EXCESSIVE BODY HAIR – GENERAL INFORMATION

Shaving is probably the most used method and can be done by a blade or an electric shaver. While most women seem happy to shave their legs and under their arms, they have a reluctance to shave their faces, perhaps because it seems unfeminine.

Many still believe shaving tends to increase hair growth and to make it coarser. Tests have shown that hairs cut across by shaving have a stubbly appearance and feel, but do not become thicker or harder.

Chemical means of removing hairs are available and effective. They may irritate sensitive skins and have little benefit over shaving, except that the regrowth does not feel as rough as after shaving.

Plucking the hairs is the most popular means of reducing the number in the eyebrows and is effective elsewhere. It is painful and may lead to irritation of the follicles.

Waxing, using either hot or cold wax, has the same effect as plucking — it pulls the hairs out from the follicle and the hair may take from two to six weeks to regrow.

Electrolysis or burning out the hair follicle by an electric current is a popular method of treatment. If the hair follicle is destroyed, there should be no regrowth and permanent cure results, but this is not easy to achieve.

Repeated treatments are usually necessary and some hairs in their “resting” stage may not be destroyed. This method may lead to inflammation and even to scarring or an increase in pigmentation.

So there is no one satisfactory method of clearing those unwanted and unsightly hairs.

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