Anna Lin

If you want freedom from shaving, tweezing, hair removal creams, waxing, threading, and other temporary means of eradicating unwanted hairs, the best answer for you is the permanent laser hair removal. Epilation or the removal of unwanted hair, including the parts of hair below the skin surface was already being performed for experimental reasons twenty years ago.  It has now been commercialized and introduced to the market during the 1990.

Laser hair removal methods are sometimes referred to as “phototricholysis” or “photoepilation”.  Other methods of permanently removing unwanted hairs is through the use of light-based epilators like the Xenon Flash Lamp that produces an intense pulse light and is the most popularly known method and we call it laser hair removal though it does not use laser per se.

Laser hair removal can be the best solution for people who have bumps, ingrown hairs, and darker skin brought about by shaving.

Advertising Permanently

There is a misleading concept when advertisers say that laser methods of removing the hair are permanent. The truth is that the advertised permanent laser hair removal is false since most of the laser treatment only uses IPL or Intense Light Pulse machines and does not eternally make your skin stop producing unwanted hairs. The advertised permanent laser hair removal is misleading in the sense that, the treatment only reduces the hair permanently and not permanently removes it.

In the year 1998, to somehow give light to the issue that the permanent laser hair removal is causing, FDA regulator, Richard Felten issued a clearance to only advertise the words “permanent laser hair reduction” instead of “permanent laser hair removal” since the treatment lets the hair grow only lighter in color and finer. One needs to follow up with electrolysis to completely clear out the unwanted hairs in the skin area.Â

Six to eight sessions of treatments should be done to achieve a significant hair removal. However, there are other factors that are to be considered as to how many treatments you need to undergo to like your skin color, texture of hair, the area to be treated, and history of temporary methods that you used to remove hairs.

So if you are really looking for a method to remove unwanted hairs, always remember that there is no truth in advertised permanent laser hair removal but there is still a way to permanently get rid of them. Only electrolysis is the only method of permanently removing hair and it has been in use since the past 125 years. It treats the hair one at a time and it would take a long while to treat a certain area. Most people would have their unwanted hairs be treated first with IPL or the Intense Light Pulse or laser and follow it with electrolysis for a permanent result.