Basic knowledge about Hair removal.Hair removal is also called depilation. It refers to remove the unwanted hair in different body areas.

There are two types of hair on the human body: Vellus hair and terminal hair. Vellus hair is the thin and short hair you can hardly see. Terminal hair means the coarse and thick hair which grow long and generally it grow on the leg, bikini, underarm etc. Hair grows all over the body. Of course men usually have much thicker and coarser hair then women. For both women and men, they have hair grown on the head, underarm, public area, underarm. Men usually have much more and thicker hair on the back, chest, face etc.

People perform hair removal for several reasons. Religious, medicine and sexual are the most common reasons. For some religious belief, people need to remove the unwanted hair. For example, in Middle East countries, women would remove their body hair in their daily life. Unnecessary body hair would make them embarrassed in the public.

Women want to be sexy so that choose to remove the bikini area hair. Some men also would like to remove their genital hair.You can check other information about bikini waxing supplies.

In different regions and times, people use different hair removal methods. For instance, in recent years people tends to receive laser, IPL treatment for long lasting removal. Among all methods, shaving is still the most common method. There are a large number of women shave their unwanted leg, underarm even bikini hair regularly.

Shorter dresses are very popular in summer; girls always would like to show their nice leg in the public. Smooth leg is a must for those girls wearing short dress. Also in the summer, girls want to enjoy their beach wearing swimsuits. Excess bikini hair appears out of swimsuit would make you so embarrassed. Excess hair check and removal is a must for those girls.

In most western countries, a majority of men shave their fast growing hair every day so they have clean and smooth look. Only a minority of men grow beard. However, men’s coarse hair has to be shaved with blade or razor.

For some special filed, hair removal is necessary. Swimmers or athletes need to have smooth body. Swimmers usually remove their leg hair so that they can feel more about water to improve their result.

As to the hair removal methods, some of them are just for short term result and you should never cheated by the exaggerated ads. Those methods include: shaving, plucking, depilatory cream, tweezing, threading, sugaring, waxing.

Permanent hair removal method: electrolysis

Permanent hair removal reduction: laser, Intense Pulsed light.