Hair removal with folk remedies
Many people believe that hair removal is a procedure that has become vital only for modern women, and that earlier they simply did not pay attention to excess hair, covering it with clothes. However, this is not at all the case. Only the term itself is new, and the procedure for removing excess hair has existed, apparently, since the beauty of the female body began to be appreciated, which means that hair removal with folk remedies is comparable in age to civilization.
Hair removal with folk remedies is quite diverse. For this purpose, different peoples used various methods of both chemical and mechanical hair removal. As a chemical, we used decoctions of various plants, or compound pastes, which included plants containing aggressive chemicals that could destroy the hair follicle. Each region had its own recipes. For example, in our area for hair removal, they used green walnut peel or cedar shells, depending on whether the beauties lived in the south or in cooler regions. Interesting fact: stinging nettle - a plant traditionally used to strengthen hair, it turns out, has been successfully used as a folk remedy for hair removal. For this purpose, not the leaves of the nettle are used, but its seeds,crushed and mixed with sunflower oil, and sometimes freshly picked, ground into a paste.
Later, in order to remove hair with folk remedies, they began to use available chemicals with caustic properties, for example, potassium permanganate, popularly known as potassium permanganate, or crystalline iodine. Our contemporaries who want to follow such techniques should be warned right away - the harm from this can be much more than the benefit. Natural doesn't necessarily mean healthy. The dosage of caustic compounds in this case is determined by eye, and the effect of epilation is achieved literally by burning out the hair follicle, while it must be understood that there is no selective effect on the follicle, and not only the bulb is exposed to a chemical burn, but the entire skin on the treated surface … Nowadays, when there are many alternatives to such barbaric methods,do not risk your health out of a desire to experiment.
Another thing is mechanical hair removal with folk remedies. Surprisingly, the mega-popular shugaring now refers precisely to such means. With the help of thick sugar syrup, women in the Middle East have long been getting rid of excess hair, and in North Africa, silk thread was used for this purpose. The essence of the procedure in this case is the same - pulling out hairs. And although these methods do not promise to remove hair forever, they are quite effective and completely safe, perhaps this is what allowed them to persist to this day.
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