Sugar epilation, it's shugaring (from English sugar - sugar), is actively used in our time by women of the East. It also used the ancient Egyptians. Shugaring is one of the most reliable and effective types of hair removal. To make sugar at home, you need the following ingredients: lemon juice, sugar, water. Agree, this is in every home.
Advantages of slogging.
1. Absence of contraindications. If only there is no individual intolerance to the components or skin diseases. Sugar paste removes hair of any type.
2. The procedure of shugaring is practically painless and can be applied on any skin integuments of your body - both in the bikini area and on the face. Since natural components are used, such epilation is hypoallergenic.
3. Shugaring is not only an epilation, but also a good peeling. Together with excess hair, the dead skin layers are also removed. Cost of these two procedures in beauty salons is incommensurably high in comparison with the cost price shugaringa.
4. Shugaring involves the removal of the hair bulb, which makes it difficult to grow hair for a long time. And this is much more effective than shaving!
Disadvantages of slugging.
Shugaring has many advantages. Although, there are some disadvantages, but they are easily removable and preventable.
1. It is possible to grow hair in some areas of the treated skin, but they can be removed with a light peel after a while after the procedure.
2. Burns are also not excluded - but similar incidents happen due to the negligence of the girls. It must be remembered that we are dealing with hot syrup, and the finished mixture should be surely cooled to a safe temperature, and then used.
Epilation in the home: preparation of a mixture for shugaring.
The recipe presented below assumes a large amount of sugar mass for repeated use.
You will need:
- 1 kg of sugar,
- 8 tbsp. l. water,
- 7 tbsp. l. lemon juice.
If you do not have lemon juice, then you can replace it with citric acid in the correct proportion. Lemon juice gives the mass the necessary viscidity.
It is necessary to mix all the ingredients in a small container, cook, stirring constantly to prevent burning, at the maximum power of the burner, until the moment when the mass starts bubbling and foaming. And do not move away from the stove! We cook, often stirring to the most important final moment, so that the mash does not turn into hard caramel. It is very important to achieve the desired consistency. Learning to cook the optimally stringy syrup from the first time is unlikely to work out - for sure, it will turn out either undercooked and too liquid, or overcooked and frozen in lollipop after the cooking process is completed. In the first case, you can correct the situation as follows - put the mixture once again on a slow fire and cook, stirring constantly. In the second case, you should warm up the sugar mass in a water bath, pour a little water, and so you will achieve the desired consistency.
Ready mixture is poured into a container on a heat-resistant stand.
The container used for cooking the sugar mass must be poured immediately with water to avoid hardening of the caramel.
Shugaring procedure.
Use a cooled, but not hardened stringy sugar mass can be in a few hours. A small amount of it should be carefully stretched with your hands so that you get a ball of amber color with the consistency of the chewing gum. As a rule, one such ball will help you to process two axillary cavities, 2-3 balls - a zone of bikini, 3-4 lumps will allow to perform a full epilation of the legs. But this is only averages, for each woman the amount of the mixture is strictly individual and depends on the density of the hairline and the area of the treated surfaces.
So, stretch the ball on the skin against the growth of the hair, in order to better fix them in the viscous mass. Hold the skin with one hand to maximize anesthetize it, and the second sharply tear the sticky tape over the growth of the hair. That's all!
To make the shugaring procedure more effective, the skin with hairs of 4-5 mm in length should be treated. Too short hairs are difficult to access, and too long are painfully extracted. Do not do hair removal more than three times at once on one area of the skin - it is traumatic, even a hematoma can form.
Of course, everyone knows that similar mixtures with the same principle of action are sold in stores. But, you see, it's cheaper and easier to do everything yourself.