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Is there a remedy of permanent hair removal?
( 3 Jul 2008)

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There are techniques to permanently remove body hair, but none of them are techniques that can be performed at home. These techniques involve specialized equipment and are of course more expensive than home techniques. Hair removal techniques that can be performed at home are mostly the traditional techniques such as plucking, shaving, waxing, and threading.


In addition, among the more recently developed techniques for removing body hair are the hair removal creams and powders that dissolve the hair above the surface of the skin and mechanical epilators that pluck out whole hairs quicker and more painlessly that traditional epilatory techniques.

As far as permanent hair removal goes, what is aimed at is not simply removing hair, but destroying the areas in the skin that are responsible for the growth of that hair. There are basically two techniques - electrolysis and laser hair removal.


Electrolysis is the most effective, but is relatively more time consuming as each hair follicle needs to be individually treated. Laser removal techniques are usually quicker, but are considered to be able to only reduce hair growth, rather than removing all hair in the treated area.

You need to consider all these and other factors when deciding what method of hair removal to use.

answered by G M on 4 Jul 2008, 4:31:21

 

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