Face Hair Removal – The Best Method

Written by on August 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment

You may have been thinking about face hair removal for some time wondering what to do about it or maybe you’ve tried a few ways to remove your unwanted facial hair and have found them far from ideal. I know, I tried a few myself many moons ago before I found a permanent way to deal with facial hair.

But I’m not going to tell you about a miracle product that I tried and all the hair was gone like in those scam ads. Believe me there are no such miracle products (although I wish there were). In fact, there is only one proven and FDA approved method to permanently get rid of facial hair. So guess what, I used it!

You see the best method is electrolysis – it’s as old as the hills but it works and it’s still the only way to remove every hair you want rid of permanently.

Face hair removal by electrolysis

Face hair removal by electrolysis

Of course facial laser hair removal works permanently too to an extent (and may be best if you have large amounts of facial hair to deal with as it is faster and less painful to deal with larger areas) but it does not promise permanent removal of every hair just a permanent reduction in hair growth.

In any case I had relatively few hairs to deal with and with electrolysis they were gone and have not come back decades later. So I can vouch for the performance of the solution.

If you’re considering face hair removal I would go along to a local licensed salon and talk to them about electrolysis for your face and see if it’s a solution for you too. It can take some months of short 15 minute treatments to rid yourself of unwanted hair but the sooner you start the sooner you will be free of the problem.

Of the temporary methods of facial hair removal there’s really nothing ideal due to regrowth problems but you may find a facial depilatory cream is good for a few days and waxing for a few weeks if your skin can stand up to the treatment OK and does not become too sore.

If you only have the odd stray hair on chin or upper lip then plucking with tweezers is just fine although you should not pull the hairs from moles – you should treat these by snipping with scissors close to the skin surface rather than treating them with normal face hair removal methods.

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Laser Hair Removal for Men

Written by on August 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Laser hair removal for men has become very popular in recent years as the trend is for men to have as little body hair as possible these days – at least that’s the trend among fashionable men from the world of sport, fashion and movies (the beautiful set who appear regularly in celebrity magazines).

Of course, there are other ways of removing hair such as waxing, depilatory creams and shaving but laser hair removal is the most popular method of removing hair for men who have the cash to spend. Here’s why:-

1. You can treat large areas of your body fast. Men typically want to remove hair from areas such as the back, chest, stomach and legs and this would be too costly and time consuming for any other permanent hair removal method such as electrolysis.

laser hair removal for men

laser hair removal for men is becoming more popular

2. Laser hair removal is less painful than other effective methods of hair removal. Any man who has read a graphic description of chest waxing (or worse, back, crack and sack waxing) is likely to choose laser treatment from sheer terror! Although men will of course experience some discomfort from laser hair removal it is nowhere near as painful as waxing or as daunting. (The treatment feels like being pinged with tiny rubber bands and even this is often reduced with the application of cooling anesthetic gels)

3. Laser hair removal is a permanent method of reducing hair growth. After the initial sessions the odd top-up session might be needed but hair will be permanently reduced or eliminated. Actually, this can also be a disadvantage (see below).

If men decide against laser hair removal the main reasons are usually because

1. the cost of laser treatment – you pay a few hundred dollars per session and need probably 3 to 6 sessions to treat each area plus follow up maintenance sessions to deal with any regrowth.

2. the time required for appointments in a busy schedule

3. the permanent nature of laser treatment. Once hair has gone it is unlikely to return and as we know fashions change..a chest wig is not a good look

4. it is not suitable for all hair and body types. It is less effective, for example, if you have very tanned, olive or dark skin and it does not work at all on hair with little pigment such as blond, red or gray hair.

Laser hair removal for men is available in many clinics and centers nationwide. They are just as used to treating men as they are women. So if it seems like the right method for you, browse around a few clinics online and make appointments with a few consultants to talk about treatment, costs and potential results. If you need help choosing a clinic you can see our guidelines for making the right choice “Choosing a Laser Clinic”

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Hair Remover

Written by on August 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Oh how I wish I had a magic hair remover that would just whisk hair away never to be seen again without any mess or pain and we could give up the whole miserable hair removal process. Maybe I’m having a bad day but suddenly every hair removal method look like not quite good enough. I am coping quite well as I have my methods worked out but I wish I didn’t have to bother. And I’m sure many men would rather not shave too. Maybe the answer is that we should forget hair removers and just give ourselves a break and love ourselves just the way we are. But I’d still rather have a hair remover to work it’s magic and make me smooth and hair-free without the bother.

What exactly have I got against every hair removal method today?

Finding the Perfect Hair remover is such a pain

Finding the Perfect Hair remover is such a pain

1. Pain

Either you remove hair from the surface of the skin without pain and it grows back in a couple of days or you have the pain of removing it from the root. It hurts – no two ways about it. Even if you pay big bucks for a permanent solution you are still getting rid of the hair at the follicle and that means pain. Some devices are on the market like the Epila laser hair remover say they are pain free but pain free generally means that they don’t work!

2. Time

Removing hair eats up your time whether it’s shaving, waiting for depilatory cream to work or getting to appointments at a salon. It takes up hours of your precious time (and even days and weeks over your lifetime). You’ll always find ads for a quick facial hair remover or a fast permanent hair remover but they are never quite as speedy as you’d like i.e. taking no time at all.

3. Mess

If you confine the whole thing to a salon then they get to deal with any mess (and no doubt you pay for that) but if you remove hair at home it’s you who has to clean up any sticky wax residue or any blobs of depilatory cream which fall on the floor. Anyone had to clean Nair hair remover cream from the bedroom carpet like me?

4. Cost

We either pay a big cost for a permanent hair removal method or we pay over and over for waxing treatments (or home wax products), depilatory creams and razors. We buy waxing kits and epilators. We buy facial hair removers, cold wax strips and bleach. Our money could be better spent on more fun stuff if we didn’t care about our unwanted hair.

Never mind, forgive my rant! Despite all that I will still be continuing my hair removal routines and testing with all kinds of hair removers always looking for a better hair remover that will reduce the pain, time, cost and mess. I like my smooth skin! Just a pity we have not found the ideal solution yet!

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Revitol Hair Removal Cream

Written by on August 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Revitol hair removal cream is another product with mixed reviews. See here.

This kind of diversity of opinion is quite typical of hair removal products as we all react differently to the chemicals in them or the processes involved, but I really start to wonder how results can differ on these kinds of products so much and I suspect that some of the few positive reviews in this case are by those with a vested interest in the success of the product.

Giving it the benefit of the doubt for a moment (Revitol’s own website has a number of glowing reviews which seem quite genuine) however let’s look at this in a bit more detail.

Revitol Hair Removal Cream

Revitol Hair Removal Cream

Revitol is basically a gentle hair removal cream containing many natural ingredients as well as the usual ingredients that remove hair and also ingredients which inhibit hair growth. (All the ingredients are listed on their website and include Aloe Vera, Glycerin, Chamomile Extract, Water, Calcium Hydroxide, Calcium Thioglycolate Trihydrate,Cetyl Alcohol, Isopropyl Palmitate, Pro-Vitamin Antioxident Complex (Vitamins E & A, Vitamin K, Pro-Vitamin E, Herbal Extracts, Green Tea Extract) Forestal, Willow Bark, Butcherbroom Extract, Hydrolized Milk Protein, Calendula Officinalis, Hydrolyzed Yeast Protein, Hydrocotyl, Horse Chestnut Extract, Phenoxethanol, Licorice Extract, Fragrance (Green Tea Extract).

Despite the instantaneous hair removal claim on their ads you seem to need to leave the cream on for up to 20 minutes (which is far longer than products like Nair hair removal cream) and unfortunately this is still not long enough to remove hair in some cases with this product but if you have fine hair then it probably does work as a hair removal cream. Giving the benefit of the doubt here, instantaneous means you don’t have to wait weeks for the hair to fall out. You can remove hair as soon as you carry out the treatment.

How about inhibiting hair growth – the important factor which makes it worth shelling out a bit extra for this product than standard hair removal creams? There are no studies to show that this cream has ingredients like Vaniqa which are clinically proven to reduce hair growth (Vaniqa is only available under medical supervision). In any case (and Revitol make this clear in their advertising) you need repeated use even if the claims are correct.

As Revitol hair removal cream (at around $20 a bottle!) is so much more expensive than other hair removal creams and requires so much longer to work (if it works for you) I believe you are better using something like Nair or saving your pennies for something more permanent like laser hair removal or electrolysis which will prove far cheaper and give you better results in the long term.

Although the manufacturers of Revitol hair removal cream don’t make too many outrageous claims on their site. (They are not claiming permanent hair removal for example) I really think there are better ways of removing hair.

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Finally Free Hair Removal System Review

Written by on August 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The Finally Free hair removal system is a home electrolysis type product which is supposed to kill hair by gripping with special tweezers through which you send a weak current before pulling the hair out.

Apparently you have to grip the hair with the tweezer for around 30 seconds. This is going to be a long slow process especially as you have to catch hair during its growth phase to kill the follicle and prevent it growing back.

Finally Free Hair Removal System

Finally Free Hair Removal System

This means you probably have to treat many of your unwanted hairs more than once. (That’s not unusual. It’s the same for every method of permanent hair removal including professional electrolysis but usually it does not take 30 seconds to treat each hair either).

The Finally Free system is advertised as permanently removing hair in two to four treatments. They say it is a painless and clinically proven way to permanently remove unwanted hair and that it uses radio frequency to deaden hair at the root and is “as effective as electrolysis”

Not according to the buyers on Amazon it isn’t and it seems that the company have stopped selling there due to low ratings and so many scathing reviews such as

“Do not buy this product. it does not work, and it is a pain to think that this product got my hopes up to permanently remove embarrassing hairs. All I have to say is, Finally Free will be be Finally Chucked in the Garbage for me.

Don’t believe anybody who writes that this product works, because it does not and cannot – the whole concept of killing hair roots by electric current is false and utopic because it’s been proved that the hair is not an electric current transistor (even if it’s completely wet, the electric current won’t penetrate below the skin surface).

Note that the probe/needle used in true electrolysis has to be inserted beside the hair follicle for the current to do it’s job.

According to the FDA, there is no statistically significant data available (even from their “published trials” which I had no luck in locating) to support claims of long-term or permanent hair removal through use of tweezer-type epilators. Bottom line…check the advertiser’s claims before you buy their product because obviously these claims don’t hold water!”

See all reviews of the Finally Free system

Bottom line is, don’t buy the Finally Free hair removal system because it won’t work for you or anyone else. Home electrolysis is not ideal. I would much prefer you attend a professional but if it is the best solution for you take a look at our review of the One Touch Permanent Hair Remover system – still not perfect but it seems that genuine buyers have had some success with this one.

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