Waxing Services By Erothots, Full Body And Brazilian

These are two genuinely different products and using the wrong one on the wrong area is the reason waxing hurts more in some places than others.

Hard wax is applied thick and left to set. As it cools it shrinks and grips around each hair rather than sticking to the skin underneath, then it is lifted off in one piece with no strip. Because it is not bonded to your skin, it takes far less of the surface with it, which is why it is the only thing we use on intimate areas, underarms and anywhere the skin is thin.

Soft wax is spread in a thin layer and removed with a muslin strip. It grips the skin as well as the hair, which makes it faster over large flat areas like legs, arms and backs, and considerably more irritating if the same patch is worked twice.

A Spatula Goes In Once, Then In The Bin

Double dipping is when a spatula that has already touched your skin is dipped back into the shared wax pot for more. It is quicker, it wastes less wax, and it is completely routine in a great many salons.

It also means the pot now contains whatever was on your skin, kept warm, ready for the next person. The wax is not hot enough to sterilize anything, whatever anybody tells you. This is the single most important question to ask any waxing salon and almost nobody asks it.

• One spatula, one dip, then binned. Every time. On a full body appointment that is a great many spatulas, and that is simply the cost of doing it properly.
• Fresh couch roll for every client. Changed in front of you, along with a clean towel and fresh disposable underwear if you want it.
• Gloves worn throughout. Changed between areas on the same client, not just between clients.
• Wax heated to a working temperature, not a hot one. Tested on the inside of the wrist before it goes anywhere near you, every single pot, every single time.
• Nothing waxed over broken skin. Cuts, spots that have been picked, sunburn or any inflammation and we work around it or stop.
• Pots cleaned and wax replaced on a schedule. Not topped up indefinitely, which is what happens when a pot has never been emptied.

The most common complaint after waxing, and the most preventable. An ingrown happens when a new hair cannot break through the surface, either because dead skin has closed over the follicle or because the hair curls back on itself. Friction from tight clothing makes both considerably more likely.

Almost everything that prevents them is free, and almost everything that makes them worse feels like the sensible thing to do at the time.

• Start exfoliating on day three, not before. The skin needs seventy two hours to settle first. After that, gently, two or three times a week, every week between appointments.
• Use a chemical exfoliant, not a scrub. A salicylic or glycolic product dissolves the dead skin blocking the follicle. Scrubbing irritates the surface and can push a hair further under.
• Moisturize daily. Dry skin is thicker and harder for a new hair to push through. This is the least exciting item on the list and it does more than most of the others.
• Loose clothing for forty eight hours. Especially after intimate waxing. Tight seams and friction on freshly waxed skin is the reliable route to bumps three days later.
• Never dig one out. Not with tweezers, not with a needle. That is how a minor ingrown becomes an infected one and how scarring starts. If one is inflamed and painful, see a doctor.
• Tell us where you get them. If you consistently get ingrowns in one area, we can change how we work it and recommend something specific rather than giving you the general advice.