Hair Removal For A Man

Hair Removal For A Man

Reduce facial beard, chest, back, arm and leg hair with safe and effective technologies for hair removal for men. Laser, electrolysis, creams and more to do the job for you.

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Laser Hair Removal For A Man - Best Choice

The advantage of laser hair removal treatments is that they're relatively quick, painless and you'll get close-to-permanent hair removal results.

How does laser hair removal for a man work... and what will you experience? Except for some post-treatment redness and surface puffiness, your treatment's are utterly benign.

Men like the space age technology side of laser hair removal since low energy light beams are discretely focused on hair follicles, which are "zapped" by the laser. Individual hair follicles heat-up and then become "dis-abled", unable to again produce hair growth... which is exactly what you want to control.

* Next Best Bet - Electrolysis. Men looking for hair removal from their chest, arms or legs, back and neck or to reduce facial beard growth can also consider electrolysis. Here's how it works. A sterilized needle (epilator) is directed towards hair follicles. Your skin is never broken, no bleeding occurs, yet your hair follicles get dis-abled. Result? Either permanent or limited hair re-growth. You'll look all the better for it.

* Is Any Hair "Off Limits"? No. Most of the hair removal treatments for men can be used on virtually any body surface area. Since hormonal and hair-producing chemistry for men operates on a different order to women, your masses of hair need more aggressive treatment plans. Where a woman may need 10 minutes of laser hair treatment in order to removal lip hair, a man might need a full hour or more... merely to reduce beard hair.

You can target excess hair growth areas such as arms and legs, neck shoulders and back, chest, facial hair, even ear hair follicles. FDA regulated and proven hair removal technologies for men are widely availabel to you.

* Figuring Costs. If you're loking for a more permanent solution, then laser hair removal for a man might be your best bet. Individual sessions are priced differently around the country, however you can budget from $250 to $500 per session.

How many sessions will you need? A technician can rapidly generate an estimate, based on observation and measurement, since total surface area requiring treatment is the multiplier used to determine costs.

Ultimately, you may need multiple sessions. Ask you hair removal clinic whether you can make an initial payment... to get started... and then go onto an instalment payment plan for the balance of your program.

* Some Historical Perspective On Hair Removal For Men. Historically, dating back to the Egyptians with hair removal applications like warm wax to the legs, women were more concerned about the removal of excessive body and face hair than men. Times have changed.

Hair removal for a man used to be the exclusive province of male strippers (for appearance), swimmers (for speed) and cyclists (for appearance and speed). Not any more.

Hair removal for a man is also an important option for men tattooing their bodies. Once the tattoo is applied, the pigment from the tattoo ink makes laser hair removal less practical because the pigment absorbs the laser wavelengths, preventing an acceptable level of hair removal. The better procedure is to remove unwanted hair before the tattoo applications are applied.

Men have been shaving their beards for centuries. Some Roman men used a pitch-and-resin mixture to remain clean-shaven.

Most beards take approximately 200 hours to remove with electrolysis (thicker beards can take up to 300 hours). Slow thermolysis is slightly faster than electrolysis (10-20 seconds/hair vs. 20-30 seconds/per hair. Flash thermolysis is both faster than the other methods and more cost effective.

The FDA's Office of Cosmetics and Color regulates chemical depilatories, shaving creams, waxes and gels because it regards those products as cosmetics being used to change the appearance of a person's body. The FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health regulates electrolysis equipment and laser equipment.

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