It sounds brilliant doesn’t it? At home electrolysis hair removal – the means to deal with your unwanted hair in the calm and privacy of your own home without making appointments or shelling out huge amounts for professional treatments. What could be better?

I have to admit the idea has a lot going for it. It’s just that if you have the cash I think it’s still probably best to put yourself in the hands of the experts who have trained long and hard to effectively treat your unwanted hair as quickly as possible.

I know, I know. You don’t have the cash for professional electrolysis services (or it’s difficult for you to get to appointments due to other commitments) and you’re desperate for a solution. If that’s the case then a low-cost home electrolysis machine might just suit you provided you are willing to spend time getting to know the machine and your skin and hair with lots of practice.

Many people expect to buy a system such as the One Touch home electrolysis machine (the best of the home electrolysis kits on the market) and be able to whisk away their excess hair overnight. It’s just not going to happen like that I’m afraid (and would not even if you had professional electrolysis). Unwanted hair is not so happy to be done away with and has some determination to stick around. So you have to be just as determined to deal with each and every hair to get rid of it for good.

To succeed you have to

a) put the probe into the hair follicle at the right place
b) give it a strong enough current to kill it
c) catch it at the right time

Even trained electrologists need to treat hairs several times to get them at just the right point so it’s important not to give up too soon. If you believe you have the patience to succeed take a look at our One Touch review which will give you an idea about whether this (or indeed any other home electrolysis hair removal) is right for you or not.

If you have decided that you would like to try electrolysis to permanently remove hair but are hesitating about embarking on months of costly treatment you may have thought about investing in an electrolysis machine to carry out the treatment yourself at home.

If you are thinking of buying a home electrolysis machine you need to be aware that there are a quite a few that don’t work. I’ll say more on that in a moment but first of all I want to make sure it is clear that even those electrolysis home kits which work are not for everyone. I have written about this before but I’ll say it again in case you are new to this site.

You see you need quite a bit of patience to carry out electrolysis on yourself. The operators of a professional electrolysis machine are trained beauticians and they go through a stringent certification before they are let loose on the public. So it stands to reason that you can’t immediately dive in and whisk away all your hair in 5 minutes.

Also the process itself can be slow as you are working on each individual hair. You will be surprised at how many little unwanted hairs there are in a square inch of skin. And you need to catch each one at the right stage of growth – or it grows back!

If you are thinking of treating your face, I would also advise that you get a bit of practice on less sensitive areas of the body and work up to any more sensitive areas. All in all this can take a fair bit of time. But then so does professional electrolysis. In that too you have to treat each individual hair at the right stage of growth.

If you think you do have the necessary patience and want to try out electrolysis at home avoid any system that says it works by grasping the hair and shooting an electric current through it. These systems are ineffective for permanently removing hair.

The electrolysis systems which work are those with a probe which you insert into the hair follicle without breaking the skin. The only system that exists like this as far as I know for the home market is the One Touch. Take a look at the Reviews on Amazon and see what you think. They are not all good by far but you won’t see any system with better reviews because of the inherent difficulty in the electrolysis process (unless the reviews are fake that is!)