How to deal with your Unwanted Body Hair

There are millions of hairs on all over our body. It is desirable to have hair on some parts of our body like head, eyebrows or eyelashes. But there are some body parts where we do not like to have hair because of cosmetic reasons, like hairs on chest, back, arms and legs. Women and some men also, always seek various methods to deal with unwanted body hairs.

There are many methods to remove unwanted hairs. Some methods of hair removal are for temporary removal and some methods are for permanent hair removal. It is for you to choose right methods according to your needs and desires. Choice of removing hair depends upon quantity of hairs to be removed, skin type, time available and the coast involved.

Let us take an overview about how to deal with unwanted body hairs. There are some methods for dealing with unwanted body hairs which you can follow at home yourself also like bleaching or using hair removing creams. For other methods it is better to take services of some expert professional to be safe.

Dealing With Unwanted Body hairs:

 Bleaching: Bleaching means removing the pigment from hair. This method does not remove the hair rather it makes hair less noticeable. Bleaching agent is a chemical which is applied on the desired area and after some time remove it and wash the skin. It is applied on areas where hairs are fine but dark like on face.

Shaving:

It is a common technique to remove hair but on the same time, it is most temporary technique. It makes use of tool called razor which has a sharp blade attached to it. A softening cream is applied over the skin and razor is moved to cut hair. Shaving cuts hairs merely off the skin surface; it does not remove hairs from follicles. Hairs grow back very quickly after removing.

Physical removal of hairs:

There are other methods of hair removal which remove hair from its follicle. Physical hair removal involves pulling hair out of its follicle. Hairs take longer time to grow back as they have to pass through skin surface before coming over it. These methods leave the skin smooth and hair growing back is also very soft compared to shaving. Some of these methods are plucking, waxing, threading.

Plucking :

In this method, tweezers are used to pluck the hairs from their follicle. For this method, choose right kind of tweezers. Also hair should be long enough to be grasped in tweezers. This method is right when you want remove small quantity of hairs as it is time consuming.

Threading :

In this technique, a flexible cotton thread is used to hold hair. Then a loop is created and twisted to pull the hairs. It is a very safe technique. It is mostly used to shape eyebrows and remove facial hairs. It is just like plucking but is more effective. It can remove multiple hairs at a time. You can use to remove large amount of hair at one time.

Waxing:

This is another very popular technique of removing hairs temporarily. By the method of waxing you can remove large quantity of hair at a time. Hot wax is used to remove hairs. For this, wax is warmed so that it can spread easily over the skin. Apply wax in direction of growth of hairs. Hairs stick to the wax and then a strip of cloth is placed over the wax which quickly gets stuck to it. After it, this strip is suddenly pulled off in direction opposite to hair growth. To completely remove hair from that area, you can follow this procedure 2-3 times. But be cautious, do not over warm the wax to avoid skin getting burnt. Instead of wax, some people use thick warm sugar syrup to remove hairs.

Depilatory Creams:

You can remove hairs by applying depilatories on the desired area. These creams use a mix of chemical known as thioglycolate and sodium hydroxide or calcium hydroxide. It melts the hair away by disrupting disulfide bonds. These are the chemical bonds which hold the skin and hair cells together. There can be some side effects of this method like irritation on skin.

Permanent Methods of Hair Removal:

You can get hairs permanently removed by electrolysis and laser technique.

Electrolysis : In this technique, a fine needle is inserted into the hair follicle and electrical current is applied on hair root. It burns the hair root and prevents it to produce more hairs. Each hair is treated individually and many sittings are taken to completely destroy the follicles.

Laser hair removal:

In this technique laser targets melanin and the structure which contains melanin is burnt and destroyed. This technique is not for everyone. This technique is the best for light-skinned people with dark colored hairs.