Depilation with sugar paste at home

Among the many ways to remove unwanted hair on the body,depilation with sugar paste. This method is considered one of the oldest, because he was actively used by the beauties of Ancient Egypt. Today, shugaring can be done not only by professionals in the beauty salon, but also independently. Sugar depilation at home does not require serious material costs and some special skills. Therefore, many modern girls resort to this method.

What is required?

• Pasta, which can be bought ready-made or made by yourself.
• Strips of fabric or paper. They can also be bought or cut by yourself. Strips help to easily remove the paste from the surface of the skin, but some do without them.
  
  
  
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• Putty spatula( can be replaced with wooden ice cream sticks).
• Degreaser and disinfectant for skin pre-treatment.
• Anti-inflammatory for post-procedure treatment.

Cooking paste

Professionally made pasta today can easily be bought at a cosmetic store. But if you want, you can cook it yourself. All products are easy to purchase at the nearest grocery store, so you will not have any problems with pasta preparation.

Ingredients list:

• 500 g of sugar( for shugaring it is better to use white, not brown, it's easier to determine paste readiness by its color);
• 60 ml of lemon / lime juice or 1 teaspoon( without a slide) of citric acid;
• 60 ml of clean water.

In the time of the Egyptian queen for sludge use honey and juice of medicinal plants. You can also add 2-3 tablespoons of honey to the mixture if you are preparing a paste for depilation in the sensitive area. It has an emollient, anti-inflammatory and wound-healing effect. But only on the condition that you do not have any allergies to this product.

Preparation process

Take a cup or a pot with a thick bottom, in which you are going to cook the paste. Mix all ingredients in this container and put on medium heat. That the mixture is not burned, you can use the dissector. During cooking, the mixture must be stirred constantly. Try not to leave the plate, as the pasta is brewed very quickly.

After boiling reduce the heat to the minimum mark and continue to cook, stirring constantly, for about 5 minutes. After that, remove the pan from the plate and let the foam settle. Determine the availability of the composition can be by its color. The "right" pasta has a light honey hue.

If your sugar paste for depilation turned out to be too pale, it must again be put on a slow fire and brought to readiness. Also check whether the paste is ready, you can use a special thermometer for caramel. At 110-120 degrees, the syrup can be removed from the fire.

Before making depilation with sugar, the paste should be cooled to 37-38 degrees. It should not be too hot, otherwise you risk earning burns. When the paste has cooled down to the required temperature, take a small amount of the composition in the hand and try to stretch it. The paste should be soft enough, plastic and have a light caramel flavor.

• If the paste strongly adheres to the hands and does not roll into the ball, it is not cooked.
  To make the sugar ready for depilation, cook it a little more.
• If the mixture looks more like hard caramel, then you digested it. Try to "revive" it, adding a couple of tablespoons of water and boiling for a few minutes over low heat. If these actions have not saved the paste, it will only be discarded.

You can also prepare the product in a microwave oven. This method is much easier and faster. But if you are making pasta for the first time, it is better to choose a traditional recipe when you can observe the changes in color and consistency of sugar.

If you decide to make a syrup in a microwave oven, mix all the ingredients and put on the preheating. After every 25-30 seconds, take out the container and mix its contents. In this case, the readiness is determined exactly as in the cooking process on the plate.

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Purchase paste and its features

If you do not have the time or desire to prepare a paste, you can buy it. It is necessary to take into account one nuance: finished products have a different consistency and can be used for different parts of the body.

• The most liquid paste is used to eliminate vegetation on large and even areas, such as legs and hands.
• Medium soft paste is considered universal. With her help, you can get rid of hair absolutely on any part of the body.
• Thick paste can also be used for hands, feet, underarms, intimate area and area above the upper lip. It is easily applied and removed without the use of additional devices( spatula and strips).
• High-density paste is suitable for processing particularly sensitive areas. This is a zone of deep bikini, a place under the nose, axillary cavities.

Carrying out the procedure

You may have difficulty removing too long hairs, so their length should not exceed 5-6 mm. If necessary, they can be trimmed with a trimmer.

3-4 days before the procedure, it is recommended to do exfoliation. This will improve the result and avoid the problem of ingrown hair.

The paste is applied with clean hands to dry skin. Therefore, before the procedure, you should wash your hands with soap and also treat the skin with a degreasing and disinfectant. In order not to damage the skin, you can apply talc to the surface to be treated.

It is recommended to begin the procedure with the most sensitive parts of the body. For example, if you want to remove hair on your hands and in the bikini area, start with the bikini area.

1. After preparing the skin, you can go directly to the procedure. Take a piece of composition and mash it in your hands to make it warm and soft. If you get pasta from the refrigerator, it can be heated in a microwave for 30-40 seconds at minimum power.
2. Apply a thin layer on a small area of ​​the skin against hair growth, and glue the strip on top. Having waited 10-20 seconds, sharply remove a strip together with paste now already on a line of growth of hair. Skin with a free hand to reduce pain.
3. Repeat these steps on the remaining sections. To minimize discomfort and irritation after depilation, treat the skin with a soothing and anti-inflammatory lotion.

It is recommended to store it in a refrigerator or any other dark and cool place. For storage, a plastic container, a glass or ceramic jar with a tight lid, is suitable. Before re-use it only needs to be heated in a water bath or in a microwave oven.

Skin care after the procedure

How you care for the skin, in many respects will depend on her condition. Immediately after the shugaring, a slight itch and slight irritation may appear, which can be removed by soothing lotion for sensitive skin or an antiseptic cream.

If you need to wash off the sugar residues from the skin, do it with warm running water without using soap, flavored shower gels and other products.

Some use talc or baby powder. But it is not recommended to do this: such drugs clog pores, which can lead to inflammatory processes and ingrowth of hairs. After the procedure, it is better to give the skin "breathe" without clothes. If this is not possible, give preference to soft linen made from natural materials.

• The first days the skin is very vulnerable, therefore it needs special protection. During the day after the shugaring, do not take a hot bath, as well as apply deodorants, perfumes and other products with odors and fruit acids.
  Also for a couple of days you will have to give up swimming in the sea water, active sports, swimming pool, sauna and sauna.
• Try to refrain from sunbathing in the sun and in the solarium. Otherwise, it can provoke the appearance of pigmentation.
• Despite the fact that after a properly performed procedure the risk of ingrown hairs is minimal, it is necessary to take preventive measures. Approximately 3-5 days after hair removal, skin peeling can be done. In the future, the scrub can be used about 1-2 times a week. It can be both purchased and cooked at home. If the problem of ingrown hairs has arisen, treat the surface with a remedy with panthenol( Bepanten, D-Panthenol).

With the help of sugar depilation hairs are removed from the root. Therefore, smooth skin will delight you for up to 3 weeks. A huge plus of shugaring is that after removal new hairs grow less dark and thick.

The frequency of the procedures depends on the intensity of hair growth. On average, sugar depilation should be repeated once a month. If you want the skin to remain smooth for as long as possible, use regular lotion or lotion to slow the growth of hair.

Advantages of sugar depilation

Today, there are a huge number of ways to remove hair, from normal shaving and ending with laser hair removal. Especially many people are worried that it's better - depilation with wax or sugar. Let's consider the main advantages of shugaring.

1. Availability. You can easily cook sugar paste at home. For this, some expensive and rare products are not needed.
2. Significant savings. If you know how to cook sugar for depilation, and can prepare the paste yourself, the costs will be minimal, especially compared to the salon procedure and other methods of hair removal.
3. Minimal risk of allergies and other complications. It is difficult to find a person with an allergy to normal sugar. Therefore, you can not be afraid of the appearance of edema, severe rash and other symptoms of allergy.
   It should be noted that the self-prepared composition does not contain flavorings, colorants and other harmful components for the body.
4. Hair is removed with a syrup corresponding to body temperature. And this minimizes the risk of burns, in contrast to depilation with hot wax. Therefore, if you are wondering which depilation is better - sugar or wax, from a safety standpoint, it is worth choosing the first option.
5. A small consumption of paste and the possibility of reusable use. With a single paste ball, you can process a large enough area of ​​the body. And if after the procedure you have sugar paste left, just use it next time. Means of 1 kg of sugar is enough for about 3-4 months of use.
6. Easy paste removal. After the procedure, the remains of sugar can be easily washed off the skin with warm water without the use of any additional means. And after wax depilation remove wax from the skin is much more difficult.
7. No ingrown hairs. If you did everything correctly, the risk of ingrown hairs after the procedure is minimal. This is due to the fact that the strip is removed not against hair growth, but along.
8. Sugar depilation is less painful than wax. Therefore, it can be done even in the most sensitive areas.

Disadvantages of the

procedure Unfortunately, even such a safe and simple procedure has its drawbacks. The main thing is the difficulty of preparing sugar paste. Some women who prepare syrup for the first time, can not achieve the desired consistency: they either digest, or, conversely, do not complete the mixture.

Although the pain with sugar depilation is much less than with the wax. Absolutely painless procedure can not be called. In many respects it depends on the individual characteristics of the organism. If you have a low pain threshold, then most likely, you depilation with sugar paste, especially in sensitive areas, will seem rather uncomfortable. But after several procedures, many get used to this method of hair removal, and the procedure they no longer seem so terrible.

Contraindications

Despite the safety of depilation with sugar paste, it is not allowed by everyone. There are a number of contraindications that must be taken into account, otherwise you can aggravate already existing problems:

• wounds, cuts, abrasions and other skin lesions;
• burns, including sunburn;
• neoplasms of various origin, as well as warts, moles in the depilation area;
• skin diseases: herpes, psoriasis, eczema;
• thrombosis, as well as varicose veins 3 and 4 degrees;
• diabetes mellitus and endocrine diseases;
• epilepsy.

Sugar depilation is a simple, but at the same time very effective method of hair removal. Regular housekeeping is possible without significant financial and time costs. A proper skin care after depilation will allow you to keep its smoothness and beauty as long as possible.

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