From times beyond memory, women looked for means to eliminate unwanted body hair - from Egyptian depilation to wax, epilator and little creams. Today we have modern lasers and electrolyses. Here are a few methods that are most commonly used today.

Unwanted body hair can sometimes be a serious problem. They could make you feel uncomfortable and undesirable – especially during summer. In that case, it is best to remove them or, at least, hide from other people's sight. To achieve that, here are several methods you can try.

Hair removal is one of the most demanded treatments in beauty salons. When you go shopping you can see dozens of different products that are serving that purpose, or, at least, provide temporary satisfaction. Luckily, there are several methods for hair removal and these are the most common ones and the most efficient ones.

1. Epilators are electrical devices that are removing unwanted body hair. These devices are designed to remove several little hairs from their root at once, and that slows their further growth. This method is mainly designed for home use. Epilators are used on legs and hands, and the results are lasting for several weeks.






2. Plucking is another method of hair removal, and this process, which implies plucking of individual little hairs mostly on the face area, is done with tweezers. The results are lasting for about three weeks. Unfortunately, this method is very painful. 

3. Waxing is the most spread method of body hair removal. It’s one of the oldest and most efficient treatments. Its advantage over the others is wax, which is cheap. It can be performed on any part of the body and it gives long-lasting results. Besides removing the hairs from their root, waxing also removes and a dead layer of the skin, which makes your skin look smooth and shiny. Regular use of this treatment damages the root of body hairs, and because of that, they are growing slower, and sometimes they even stop growing at all.

4.  Egyptian or Persian depilation is being done with paste made of sugar, water and lemon juice. Its procedure is identical to waxing. It’s a cheaper solution and amazingly effective. It dates from 1900 B.C. when the body free of body hairs was an imperative of beauty, youth and innocence in the old Egypt.







5. There are also gels, foams and creams for depilation that are chemically removing body hair. The procedure is simple and it can be done just a few minutes after shower. You apply the product on the desired area, wait a few minutes, and then you wash it out from your skin or remove it with spatula. This is one of relatively expensive but not sufficiently efficient methods. It gives you only temporary results – 2-5 days. 





6. Electrolyses or depilation with electricity is the only truly permanent method of body hair removal. In every follicle of a hair a small needle is put in.  This needle is destroying the root of a hair with electricity. After that, every hair is being individually removed with tweezers.







7. Laser body hair removal is a method that is becoming very popular, mostly because it is painless and has long-lasting results. This depilation is performed with a laser that is producing a beam of light. The laser’s beam is passing through the skin and reaching the hair’s follicle. The follicle is absorbing the light and destroys itself.






8. A lot of women are preferring the traditional way of depilation, shaving with a razor, which is cheap, easy and quick. The negative side of this procedure is short term result – new hairs are growing after 2-3 days, and every time they are more stronger than before.






9. However, if you want to camouflage the fact that you are hairy on some areas where you don’t want body hairs, you can always whiten them with special creams. Such creams are applied only on beginning moustaches and face hairs. Your body hair will loose its pigmentation and become more transparent, but that will not remove them and your skin will not be smoother and more pleasant to touch.