11 Mar Stop Letting Shaving Nicks and Wax Rash Bug You
Both men and women spend over one full month of their lives shaving, on average, and many of those session ends with nicks, blood, and pain. Laser hair reduction at Parson Skin Center drastically reduces growth of unwanted hair, allowing many clients to stop shaving and waxing altogether. Keep in mind that only electrolysis permanently stops hair growth, but that process takes years (and is quite expensive and painful). For the vast majority of clients, laser hair reduction is the best tool to ditch the razor and say hello to smooth skin.
There are many lasers touted as laser hair reducers, but the Candela GentleMax Pro is considered the best and gold standard today. If you’ve tried laser hair reduction in years past and didn’t get the results you wanted or thought it was too uncomfortable, it’s time to discover the benefits of GentleMax Pro. It’s a hybrid of two lasers, so you get two wavelengths that bring the marriage of heat and light together for optimal benefits. With GentleMax Pro, you can enjoy the most powerful and quickest benefits of a 755 nm Alexandrite laser along with the 1064 nm Nd:YAG laser. In other words, your laser hair reduction is versatile and safe, capable of ending your days of shaving with what looks like a single light beam.
Want More From Your Laser Hair Reduction?
You’ll often see Candela GentleMax Pro suggested for laser hair reduction, but it’s also used for a myriad of other skin concerns—and you can combine your laser hair treatment with other skin treatments, too! Minimize lines, wrinkles, unwanted veins on both the leg and face, age spots and UV-damaged skin, and even enjoy skin tightening. No matter what you use this laser for, you can count on it being comfortable thanks to the cooling technology immediately before and after every pulse. Skin is kept cool with a blast of cryogen that minimizes discomfort. However, for those with very sensitive skin (or for those sensitive areas), a topical numbing cream can still be applied as well.
When the laser is targeted at the treatment site, all of the hair follicles in that area are addressed. These light beams are strong enough to damage the follicles, yet keep the skin intact. It might be described as a light pinching sensation, and typical treatments last anywhere from a few minutes to up to 45 – 60 minutes depending on how many sites are being treated and the size. Some of the most common treatment areas are the upper lip, underarms, back, legs, and arms. Many men opt for this treatment on their face and neck to bid adieu to razor bumps.
Are there Any Benefits to Body Hair?
Is there any reason to keep body hair? Our ancestors were much hairier, but thanks to the advent of, well, clothes, it might seem pointless to hold onto body hair these days. However, technically the fine body hair most of us has does serve a purpose—but probably not one that you really need. A recent study has shown that those fine hairs help us to detect parasites, specifically bed bugs. The authors further suggest that women used to prefer hairier guys because, perhaps, they were more likely to be bug-free.
Even though the fine hairs we sport today are mostly leftover from our hairier past, they can still help us feel tiny bugs (but there are other ways to go about this). The study considered 29 college students, each of whom agreed to shave a patch of hair from their arm. Next, bedbugs were placed on both arms and scientists waited to see how long it took the parasites to find a good spot to feed (spoiler: the bedbugs were removed before they actually started to dine). The researchers found that body hair “significantly” improved how well people detected bedbugs. As a bonus, the hair also served as a barrier, discouraging the bedbugs from digging in. Overall, men were better detectors—but they also tend to have hairier arms than women due to testosterone. However, even if you have very hairy arms, don’t forego laser hair reduction just to ward off bugs. It turns out that parasites are fantastic at honing in on naturally hair-free areas, such as the ankles (so, overall, women don’t get bitten more than men).
Are you ready to vanquish unwanted body hair once and for all? It doesn’t need to bug you anymore with GentleMax Pro. Schedule your consultation at Parson Skin Center today by calling the office, or for the quickest response simply complete the online contact form.