About Laser Hair Removal
Body hairs, whether you love them or hate them, are valuable allies
to our metabolism. They are antennas that tell us if our skin hot or
cold. When cold or overheated the hair will react to temperature changes
by contracting or relaxing.
The hairs also have a protective role in some of the most sensitive
parts of our anatomy, for example, the hairs in the nose and ears filter
out impurities. Since the dawn of time civilizations have tried to
remove the hair a symbol of animal past.
In Babylon, kings and queens were fond of using a tweezers and a bronze
depilatory cream that was a mixture of wax, water, sugar and lemon all
cooked together.
In China, long before our era, women removed their eyebrows, replacing
them with a dash of black crayon, which was considered more graceful.
The pharaoh Ramses III imposed on his harem a waxing of the full body.
In Rome, young men of good society were fond of shaving their legs; the
more refined did not hesitate to withdraw the hairs on the body by
plucking.
Various techniques were used: incandescent nutshell, pine resin or the
blood of bats to smooth away hairs from the eyebrows. These options
continued up to the Middle Ages. With the Crusades, Westerners are
discovering techniques of hair removal that came from the Middle East
and Africa, soft waxes and natural gums. Some North African women had a
habit of using blood from a frog or ash mixed with vinegar.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the advent of sea bathing and
wearing clothes shorter would bring the ‘taste du jour’ of waxing legs,
armpits and legs.
These days we have moved on from frog’s blog removal creams to the
somewhat more refined use of laser hair removal for a smooth lasting
appearance that is far more effective than shaving or waxing.
Lasers themselves have only been around since 1960, the first time a
device was used to remove hairs was in 1979, but the treatment never
took of as it was ineffective and produced very inconsistent results,
then in 1995 a new hair killing laser was patented and has been in
effective use since 1997.
The laser is not the ‘death ray’ of science fiction movies it is an
incredibly precise removal system that targets an individual hair
follicle blasting it with a minute laser light beam rendering it dead
and when performed on each hair in a selected area leaves a very smooth
final effect. |
