Hair Removal Treatment That Works

Permanently removing hair is something that many have tried and few have accomplished. Whether it’s a male hoping to eliminate growth on his body or a female on her face, various methods are available but few are successful. Of those that are, one stands alone as the easiest and most effective.

Hair removal treatment can be a mixed bag of methods and results. Between at-home kits that may include shaving, waxing or tweezing and medical applications that can be painful and expensive, it is hard to find an easy, effective and available method.

For all of the products and treatments out there that claim to work easily, there is really only one that has been consistently hailed as being effective and relatively easy and painless: Laser removal. Since becoming available to the general public in the mid 1990s, it is one of the most popular and sought-after approaches in the world.

Originally performed on an experimental basis for some two decades before it went mainstream, laser treatments do not technically involve the use of lasers. Instead this type of treatment utilizes intense pulsed light. This is similar to some lasers and is powered by a flash lamp that emits intense levels of full-spectrum light.

These high-intensity flashes target the pigment of melanin that is present in hairs and their follicles, which absorb the intense light and effectively burn themselves out, leaving them unable to re-grow for an extended period of time. Because melanin is the catalyst and is a dark pigment that is most common in brown and black hairs, these colors are most easily treated on the human body using this method.

Laser hair removal treatment has become popular because a dermatologist can do it quickly; it is relatively pain-free and typically has few related side effects. Depending on the size of the area being treated, visits can last as little as an hour or under and are often performed as part of an extended schedule of visits.

Most patients require between three and eight treatments as well as additional touch-up visits as necessary. The length and number of visits as well as the level of discomfort that may be present is largely determined on a case-by-case basis although, all patients are required to space out their visits appropriately to allow the affected area sufficient time to heal.

Additionally, some individuals may not experience typical results with various types and models of lasers and others may find that their hairs do not respond to the treatments at all. It is important to pay attention to how your body reacts after trying this treatment out for the first time, to determine if this treatment is right for you.

Laser hair removal treatment is also one of the only treatments of its kind to be recognized by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a source of “permanent reduction.” In this case, “permanent” is defined as the long-term reduction of hairs growing in a treated region as the result of the procedure.

Because of this myriad of factors, when it comes to hair removal treatment there are few better options, if any, than the use of these so-called lasers.