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 With innovative
solutions, Braun helps millions of modern men be well-shaved and well-groomed at
all times. Braun offers a broad choice of electric shavers for a close and
gentle shave, special appliances taking care of men's varying beard care needs
and a complete range of replacement parts to secure consistently high
performance standards.
Tweezing and Shaving
Tweezing works for about three weeks. Tweezers
vary in price from about $2.60 for Revlon's Deluxe Slant Tip Tweezer and $6.50
for Revlon's Micro-Fine version, to $22 for Tweezerman Tweezers.
Shaving results in the reappearance of facial
hair on men in one day but lasts about 4 days on body hair. Some of the new
razors, like the new triple blade Gillette razor, cut the hair shaft closer to
the skin and can add about one day to traditional shaving effects.
Shaving for women wasn't popular until the early
part of the century, when the safety razor was invented by the Gillette company,
which advertised supposed sanitary benefits to women by shaving their underarms.
Leg shaving for women became popular with the advent of sheer nylon stockings
during World War II.
Body shaving is more difficult than facial
shaving because the skin is more tender in certain areas of the body, such as
the bikini area or the legs. Generally, shaving is done against the direction of
hair growth. For sensitive areas, shaving in the direction of hair growth often
works better and gives fewer skin cuts, but can be slower. It also helps to
lather up and soak the body areas for a while prior to shaving.
Stop shaving body areas that become red or get
bumps after shaving until the skin heals and the redness vanishes. You risk
infection if you shave while your skin is still healing. Some people feel that
gel shaving creams work better on the body than foam creams.
Men, particularly, competitive body builders,
often pretrim body hair with an electric mustache trimmer. The resultant short
stubble is soaked in water, covered with a shaving gel, and shaved with a
“ladies” body razor such as "Lady Sensor" or the Schick equivalent.
The cost of shaving is about $4.50 for Schick
Silk Effects Refillable Razor for Women or the Gillette SensorExcel, and about
$4 to $5 for a package of four replacement blades, which are enough to shave
your underarms and legs about 20 times. Shaving cream runs at about $2.35 for 10
oz. of Skintimate Shave Cream for women, which should last about two months.
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Despite changes in the past
20 years in attitudes toward many other types of body changes, attitudes
toward body hair remain rigid. A recent study asked college students to view
videotapes of a woman emerging from a swimming pool and drying herself. In
one videotape, the woman had more body hair. In the other, she had shaved.
Both male and female students considered the woman with more body hair as
less intelligent, less sociable, and less happy than the same woman as she
appeared after shaving. The students also thought of the unshaven woman as
more aggressive and strong, and, in essence, they saw her as less feminine.
Men commonly want hair
removed from between the eyebrows, around the outside of the ears, and the
shoulders, and also, they sometimes want smooth bodies to cut down on wind
resistance during sports. Male cyclists and swimmers want hair removed to
increase their competitive speed. Women commonly want to remove facial hair
on the lip, chin, eyebrows, neck, bikini line, abdomen, breasts, forearms,
and underarms. Many muscle builders (a rapidly growing sport) favor
hairlessness for competitions and, therefore, carefully shave, depilate, and
wax their bodies to seek the perfect body image. In Northern California, a
substantial group of transsexuals are highly interested in obtaining degrees
of hairlessness in various body areas.
Medications such as steroid
hormones and birth control pills, or the surgical removal of sex glands, may
stimulate abnormal hair growth.
The cost of hair removal
can range from $20 to 50 for do-it-yourself waxing kits to several thousand
dollars for laser treatments. "Permanent" hair removal takes time and often
requires repeated treatments. This is because hairs that are visible are in
their growing phase. However, at any given time, about 11% of your hair is in
a resting phase and the follicles are not growing hair, while another 4% are
in the hair shedding phase, during when hair falls out. "Permanent" hair
removal works only on hair in the growing phase and works best on follicles
in the early part of the growing phase. So, any permanent hair removal
treatment might only affect 30% to 40% of the follicles. Later treatments
will be needed to treat the remaining follicles as they progress into the
early phase of the hair growing cycle.
Types of Hair Removal
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Temporary
Tweezing, Shaving, Mechanical Epilators, Chemical Depilatories
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Less Hair Eventually
Waxing (tends to reduce hair growth with time)
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Permanent Electrolysis (Hair Electrology), Laser Hair
Removal
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Skin must be rapidly
healed after hair removal!
All hair removal methods
(tweezing, shaving, waxing, electrolysis, lasers, pharmaceutical creams
etc.) cause a certain amount of skin damage. They can irritate the skin as
well as allow for the penetration of viruses and bacteria into the skin. For
example, warts seem to start from injured or broken skin. Common warts
usually grow where skin has been irritated or shaved, such as where
fingernails are bitten or hangnails pulled. In adults, warts tend to grow
where hair removal procedures have damaged the skin. This is the beard area
on men and the legs on women.
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