todestroy groups of follicules of hair in a sending of the electricalcurrent. The laser destroys hair only when it takes place the phase ofanagen or the phase of growth. The hard phase of anagen during a certainnumber of years and roughly 80 percent of hair of bodies take place in
this phase.

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