Home Laser Hair Removal Gives You the Longest Lasting Solution (I)

by Ellis Carroll New Home Laser Hair Removal Method! Ten Little Secrets THEY Don't Want You to Know About Hair Removal You are done with the shaving, waxing and the mess. It is time to find out exactly which laser method is proper for you - Doctor's workplace, expert, or perhaps a convenient home system. Introduction As an esthetician for more than 7 years one of the most requested services in our spa was hair removal. In the few years since home laser hair removal became an option, the units have gotten better, and these days one is six times faster than most Doctor's office lasers. It comes back to what's the most effective method for you. But the option isn't clear because the differences are hard to discover. In the spa, no other service produced more concerns, fears, and frustration. Historic home laser hair removal discovery! In addition to Doctor's office laser and esthetician spa treatments, girls since the time of Cleopatra aimed to eliminate undesirable hair to make their body more desirable. While a list of factors would include: smooth skin, greater femininity, medical, religious, cultural, and athletic. Most methods delivered short lived results. Even the hair burning machines like NoNo offer just two weeks before re-growth at best, and waxing is too painful for me. 20th Century methods don't work very long Over 2000 years, hair cutting evolved to shaving. You can even buy a hot wire device to 'crystallized' the hair by burning, and that smells bad too. Waxing and tweezing evolved from sugaring and epilating. Today these categories include: waxing, tweezing, electronic epilators, depilatory creams and electrolysis. After 20 centuries, traditional home and spa treatments require repetition and only work short term. Next, the quest for a perfect, permanent hair removal solution gave us the electrolysis treatments, one hair at a time. In four years you are done! I wouldn't hold my breath for that one. The 21st Century practical solution works, but you might go broke! The ruthless pursuit of perfection led to hair removal by Light Amplification by Simulated Emission of Radiation aka L.A.S.E.R. Engineers working with Doctors developed office use laser treatment devices that promised to be the Moses of hair removal. We could finally be free of natures curse, hair in unwanted places. It seemed like Moses leading us to the Promised Land. As the data came in, it was clear laser hair removal actually delivered long term results. Several companies within the US and Europe went to work on building affordable systems for home use. Well, it turns out laser is not for everyone. Why? Because of type and pigmentation of skin. Hair science 101 There are two points that you must consider when buying a home laser hair removal device. Those are follicle phase and hair pigmentation. Your hair cycles between an active phase and a dormant phase that is not predictable with certainty. This means each hair has a mind of its own on when to go dormant. There's another factor: how long will the hair be inactive? Only active hairs can effectively be eliminated by the laser. So, to zap all the little critters takes a number of treatments to catch 'em when they are active! The second point is the color of the hair vs your skin. Due to the way the laser light is absorbed by the actual hair, the hair pigment must differ significantly from the skin pigment. If your hair is too light or has little pigment, the laser might not detect it. If your skin is too dark the laser could cause your skin to overheat. The combination of blond hair and a dark suntan are not good for laser treatments. At least six laser treatments are required at 2-4 week intervals to do a good job of permanent hair removal. In the doctor's office these treatments cost upwards of several thousand dollars to treat legs, arms and armpits. For most persons this budget is out of reach and they settle for some lesser method. Nowadays there are alternative for home laser hair removal. (to be continued)