The Best Hair Removal: What Do You Want?
What is the best hair removal? It all depends on what you want. You can look high and low and all you will find about hair removal is that there is no magical one size fits all solution to banishing unattractive and unwanted hair.
First take into account that hair grows in numerous places on your body. The places hair grows is sometimes delicate and sensitive and sometimes tougher. Each individual’s hormones and genetic makeup, pre-dispose them to varying thicknesses of hair growth on those parts. People have different types of hair. Hair growth comes from your skin layer, so your skin is an intimate part of the hair equation. People have different types of skin. All these factors mean that the best hair removal method overall (drum roll) does not exist in the world today.
Going over the many ways to remove hair, there’s good old shaving, depilatory creams and lotions, waxing, electrolysis, laser treatments and a few other modern inventions to get the job done. Within all of these methods, are different techniques of removing the hair.
Back To Basics
With shaving today, there are an array of electric shavers for men and women, and among those are simple ones with tried and true designs, but also fancy versions that are waterproof, have triple heads, rotating blades, built-in trimmers, steam and shave cream dispensers. In the shaving arena, non-electric manual razors also go minimal but the variety of multiple blades, pivoting blades, and integrated shaving lubrication heads is astounding.
For depilatories, there are now more than one or two old fashioned brands for sale, they smell better than they used to, they irritate skin less, they work faster and leave soothing moisturizers behind on the skin. With waxing there are application kits for whole swaths of hair removal on large areas and there are melting pots of wax to be applied with spatulas.
Electrolysis has been around for some time but with better technology and equipment now available, the method has evolved into the singular method of hair removal that is truly permanent without fail. In an even higher realm of high tech hair removal method is Laser hair removal. In this industry the laser technologies have advanced more rapidly than any other. However this presents the problem of obsolete equipment along side of state of the art Lasers. In the field of electrolysis and lasers there is also do-it-yourself devices to do the job at home.
So what is the best?
While the best hair removal method does not exist, there are ones that are better than others for certain body areas, different hair and skin types, and also whether your desire is for permanent or temporary hair removal.
Every hair removal method has its drawbacks and downfalls. Every hair removal method has its positive aspects too. Determining the best hair removal method is always a question of, "What do you want?” After that, certain methods can be eliminated for particular situations and others considered as potential processes to use.
As old as the hills perhaps, plain old shaving seems to be the best overall hair removal method for general use on all skin types, hair types, and body areas. You have to do it over and over to keep the hair off. You already knew that though and were looking for something more glamorous.
Go high tech, go low tech, do it yourself, or professional, there is nothing that is the best for everything and everyone. Spend a little, spend a lot, you won’t find the perfect hair removal method for all occasions. Maybe it is a dream of the future, but right now, it does not exist.