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Hair removal with sugar

Alexey Portnov, medical expert
Last reviewed: 20.11.2021

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Shugaring (English sugar - sugar) - such a beautiful and "sweet" word is a rather cruel procedure for getting rid of hair. Hair removal with sugar has been known since Nefertiti, and then Cleopatra. Actually, it was with the Egyptian queen that the evolution of shugaring began, and many other magnificent cosmetic procedures. Clearly, Cleopatra was not a timid woman, ready to suffer pain for the sake of beauty.

The sugar procedure, as well as other methods of epilation, has its pros and cons, including such:

Advantages, advantages	Disadvantages
Availability, absence of contraindications	It takes a lot of time, both for the preparation of the composition, and for the process itself (stage-by-stage processing of small areas)
Absence of micro-traumas, cuts	The composition, the consistency of an effective sugar mixture is very difficult to pick up, therefore tests are carried out in small areas of the skin
The procedure is carried out along the hair growth line, so there is no danger of their ingrowth	The procedure is painful, even when preparing for it
Sugar mixture is able to remove even the most inconspicuous, small hairs	Shugaring is not suitable for very long and dense hair, as well as very short (less than 3 millimeters)
The composition of the paste includes only natural remedies, so sugar removal of hair has virtually no contraindications	Relative contraindication is diabetes mellitus. Although there are no statistics of complications after slouching, it is still not worth risking diabetics

How to do hair removal with sugar?

We prepare the "sweet" pasta:

8-10 tablespoons of sugar.
1 tablespoon of water.
Lemon juice - you need to squeeze half a fresh, juicy lemon.
All mix, heat on very slow fire, constantly mixing. The composition should acquire a light brown golden hue.
Cool the mixture to a viscous consistency and the ability to touch it with your fingers (the mixture should not stick to the hand).

Before preparing the mixture, you need to prepare the skin, it must be clean and dry.
Sugar compounds are applied to the skin in the direction of hair growth. The procedure is performed using a small wooden spatula (narrow blade) in small areas of the skin and repeated throughout the growth zone of unwanted hair in stages.
On top of the mixture put a cotton cloth (strips), pressing it to the body.
The mixture remains on the skin for literally 1-2 minutes, then the tissue breaks sharply parallel to the skin, against the growth of the hair. If you separate the fabric diagonally from the edge, you can get small bruises on the skin. Sugar mixture is best tear off with a sharp movement upwards, grasping both ends of the fabric strip.
After removing hair with sugar it is enough to take a bath or shower, the remnants of a sweet mixture are very easily washed off.
The procedure can be repeated after 3-4 weeks, as a rule, the hair begins to grow only after 20-25 days.

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