Hair Removal Lotions – Hang On To Your Razors
Hair removal lotions are replacing the need of razors. For many woman, this is nothing short of a miracle. Many women over look the important caution warnings that appear on the bottle labels.
Some of the hair removal products, such as Nair, Veet, and Sally Hansen hair removal, all warn that the product can cause an allergic reaction. If your skin is sensitive, discolored, or if you have a rash, you should not use any of these products. All of the
hair removal products available have the ability to irritate and burn skin.
Producing chemical skin burns are the one thing they all have in common with each other. Each of the products have slightly corrosive ingredients. Calcium Hydroxide is a main ingredient that is found in all of these hair removal products. Even though this is a hair removal ingredient you’ll find it in brake pads, 2000 Flushes Automatic Bowl cleaner, and mortar.
There are recommended tests to perform on a small patch of skin where you would apply a tiny amount of hair removal, rinse, then wait 24 hours for any reaction. It’s highly recommended to perform this test before every use. Even if you used this product before, always retest.
Some hair removal products must be rinsed within 10 minutes, some sooner that that but no longer, and always use clear clean water without soap.
If you experience an allergic reaction, it’s usually a rash that will go away after a couple days or skin irritation with minor red bumps. In some cases, the reaction can be so sever a trip to the emergency room is necessary. After using Veet, they suggest not to use any antiperspirants, perfume, or astringent lotions for the next 24 hours. Soaking up the sun or swimming is not recommended after use either.
Hair removal products work by dissolving your hair. In about 3 minutes time, you can remove Veet using the bladeless razor they supply. Always rinse with clean water even after using the bladeless razor.
Sally Hansen lotion bottle carries a more cautious warning on their label stating ‘For External Use Only’ and has a strong odor. You must use care whine applying because like all hair removal products, they cause damage to bathroom accessories.
You’ll notice all hair removal products have similar caution and warnings on their labels. Although hair removal products will remove hair fast, the fact is you do not have to shave daily, plus when not used as directed, all hair removal products can cause health risks.
I think I’m allergic to Nair Hair Remover Lotion
I think I’m allergic to Nair Hair Remover Lotion
I’ve always had Nair hair removal lotion in the home. I don’t know why, for some reason I remain confident that it had better work. It seems like the most easygoing solution, and the fastest too. Besides trying to pull or cut the hair off, you simply melt it away with acid. Sounds fair to me!
Regrettably every time I get close to to trying Nair hair removal lotion again, I am reminded why I do not use it. The one I happened to try today was the Nair Hair Remover Lotion with Aloe Vera. This had better be double good, right? Not only does it melt away your hairs, but it comforts your skin afterwards.
Believe me, I follow all the book of instructions very carefully. First I soak in warm water for at least 1/2 hour to soften up the hairs. Then I shake the Nair hair removal lotion well and apply it on the legs thickly without rubbing it in. The hair is definitely coated. Then I wait 15 minutes (the longest allowable time) before attempting to wipe it off. Nothing happens. Maybe a couple of hairs are removed, but the vast majority persist.
Not only that, but anyone who tells you that this “acid” can tell the divergence between your constituent hair and your organic skin is lying. It hurts to have this cream sitting on your entire legs for 15 minutes. I think of it as ‘beauty torture’. When I’m done, not only do I still have my leg hair left, but I now have red bumps where the acid got into pores and caused irritation. I wouldn’t mind the temporary irritation (gone the next day) if the hair in reality vanished too. But noooooooooooooooooo.
I did actually take pictures of my legs after the nairing to show how unaffected (and still hairy) they were. I’ll try to load those up on my internet site. But unless you’ve really fine baby hair (and if you do, why are you obsessing about removing them?) then Nair hair removal lotion actually does not seem to work well.
I would think that searing pain was an essential for hair removal lotion, but I accept I tried other lotions that have NO pain associated with them, so I’m not quite sure what Nair hair removal lotionis doing here. I think I must just have an allergy to something in the hair removal lotion. Which is why it is a good job that I read the instructions on the hair removal lotion and tried it on a small sample of skin first and left it for 24 hours
Unwanted Hair on my Nipples – Question
Question
I have unwanted hair on my nipples, lower back and stomach. I have a great body but I feel that I can’t wear bikini’s or go topless because I find my unwanted hair problem too embarrassing. I have heard of most of the treatments available but wondered what to do next to get rid of my unwanted hair especially on my nipples.
Answer
Unwanted hair is a common and most people who are affected have had the unwanted hair since puberty. Most cases of unwanted hair are genetic, some races naturally have more unwanted hair than others and the is also a natural variation within each individual genetic grouping.
There are numerous ways of removing unwanted hair such as hair removal creams or hair removal lotions for soft downy blonde hair on the upper lip, plucking for the eyebrows, waxing and even old fashioned shaving.
There is also a form of electrolysis using the tweeze method. An electrical current is passed through special tweezers which grip the unwanted hair shaft. The current conducts through the unwanted hair shaft and into the unwanted hair root. The unwanted hair root is destroyed by the electric current. The process is not without its critics, and some people have claimed this method can cause skin damage and scarring to the area surrounding the unwanted hair
Laser treatment is reckoned to be particularly successful at removing unwanted dark hair. Laser hair removal generally needs several treatments and is currently the most expensive hair removal method. The results are said to be the most permanent.
How I glued my private parts to the toilet and why I use hair removal lotion now
All hair removal methods have tricked women with their promises of easy, painless removal – The Epilady, scissors, razors, Hair removal lotion, Nair and now…the wax.
My night began as any other normal weeknight. Come home, fix dinner, play with the kids. I then had the thought that would ring painfully in my mind for the next few hours: “Maybe I should pull the waxing kit out of the medicine cabinet.”
So I headed to the site of my demise: the bathroom. It was one of those “cold wax” kits. No melting a clump of hot wax, you just rub the strips together in your hand, they get warm and you peel them apart and press them to your leg (or wherever else) and you pull the hair right off. No muss, no fuss. How hard can it be? I mean, I’m not a genius, but I am mechanically inclined enough to figure this out. (YA THINK!?!)
So I pull one of the thin strips out. Its two strips facing each other stuck together. Instead of rubbing them together, my genius kicks in so I get out the hair dryer and heat it to 1000 degrees. (“Cold wax,” yeah…right!) I lay the strip across my thigh. Hold the skin around it tight and pull. It works!
OK, so it wasn’t the best feeling, but it wasn’t too bad. I can do this!
Hair removal no longer eludes me! I am She-rah, fighter of all wayward body hair and maker of smooth skin extraordinaire.
With my next wax strip I move north. After checking on the kids, I sneak back into the bathroom, for the ultimate hair fighting championship. I drop my panties and place one foot on the toilet.
Using the same procedure, I apply the wax strip across the right side of my bikini line, covering the right half of my hoo-ha and stretching down to the inside of my butt cheek (it was a long strip)
I inhale deeply and brace myself….RRRRRRIIIIPPP!!!!
I’m blind!!! Blinded from pain!!!!…
OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!!!
Vision returning, I notice that I’ve only managed to pull off half the strip. CRAP! Another deep breath and RIPP! Everything is spinning and spotted. I think I may pass out…must stay conscious…must stay conscious. Do I hear crashing drums??? Breathe, breathe……………… OK, back to normal.
I want to see my trophy – a wax covered strip, the one that has caused me so much pain, with my hairy pelt sticking to it. I want to revel in the glory that is my triumph over body hair.
I hold up the strip!
There’s no hair on it.
Where is the hair???
WHERE IS THE WAX???
Slowly I ease my head down, foot still perched on the toilet. I see the hair. The hair that should be on the strip…it’s not! I touch. I am touching wax.
I run my fingers over the most sensitive part of my body, which is now covered in cold wax and matted hair. Then I make the next BIG mistake…remember my foot is still propped upon the toilet? I know I need to do something. So I put my foot down.
Sealed shut! My butt is sealed shut. Sealed shut! Why didn’t I choose hair removal lotion ?
I penguin walk around the bathroom trying to figure out what to do and think to myself “Please don’t let me get the urge to poop. My head may pop off!” What can I do to melt the wax?
Hot water!! Hot water melts wax!! I’ll run the hottest water I can stand into the bathtub, get in, immerse the wax-covered bits and the wax should melt and I can gently wipe it off, right???
*WRONG!!!!!!!*
I get in the tub – The water is slightly hotter than that used to torture prisoners of war or sterilize surgical equipment – I sit. Now, the only thing worse than having your nether regions glued together, is having them glued together and then glued to the bottom of the tub…in scalding hot water. Which, by the way, doesn’t melt cold wax.
So, now I’m stuck to the bottom of the tub as though I had cemented myself to the porcelain!! God bless the man who had convinced me a few months ago to have a phone put in the bathroom!!!!! I call my friend, thinking surely she has waxed before and has some secret of how to get me undone. It’s a very good conversation starter “So, my butt and hoo-ha are glued together to the bottom of the tub!” I wish I’d used hair removal lotion.
There is a slight pause. She doesn’t know any secret tricks for removal but she does try to hide her laughter from me. She wants to know exactly where the wax is located, “Are we talking cheeks or hole or hoo-ha?”
She’s laughing out loud by now…I can hear her. I give her the rundown and she suggests I call the number on the side of the box. I wish I’d used hair removal lotion.
YEAH!!!!! Right!!
I should be the joke of someone else’s night. While we go through various solutions I resort to trying to scrape the wax off with a razor . Nothing feels better than to have your girlie goodies covered in hot wax, glued shut, stuck to the tub in super hot water and then dry-shaving the sticky wax off!!
By now the brain is not working, dignity has taken a major hike and I’m pretty sure I’m going to need Post-Traumatic Stress counseling for this event.
My friend is still talking with me when I finally see my saving grace….the lotion they give you to remove the excess wax. I wish I’d used hair removal lotion.
What do I really have to lose at this point? I rub some on and OH MY GOD!!!!!!!
The scream probably woke the kids and scared the dickens out of my friend. It’s sooo painful, but I really don’t care.
“IT WORKS!!
It works !!” I get a hearty congratulation from my friend and she hangs up. I successfully remove the remainder of the wax and then notice to my grief and despair….
THE HAIR IS STILL THERE…….ALL OF IT!
So I recklessly shave it off. Heck, I’m numb by now. Nothing hurts.
I could have amputated my own leg at this point.
Now wouldn’t it be better to use hair removal lotion ?
Thanks to
Charles Oakes
Fruity Homemade Hair Removal Lotion
Hair removal lotion can be expensive to buy, when I was looking for the cheapest best value hair removal lotion I stumbled upon a recipe to make your own hair removal lotion. I must stress its not my recipe, and you can’t always believe everything you read on the internet ! You will however know exactly what’s in your home-made hair removal lotion – no nasty chemicals.
The recipe is as follows to make your own hair removal lotion:
1lb sugar, 2 lemons, 1 1/2 teaspoons of glycerin, and several strips of cotton muslin.
You can buy Glycerin at craft stores, pharmacists, medical stores or drug stores. Cotton Muslin can be found in craft stores and DIY stores, it often is sold in long legths which you can cut to size.
The first part of making your own hair removal lotion is to squeeze two lemons, then heat up and melt the sugar, and the lemons to the melted sugar and simmer while stiring gently until it turns to a pale golen colour. Finally add the gycerin and mix it all together.
Place the mixture in a cool place and allow it to set. This can take a few hours. MAKE SURE IT IS COLD before proceeding.
Its good advice to test on a small area of skin first as a precaution against allergies.
Apply the home made hair removal lotion with a spatula to your body in the direction of hair growth. Push a strip of cotton muslin down onto the hair removal lotion and press firmly several times.
Pull the cloth away from your skin in the opposite direction to the hair growth. It should be no more painful than removing a plaster.
Again common sense suggests trying small areas first until you master the technique.
The cloths can be washed and reused.You can wash and reuse the muslin cloths over and over. This homemade hair removal lotion should keep you free from unwanted hair for several weeks. Regrowth could be thinner as well.
