Hair Removal Systems

What are the safest hair removal systems for people with sensitive skin? Thankfully, there are several options that can and do work for those with skin that's more prone to redness or inflammation.

The difficulty people with sensitive skin encounter when it comes to hair removal are that most popular techniques cause problems in one way or another. The skin can become very red, inflamed, or can be burned or damaged, depending on the technique being used.

It's essential that people with sensitive skin search out safer hair removal systems for eliminating unwanted and unsightly hair from their bodies.

Sugaring or Sugar Waxing

Sugaring or sugar waxing is much safer and healthier for sensitive skin than traditional waxing. The ingredients for sugaring are real - water, sugar, essential oils, and lemon juice.

There's nothing harmful or synthetic in a sugaring recipe, unlike the synthetic waxes used for years to remove hair. A sugaring paste or wax is washed off with pure water rather than using yet another chemical to remove it, which means only the dead skin cells are sloughed off when you rinse.

Regular waxing will not only remove unwanted hair, it will also take your healthy skin off too.

Nutritional Approaches

Some women swear by spearmint tea! They say that by drinking a few cups of quality spearmint tea each day, they have noticed a decrease in the amount of hair re-growth.

Losing weight, according to the experts, can also help inhibit the growth of hair. Excess weight triggers the hormones within the body that stimulate hair growth - losing the weight decreases these hormones, which means you can enjoy less hair re-growth over time.

Eating a healthy, balanced diet keeps insulin levels intact. Poor nutrition has been linked to increased hair growth, most likely because the body's balance is out of whack. Eat fresh vegetables, fruit, lean proteins, whole grains, and healthy fats, and you'll enjoy less hair growth.

Safe Hair Removal Creams

There are a few hair removal creams on the market that seems to work for some people with sensitive skin. The challenge is to find hair removal systems with safer and more gentle ingredients, but that still work well!

One of the best reviewed of the natural hair removal creams is the Moom Organic Hair Removal Kit which contains certified organic ingredients for natural sugar waxing.

Moom comes with environmentally friendly, reuseable cloth strips and wooden spatulas and the ingredients are very simple: Sugar, Lemon, Chamomile, Water, Tea Tree Oil ... some have added natural essential oils such as Rose or Lavender.

Most people who reviewed the Moom organic Hair Removal Kit were very happy with the results, although some people said that it did not remove fine hairs very well, so they needed to repeat the treatment sooner than the recommended 8 weeks.

This is a natural product so you may want to store it in a cool, dry place, or in the refridgerator so that it will stay fresh.

Another popular natural hair removal product is Revitol which you can find online or in health food stores because it doesn't contain too many synthetic or irritating chemicals.

This product is applied and left on the skin for twenty minutes, and it is intented to dissolve the hair at the root. The ingredients are definitely safer than other types of hair removal creams, however it does contain some fragrance and so could be irritating to some people with sensitive skin.

This product has a smell that some people do not like, and it's a bit more time consuming to use than convenional over the counter hair removal creams like Nair, but it seems to treat the skin gently with very little burning, irritation, or redness.

Some people who purchased this product online from the company found their customers service was not satisfactory, so be sure to purchase from a reputable dealer, or purchase Revitol on Amazon which has a good return policy.

Threading - One of the Newest Hair Removal Systems

Sensitive skin seems to react well to this technique for removing unwanted hair in the facial area. A simple cotton thread in the hands of a professional is rolled across the surface of the skin in a methodical manner, catching the hair in the thread and pulling it out at the roots.

Skin doesn't seem to get irritated by the threading and no synthetic chemicals are used on the skin. This technique is easier on the budget than laser hair removal, but must be performed at least twice a month to effectively inhibit the re-growth of hair.

Waxing Using Honey

Honey is one of the purest ingredients that could be used in on sensitive skin. Waxing with a mixture that is primarily honey is very effective in removing hair from sensitive skin.

Combine honey with pure lemon juice and water and it can be used to remove unwanted hair successfully. Some people like it better than the sugar wax because it doesn't require as long of a cooking time to be effective.

Laser Hair Removal

Believe it or not, this technique can work for people with sensitive skin in some cases. It's vital to ask the physician performing the laser technique if he has worked with sensitive skin previously.

Also inquire about the laser itself - does it have a cooling tip that will cool the skin as it goes across? This small detail could mean the difference between successful hair removal without irritation and successful hair removal with irritated skin as a by-product.

You have sensitive skin - you know the value of asking questions and getting all the information available before engaging in any of the hair removal systems available on today's market. We hope that one of these methods will work for you and give you the smooth, beautiful, hairless skin you desire!