Depilation Cremes and Lotions

With the hustle and bustle of our everyday lives, more and more of us are looking for a quick way to remove that unsightly hair from our legs, face and body.

While shaving is fairly quick, we sometime nick or don’t get as close a shave as we would hope.

That is where depilation cremes and lotion come in. Depilatories like Nair or Veet (chemical solutions) disolve the hair just below the skin level leaving us with longer lasting smooth legs or body. While extending the time between hair removal.

Products like Nair and Veet are good, but they also have there draw backs:

• They smell awful.
• Can cause skin irritation and-or chemical burns.
• Not good for sensitive skin areas, face, pubic or underarms.
• Can be messy.

Like shaving, depilatories are a short term method. Since the hair is not removed from the root, it grows back fairly quick and only last a few days.

Use caution when applying such depilatories. Make sure you apply it to only the areas you want hair to removed. Don’t forget you have some on your hands and reach up to pull the hair on your head back away from your face if wear long hair!

You might not be happy with the results!

Depilation means hair removal.

The most common methods are:

• Shaving.
• Chemical hair removers.

The term Depilation is derived from the latin word “pilus” meaning, “hair.
supplementing the latin work by adding “de” in front of it means, “be rid of or remove”.
In english, adding “ation” to the end of a word, turn the term into an action word.

Depilation is a short term method of hair removal, only lastin for a few days, unlike waxing or other methods that remove the hair from the root.

Beauty is more than just a great pair of sexy legs...but it does help!

Depilation is a personal preference and varies between the sexes.

• Legs - Became popular when nylons were hard to come by during world war 2.
• Arms- To lessen the hairy male looking arm effect.
• Underarms - Providing a smooth look and to reduce underarm odor.
• Shoulders and back - To soften the look when wearing a dress or top that exposes these areas.
• Torso - For that bare look when wearing a bikini or short top.
• Pubic region - Again, who wants unsightly hair poking out from around the bikini line. Although, removal of pubic hair also has some sexual preferences too. Hair in the pubic are is often shaped or reduced, if not completely removed.
  

  Shaving terrors include nicks, cuts and razor burns.

  
  

Usual Male Habits:

• Beard - some males only worry about a nice clean shavin face.
• Arms - Not usually an area a male worries about.
• Underarms - Again, not usually worried about.
• Shoulders, Back and Torso - some males remove hair from those areas for various reason.
• Pubic region - For swim trunks issues and for sexual preferences theirs or their partners.

For the short term, depilation is a cheap method of removing hair temporarily.

Shaving is quick and easy for the legs, face and easy to access areas of the body. Extra care must be take when shaving those private areas. With the improvement in shaving technologies today both disposable razors and electric razors, provide a fairly quick and smooth shave. Use of such devices require some evaluation to find out what works best for your skin type.

Depilatory creams an lotion are an easier way to remove hair from those harder to reach and large areas. These areas include, the back, torso and buttocks. They are not a good alternative for the more sensitive areas like, underarms, face and pubic areas.

Shaving and Depilatory solutions should never be used on acne or rash affected areas. Doing so will just aggrevate the affected areas.