Women around the world and at all times aspired to ideals. This applies to clothing, makeup and haircuts. Much attention is paid to the skin. It should be soft, smooth, without excess vegetation. The key to female attractiveness lies precisely in the absence of extra hairs. There are ladies who pay attention only to the skin of the face, legs and armpits. But many still prefer to fight hair in the bikini area and on their hands. Indeed, the hands are sometimes more visible to prying eyes than the legs, and therefore they should be given special attention. Today we will talk about how to properly depilate the skin of your hands yourself at home.
Hand depilation: sugaring
This is an easy and painless procedure. In salons, it is very popular, because only natural ingredients are included in the composition of the hair remover, and the result after applying this technology remains for a sufficiently long time. So, shugaring is depilation using sugar paste, which can be prepared at home. For manyFor millennia, women have used this method because it is affordable, cheap, and effective.
To prepare the pasta, you will need very few products: these are six teaspoons of sugar, two tablespoons of water and lemon juice. If you are only depilating your hands, these ingredients will be enough.
Procedure
Sugar must be mixed with water in a metal container and put on a slow fire. Those women who have ever made homemade lollipops know that in order to avoid burning sugar, the mixture must be constantly stirred. When the sugar turns into golden caramel, lemon juice is added, the container is removed from the heat. After thorough mixing, the paste must be allowed to cool so as not to burn the skin with hot caramel. While the caramel is cooling, take a bath to steam your skin. So the procedure will be less painful. The treated area can be lubricated with chlorhexidine.
Hand depilation is performed when the paste becomes a comfortable temperature, the skin should be perfectly dry. Put on rubber gloves, take a lump of the mixture from the container, fix it on the line of the beginning of hair growth, distribute it against growth to the treatment area. The paste should be in close contact with the surface of the skin. When everything is done, with a sharp movement, tear off the resulting strip in the direction opposite to hair growth. Repeat the process on the remaining untreated areas.
Hands after depilation should be washed with warm water and applied to them with a soothing cream. Proceduretakes no more than half an hour, and it practically does not cause discomfort. When thinking about whether to perform this procedure, make a decision based on your personal pain threshold.
Hand waxing
One of the favorite procedures for many girls. It can be produced using a ready-made wax mixture, which is sold in cosmetic stores and pharmacies, but it is still cheaper to prepare it yourself. You will need to heat 130-150 grams of ordinary white beeswax and 360 grams of carnauba, 5-7 drops of glycerin and three of any essential oil in a water bath. Or another recipe: 200 grams of rosin, 50 grams of paraffin and 100 grams of beeswax are heated to a liquid state. Important! In order for the procedure to be less painful, it is recommended to apply hot wax to the skin at a temperature of 40 degrees. To avoid burns, use a special roller that can be bought at the store. They are also convenient to apply the required thin layer.
A strip of cotton fabric is applied to the wax layer, firmly attached to the surface with light movements. Then it is necessary to remove the matter with a sharp movement against the direction of hair growth. Waxing hands does not take much time, it will take no more than half an hour with all the preparations. The result of this procedure will last an average of two weeks, depending on the thickness and growth rate of the hairline.
Resin and herbs
The advantages of this method include ease of preparation and painlessness. Suitablewomen with any pain threshold. Minus - the duration of the procedure, which for a full-fledged result must be applied several times (5-8 with an interval of three days). But still, after a full course, you can forget about hair for up to three months.
Depilation of hands with herbs and resin is an affordable method, all the necessary components are sold in pharmacies at affordable prices. You will need the resin of any of the trees, 10 milliliters of lemon juice and 40 grams of ivy juice. The ingredients are heated in the microwave to a pasty state, mixed. The paste is applied in a thin layer to the hands and other areas of the skin that need to be treated. After fifty minutes, rinse with warm water and apply moisturizer.
Nettle against excess vegetation
Depilation of arms and legs can be done by the most affordable means that literally grow under your feet. Nettle tincture is prepared in the summer season and used throughout the year. The effect of this cheap method is similar to expensive salon photoepilation. So, to prepare a mixture for one depilation, you will need 50 milliliters of nettle stalk juice, 100 milliliters of sunflower oil and 40 grams of nettle seeds. The seeds need to be crushed, placed in a small jar, poured with oil and juice, closed tightly with a lid and insisted in a dark place for two months. One bank - one depilation, because after opening the tincture is not stored for a long time.
How to use
After eight weeks, you can use the preparedtincture. It is applied to the dry treated area, but not the skin of the face and armpits. After half an hour, you need to take a warm shower. The course consists of twelve procedures performed at intervals of three days. After completing it for half a year, you will not think about such unnecessary and annoying vegetation!
Grandma's method: depilation with soda
The most affordable of all hair removal products is baking soda. It is sold in every grocery store and costs no more than twenty rubles. So, to prepare the mixture, you need to pour 20 grams of soda into one hundred grams of olive oil, mix well.
Before the procedure, it is recommended not to wash the treated areas for six hours. A gauze cloth is dipped into the finished mixture and applied to the skin. For a better effect, you can leave the cloth on overnight. The course of getting rid of hair on the arms with this method is six procedures with an interval of one day.
After washing off the mixture from the skin, it is necessary to apply a cream. You can not remove facial hair with soda, and use this technique more than twelve times in a row.
Homemade anti-hair cream
Many women use depilatory cream to remove hair. With your own hands, this tool can also be made. Firstly, it will not contain the chemical ingredients of factory creams that adversely affect the skin. Secondly, it is again a cheap method. To prepare the product you will needthe following ingredients: sugar, water, honey, half a lemon, cotton cloth, moisturizer and body scrub.
There are two easiest ways to prepare the mixture, the first is:
Boil the water, pour three tablespoons of boiling water into a glass container, mix in it a tablespoon of honey and sugar. Squeeze the juice from the lemon into a homogeneous mass. After that, mix again, cover with a cooked cloth and let cool. While the cream comes, we take a shower, use a scrub to cleanse the skin. The cooled mixture is applied to the skin and washed off after twenty minutes. After the procedure, moisturize the hands with cream
Second method:
In half a glass of boiling water, mix four tablespoons of honey. Let the mixture cool down, but for now we take a shower with a scrub. Before applying the honey cream, squeeze the juice of half a lemon into it. Hand depilation is performed according to the above scheme
This technique is suitable for hair removal on the face, and in the bikini area, and in the armpits. For tougher vegetation, lemon juice is replaced with citric acid.
Tips for skin care after depilation
Depilation of hands will make the skin well-groomed and beautiful, but it can also cause irritation. Many women use very hot water to remove wax from treated areas. This is not worth doing, as you can dry out the epidermis, get red spots due to irritation. Use a special lotion to remove wax residue. If it is not there, then any vegetable oil or fatty cream that is applied to the skin and removed with a softcloth.
To avoid irritation on the skin after depilation, use Panthenol cream or spray. It relieves itching, resists redness. If this is not available, then take any remedy that contains calendula and chamomile extract, aloe. If this is not the case, then mix a regular skin cream with a couple of drops of aloe juice or tea tree oil.
Any of the above remedies will help to avoid irritation and dryness of the skin, quickly remove red dots from hairs after depilation.
What do women say?
Hand depilation, reviews of which are very extensive, is very popular at home. Women advise each other a variety of methods for dealing with hairs, and we have selected the most popular recipes for this article. Depilation of hair with hands with them will become much more pleasant and cheaper, from the many tips on dealing with vegetation, each representative of the fair sex will be able to choose the perfect one for herself. The special charm of the above recipes is natural and affordable ingredients that will not harm delicate female skin, unlike chemicals.
