Hair removal, also known as epilation or depilation, is the removal of body hair, and describes the methods used to achieve that result.
Hair typically grows all over the human body during and after puberty. Men tend to have more body hair than women. Both men and women have hair on the head, eyebrows, eyelashes, armpits, pubic region and legs; and men also have hair on their face, abdomen, back and chest. Hair does not generally grow on the palms of the hands, the lips, certain areas of the genital structure, or the soles of the feet.
Forms of hair removal are practiced for a number of reasons, including cultural, sexual, medical and religious. Forms of hair removal have been practiced in almost all human cultures. The methods used to remove hair have varied in different times and regions, but shaving is the most common method.
Different methods used to remove hair from the body:
Hair typically grows all over the human body during and after puberty. Men tend to have more body hair than women. Both men and women have hair on the head, eyebrows, eyelashes, armpits, pubic region and legs; and men also have hair on their face, abdomen, back and chest. Hair does not generally grow on the palms of the hands, the lips, certain areas of the genital structure, or the soles of the feet.
Forms of hair removal are practiced for a number of reasons, including cultural, sexual, medical and religious. Forms of hair removal have been practiced in almost all human cultures. The methods used to remove hair have varied in different times and regions, but shaving is the most common method.
Different methods used to remove hair from the body:
- Shaving or trimming (manually or with electric shavers)
- Depilatories (creams or shaving powders which chemically dissolve hair)
- Friction (rough surfaces used to buff away hair)
- Tweezing (hairs are tweezed, or pulled out, with tweezers or with fingers)
- Waxing (a hot or cold layer is applied and then removed with porous strips)
- Sugaring (similar to waxing, but with a sticky paste)
- Threading (also called fatlah or khite in Arabic, or band in Persian) in which a twisted thread catches hairs as it is rolled across the skin
- Use of Turmeric along with other ingredients like besan powder and milk
- Epilators (mechanical devices that rapidly grasp hairs and pull them out)
- Prescription oral medications
- Laser Hair Removal (lasers and laser diodes)
- Intense pulsed light (high-energy lamps)
- Diode epilation (high energy LEDs but not laser diodes)
There are several disadvantages to many of these hair removal methods. Most are not permanent, can cause medical problems and permanent damage, or have very high costs. Some of these methods are still in the testing phase and have not been clinically proven.
Indiana University researchers reportedly found in a recent study that pubic hair removal can cause heart failure, strokes, and birth defects. Pubic hair removal can cause infection of the heart valves which can lead to heart failure and strokes in some women. Pubic hair removal naturally irritates and inflames the hair follicles left behind leaving microscopic open wounds. When that irritation is combined with the warm moist environment of the genitals, it becomes a perfect breeding ground for Staphylococci bacteria that causes infection. When the bacteria enter the bloodstream and spread to other organs, a number of serious infections can occur. When Staph bacteria are present in the blood, a condition known as Staphylococcal sepsis (widespread infection of the bloodstream) occurs. When untreated Staph sepsis can also cause a womans uterus to become too weak to hold a fetus, resulting in a mortality death of the fetus, the mother, or both.
One issue that can be considered an advantage or a disadvantage depending upon an individuals viewpoint, is that removing hair has the effect of removing information about the individuals hair growth patterns due to genetic predisposition, illness, androgen levels (such as from pubertal hormonal imbalances or drug side effects), and/or gender status.
Indiana University researchers reportedly found in a recent study that pubic hair removal can cause heart failure, strokes, and birth defects. Pubic hair removal can cause infection of the heart valves which can lead to heart failure and strokes in some women. Pubic hair removal naturally irritates and inflames the hair follicles left behind leaving microscopic open wounds. When that irritation is combined with the warm moist environment of the genitals, it becomes a perfect breeding ground for Staphylococci bacteria that causes infection. When the bacteria enter the bloodstream and spread to other organs, a number of serious infections can occur. When Staph bacteria are present in the blood, a condition known as Staphylococcal sepsis (widespread infection of the bloodstream) occurs. When untreated Staph sepsis can also cause a womans uterus to become too weak to hold a fetus, resulting in a mortality death of the fetus, the mother, or both.
One issue that can be considered an advantage or a disadvantage depending upon an individuals viewpoint, is that removing hair has the effect of removing information about the individuals hair growth patterns due to genetic predisposition, illness, androgen levels (such as from pubertal hormonal imbalances or drug side effects), and/or gender status.
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