Giveaway: Whole Foods Body Care
April 28, 2010 | 12 Comments
**At the end of this post you can enter to win a body care set from Whole Foods**
Whole Foods Market is running a 3-part podcast series promoting the “Premium Body Care” product line they have created.
It’s important to know what is in your skin care products!
The podcasts are on the following topics:
1. Premium Body Care® – A Worthy Challenge- discusses how their standard helps define what “Natural” really means in body care products.
2. In Holding the Bar High in Natural Body Care you’ll hear about why these strict natural guidelines are important. You’ll also learn about Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a national coalition of health and environmental groups that are working to eliminate harmful chemicals from personal care products.
3. Positive Changes for the Industry, for Everyone looks at how these standards raise the bar for the natural body care industry as a whole.
You can check these podcasts out here: Whole Body Care podcast
Now for the giveaway!
* First listen to the podcasts.
* Then come back here and leave a comment letting me know what you think.
* In 2 weeks (Wednesday May 12 at NOON Eastern time), I’ll randomly pick one commenter to win this Whole Body, Body Care package. (Be sure to leave a valid email address in your comment.)
Act Natural Hair Color Review
February 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment
I’ve talked about natural hair color on the blog before so I was eager to try this product. It’s from a company called ACT (Advanced Cosmetic Technologies). Their website is http://www.ActNaturals.com.
Unfortunately, I can’t give this product a glowing review.
I was excited about using an all natural, vegetable based dye to (hopefully) cover the grey roots that have been growing since my pregnancy began, but it didn’t do that so well.
To be fair, grey hair is notoriously resistant to color and even conventional semi and demi permanent hair colors often don’t color it sufficiently. It may just not be possible to color grey without chemicals.
If you search the internet you’ll find some really horrible reviews of this product. My thoughts are far less extreme either way so I’ll do a quick list of pros and cons:
PROS:
- The product is a natural, vegetable based dye and therefore has no PPD (short for paraphenylene-diamine, which I mention here in another article about natural hair dye). It also contains no ammonia or peroxide (so it cannot lighten, only darken your current hair color).
- It has a fresh, pleasant smell. When my oldest son walked in the room he said “something smells like cherries”.
CONS:
- The product was a little more complicated to apply. It’s a two step process and also requires the application of heat (basically you use a blow dryer to apply heat for 5 minutes on, 5 minutes off until you rinse). That wasn’t a super big deal, but the product is a little runny so it’s hard to keep it off your scalp, which leads to the second problem.
- The dye was very difficult to rinse off. I rinsed my hair 3 times but it still felt a little “muddy” with the product. Even now after several shampoos, dye comes off on my hands if I run them through my hair. The included “stain guard” did effectively remove stains from the sink at least.
That last issue is evidently par for the course for vegetable dyes. In fact today I got my hair cut and explained to the hair dresser what was happening. She said that was typical. “We use vegetable dyes here all the time and that’s just what they do, the pigments are just really strong.”
My hair doesn’t feel at all damaged or dried out. It feels soft and looks shiny so I’m pretty confident it wasn’t harmed by the process.
My final take?
I would recommend this product for people who have medium to dark hair (that is more forgiving of color mishaps) and wanted to go a bit darker, but not if I had grey hair I wanted to color.
Safe Pregnancy Skin Care
December 15, 2009 | 3 Comments
Did you get choosy about your skin care products when you were pregnant?
I was pleasantly surprised to find a warning against phthalates in a recent magazine I subscribe to (it was Fit Pregnancy which I consider to be pretty mainstream).
The last time I was pregnant that information was hardly on the radar for most mainstream media.
Phthalates are an ingredient found in many skin care products such as lotions, shampoos and nail polish. It may or may not be on the label and may fall under the umbrella “fragrance”.
What I find so interesting is the typical pregnant woman’s response to such “fragrance”.
Personally, the smell of any conventional shampoo and soap make me overwhelmed with nausea and I begin to gag. I wonder if this isn’t a protective response? (Burt’s Bees shampoo I am tolerating just fine. It’s also phtalate free.)
Now that I’m expecting again, I’m getting picky about my skin care. I had let some items with parabens sneak into my bathrooms. These have to go.
What did you use on your skin when you’re pregnant that’s nontoxic and safe?
Skin care is a bit tricky during pregnancy. On the one hand you may have rashes and itching due to increased sensitivity, but also be experiencing breakouts.
My favorite “go to” product is coconut oil. It seems you can’t get much better than coconut oil as a safe skin care product when you’re pregnant.
It’s great as a face and body moisturizer and hair conditioner, as a spot treatment for pimples – you can even use it as an *ahem* personal lubricant. (And since it’s antifungal, that can only be good for the nether regions and those sneaky yeast infections that can crop up when you’re pregnant – thanks to the extra estrogen.)
I’m also liking Belli All Day Moisture Lotion. It does have a mild lemon scent that comes from lemon oil, not synthetic fragrance, and it’s paraben and phtalate free and doesn’t bother my sensitive nose.
photo credit: Vivian Chen [陳培雯]
Your Mother Was Right: Traditional Beauty Tips
December 14, 2009 | 3 Comments
Your Mother Was Right:
Traditional Beauty Tips that Pass the Test of Time
Everyone hates being told “I told you so”, and most women also hate thinking their mother was right.
However, on stepping upon the threshold of 30, and with my mother now in her early sixties, I can’t help but notice that on a good day, she looks not more than maybe only five or ten years older.
And with each wrinkle, thinned out skin or spot I notice, I hear her quite literally echoing voice telling me “I told you so”. So what was it exactly that she used to always harp on about while growing up?
Quite simply – endless beauty tips that at that time seemed to have been written on stone tablets alongside Moses’ 10 Commandments. But these then thought of as primitive beauty routines now seem charming and simple in an age where we’re constantly fed a barrage of beauty adverts and overly photo-shopped images of perfection.
In my own desperate attempt to look great, I have ventured down every possible winding road that ultimately lead me nowhere, and pick-pocketing my hard earned dollars with daylight robbery rates and empty promises of youth and beauty. I finally decided to throw in the towel and revert to the ‘old ways’ of doing things…
Best Kept Beauty Secrets
Face
* For smooth skin, crush four uncoated aspirins and mix 1 cup distilled water and ¼ cup apple cider vinegar. Use this 2-3 times a day for incredibly smooth skin and as an alternative to washing your face in the morning.
* If you have sensitive skin acne-prone, stay away from rich spicy foods, which only irritate and inflame your system.
* Sleep. Staying up too late or not getting enough sleep wreaks havoc on your skin, causing it to look dull, tired, and likely leading to breakouts.
* Use patchouli oil to quickly get rid of acne. Mix 10 drops of this strong smelling oil with 10 oz of almond oil as a nightly moisturizer and anti-wrinkle treatment. It’s got a potent smell; some people love it, others hate it, but it works like a charm.
Hair
* For soft hair, massage your scalp with coconut oil once a week, working it into your hair. Leave it in there for about 3 hours prior to washing it out with shampoo. Use just a dab of conditioner at the ends.
* For shiny hair, mix one egg (yolk and all) with a mashed up banana and apply it as a thick paste to your hair. Leave it on for 10-30 minutes, depending on your hair texture. Then, wash it out as usual and use conditioner only at the ends.
* For natural hair dye, use henna and add in a bit of lemon to the paste. Leave it in your hair for about 30 minutes to one hair for a natural reddish/auburn tint.
Body
* Use a mixture of pure olive oil with 1/2 parts sea salt as an in-shower body scrub. This combo completely eliminates the need for lotion and is great for winter weather.
* Make sure you get in some sort of physical activity. Our mothers and grandmothers stayed in shape with simple stretches, and not grueling hours at the gym. Try reaping the benefits of yoga as a way to maintain your girlish figure.
* Washing your hair with boiled rice water is also a great alternative for shiny hair.
The results of my little experiment and in following these tips have been absolutely smashing. I never looked better and the extra savings from not having to splurge on beauty products is the fondant on the cake.
Your Mother Was Right is written by freelance writer Shireen Qudosi. Follow her on Twitter @ShireenQ or email her at shireen.qudosi@hotmail.com
A Giveaway for Your Belli
October 21, 2009 | 8 Comments
Pregnant and nursing moms will especially be interested in this giveaway from Belli skincare.
I got a chance to try out some of the Belli skin care here and published a review.
This time I got my hands (and legs!) on the All Day Moisture Body Lotion.
And as I wrote previously,
“The nice thing about these products is that they are free of synthetic dyes, phthalates and paraben preservatives, and the Belli Motherhood line is LactMed screened to avoid ingredients that may be questionable during breastfeeding.”
The All Day Moisture Lotion has lemon oil and so smells like a slice of lemon cream pie heaven.
The folks at Belli are letting me give away a gift set to a reader!
This one is called the Motherhood Essentials Kit.
It includes: Pure Comfort Nursing Cream, Eye Brightening Cream, Body Firming Serum and Moisturizing Hand Sanitizer.
To win, simply leave your name, a valid email and a comment below.
A winner will be randomly chosen on Wednesday, October 28 at Noon (Eastern).
How To Have Naturally Shiny Hair
October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment
There are all kinds of products that crowd drugstore shelves claiming to make your hair shiny. Many of them rely on silicones.
While they’re probably not terribly harmful for your hair, silicone has to go through a lot of chemical processing for use in hair care products which leaves a big eco footprint. Some people also notice build up if they use products containing silicones frequently. They also tend to be expensive.
If you’re looking for a way to have naturally shiny hair, here are a few ideas:
Honey. 
Honey not only smells wonderful, it’s also a powerful humectant (meaning is draws moisture from the air), so it’s a nice moisturizer for your skin and hair.
It will leave your hair shiny and silky. Add a few drops of honey to your hair after washing, allow to soak in, and rinse away.
photo credit: ATKR / Stryker W@SP
Apple Cider Vinegar.
Vinegar is fantastic for putting shine into the hair. Simply pour a little ACV onto your hair after shampooing and rinse away with cool water.
Coffee.
Coffee is also great for shine, especially for brunettes obviously. Add half a cup of cooled strong coffee to your hair after shampooing and rinse away with cold water.
Olive oil.
If your hair is very dry olive oil can really help it. It will nourish the dry hair and also leave it shiny and silky. Add a few drops of warm olive oil to towel dried hair and leave in for 20 minutes to an hour. Then rinse with cold water.
Coconut Oil.
This is one of my favorite hair care tips. I rub a little coconut oil into my damp hair after shampooing and comb it through with a wide tooth comb. My extra dry, curly hair has never been shinier!
Less Shampooing.
Shampooing a little less frequently (you may be able to get away with once a week if your scalp isn’t greasy) can lead to shinier hair. Rinsing your scalp thoroughly every day (such as when you exercise or get sweaty) is usually adequate.
Best Kept Green Beauty Secrets
August 9, 2009 | 3 Comments
I have a few green beauty secrets of my own. For example, coconut oil is amazing for your skin, hair, face and internals. Here are a few more contributed by a guest author. Enjoy!
Best Kept Green Beauty Secrets
Find out what top three factors wreak havoc on our skin, and what the best kept natural secrets are for looking your best.
With the rat race to keep up with the newest products, we’re not only wasting hard earned dollars, but vacuum through an enormous amount of products that wreak havoc on our skin and environment. Yet, all the products and spa treatments in the world don’t beat the basic things we can do to keep ourselves looking our best.
photo credit: quinn.anya
Sleep
There’s a reason it’s called beauty sleep. Not sleeping enough is a sure fire way to wake up looking like you’re ready for Halloween. But if you can’t catch up on your zzz’s, make sure you have a few tricks up your sleeve.
The most fast-acting cheapest trick is to use a bit of rose water on a cotton ball, and dab it on your eyes. This is an instant pick me up, smells great, and costs next to nothing! Rose water even works great as a toner, acting as an antibacterial cleaner minus alcohol.
Sun-Exposure
Everyone knows that excessive sun exposure is one of the worst things you can do for your skin, but we all still covet that Hollywood orange (I mean, “golden”) glow. Tanning beds are no better. Neither are chemically saturated self tanning lotions. But turmeric, a dark yellow spice native to India, has been used for centuries by Indian women to provide a natural glow.
Mix half a teaspoon of turmeric with whole milk to get a paste, and leave it on a facial mask for five minutes. After you wash it away, you’ll notice a soft golden glow without the use of chemicals or plastics – and you’ll have done something great for your skin.
Aside from making skin soft and supple, turmeric has immense healing properties including getting rid of acne and discoloration. This mustard colored spice can also be mixed in larger amounts and used anywhere on your body to reveal your inner golden goddess. Best of all, you only need to travel as far as your local grocer to pick it up.
But if you want it at pennies on the dollar, and want to support local mom and pop stores, skip large scale commercial grocers and pay a visit to any Middle Eastern or South Asian supermarket. While you’re there, pick up a bottle of rose water too, and save yourself the shipping cost plus the wasted paper and energy of mailing.
Mind and Body
Creating more stress in your life is a fantastic way to invite all kinds of diseases to attack the body. Equally as bad, stress is reflected on you face the minute you experience it.
When you’re chronically stressed, the adrenal glands are forced to work overtime and eventually exhaust themselves, inhibiting the immune system and triggering a number of health complications.
One of the best stress fighters is exercise – but there’s one problem with a routine trip to the gym. The constant noise of bad gym music and weight stacks falling abruptly is hardly a recipe for de-stressing. Point being, the gym offers an opportunity to train the body, but not the mind.
A great alternative is yoga. These simple stretching exercises have been used by civilizations for over thousands of years and far surpass the manic hustle and bustle of corporate health clubs.
A switch to yoga effectively trains both mind and body and keeps you away from wasting money on health clubs, which only deplete resources but are proven to be breeding grounds for illness.
Oxygen
All living things need oxygen, and our skin is no exception. The trick is finding the right way to harness a natural free element that’s already around you.
There are two ways to deliver oxygen to your face. The first is an oxygen facial. For about $500 a treatment, you can get oxygen blasted directly at your face. This is a favorite of Madonna, who loves it so much that she dropped $7,000 to have her own unit at home. Oxygen calms inflammation, treats acne, kills bacteria, drives antioxidants and vitamins into the skin, and makes your skin younger looking by providing oxygen to the skin cells. 1
The second way revolves around the hype of beauty products that claim to tote O2 in their product. Oxygen is a gas. There is no way to put that into a cream, keep it there, and then have it released when it hits your skin. Even if creams did provide some extra oxygen to the skin, the effects would last only minutes at best.
But cost conscious beauty whizzes have wisened up to the smart cost-effective way to get a similar treatment for far less. The buzz has already been hovering around the idea of using high quality air purifiers, such as Blueair Air Purifiers, Austin Air Air Filters, and IQAir Air Cleaners.
The air purifiers filter the air and create an optimal clean air environment rich with pure O2. For added benefit, regardless of beauty objectives, it’s advised to have one in your room while you sleep. With the average person sleeping for about 6 hours a night, you’re guaranteed a long fresh O2 session by the time you wake up. Oxygen’s also become the must have for the dressing room of any beauty maven, regardless of whether you’re a natural beauty or a glamazon.
Shireen Qudosi is a consumer awareness writer with http://www.air-purifier-home.com
Follower her on Twitter @AirPurifierHome
Homemade Shampoo Recipes
July 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
Store bought hair shampoo, in addition to being an expense, usually has several questionable 
chemical ingredients that your hair, eyes and skin don’t need.
Especially if you’re using shampoo on your babies and kids, you want to be careful about the products you choose.
photo credit: flash.pro
Often the best hair products are the simplest ones – for instance, I’ve been using coconut oil on my hair as a pre-wash conditioning treatment, a pre-swim protectant, a styling aid and leave on conditioner (depending on when and how much I apply).
Did you know that you can experiment with homemade shampoo recipes made from stuff that can be found in your own pantry?
Here are a few homemade shampoo recipes to get you started:
Avocado, Honey and Milk Shampoo
(best for dry, damaged or color treated hair)
#1 – Peel the avocado, remove the seed and place in blender
# 2 – Add a tablespoon of honey.
#3 – Add ½ cup of milk to avocado and honey.
#4 – Blend on high until smooth. Use within three days. If you have some left over you can simply cover it and store in the refrigerate.
Honey, Seaweed and Lemon Shampoo
(best for oily hair)
#1 – place ¼ cup of dry seaweed pieces (available at most grocery or health food stores) in a large bowl.
#2 – Add 1 tablespoon of honey to seaweed.
#3 – Add the juice of one lemon to seaweed and honey.
#4- Mix well and set aside for 30 minutes so that ingredients can infuse together. Use on hair as you would any shampoo. Cover any leftovers and store in the fridge for up to 5 days.
More:
Natural hair care treatments (including more simple homemade shampoo recipes)
P.S. Another benefit to making your own homemade shampoo would be: no plastic bottles to recycle! The waste created from these natural ingredients can be tossed into the compost heap.
Natural Sunscreen
June 14, 2009 | 3 Comments
Summertime is here and we’ve spent nearly every day outside, often at the pool or just hanging out in the yard.
The kids are getting as brown as nuts but noone has had even the slightest bit of red.
We all hear how important it is to take precautionary measures to ensure the kid’s safety in the sun, but limited sun exposure can actually be beneficial. In fact, some scientists claim that some skin cancers are caused by lack of adequate sun exposure (related to low vitamin D levels).
Everyone needs to soak in a few minutes of sun every day in order to absorb vitamin D into their body.
Newborns, of course, should really limit their sun exposure during the first few weeks of life. This means using shaded stroller covers, a window shade in the car and perhaps using an umbrella if you are holding the baby. If you wear your baby in a ring sling, you can use the “tail” to cover him up, as long as it isn’t too hot.
After a few weeks of age, the baby can be exposed to the sun in limited amounts, but they should be protected in order to do so. It was once thought by the medical community that babies less than 6 months of age should not wear sunscreen at all; for fear that their skin is too sensitive. The American Pediatrics Association now recommends that even smaller babies wear sunscreen. But, it’s important to find one that is safe.
I wrote about this topic last year too: Healthy, safe, effective sunscreen. The EWG (Environmental Working Group) is coming out with more info shortly on the subject, and you can go to their site to get the report on sun safety free of charge when it’s ready.
According to them:
“An investigation of nearly 1,000 brand-name sunscreen products finds that 4 out of 5 contain chemicals that may pose health hazards or don’t adequately protect skin from the sun’s damaging rays. Some of the worst offenders are leading brands like Coppertone, Banana Boat, and Neutrogena.”
Of course, hats and long clothing can also serve as protection from the sun. But who wants to spend
summertime covered up?
Natural Sunscreen
Recently I got a bottle of sunscreen from Oceana Naturals. Instead of the chemicals found in conventional sunscreens, it uses zinc oxide for protection from the sun. It also has antioxidants (which I’ll talk more about in a second) among its ingredients such as green tea, vitamin E, and date extract.
A read of the ingredients listing shows nothing unnatural – I can pronounce all of the words. All of it looks like food in fact! It’s also free of synthetic preservatives and fragrance. The natural oils give it a lovely scent. And unlike many sunscreens, you can apply it and get protection immediately. If you want to purchase a natural sunscreen, this would be a good choice.
Coconut Oil as a Sunscreen
For many generations, native populations living in tropical climates and islands have used coconut oil to protect their skin from the sun. The author of “The Coconut Oil Miracle”, Bruce Fife, shows how coconut oil is very beneficial for skin and body.
It can be used as a natural sunscreen and can even help absorb nutrients in the body, such as the much needed vitamin D. It also makes your skin incredibly soft and is surprisingly non-greasy. I feed coconut oil (and CLO) to the kids and they spend a couple of hours a day in the sun, and never get burned. I also haven’t used any sunscreen at all on them so I know it must be working.
Another Reason to Take Your CLO
You can also help protect your child’s skin from the sun by the type of food they eat. Free radicals are responsible for sunburn as well as the damage (premature wrinkling, skin cancer) from too much time spent in the sun.
Eating foods rich in antioxidants can help fight free radicals in the air and strengthen body’s resistance to UVA and UVB rays. Antioxidant-rich foods include berries, legumes, vegetables, citrus and green tea.
Cod liver oil may also have a protective effect because of the omega 3 fatty acids and vitamin D content. The University of Manchester published results of a study that pointed to a reduced risk of sunburn and skin cancer among people who take cod liver oil supplements.
Interestingly, the other week I got a touch of sunburn on my shoulders, but had been slacking on my CLO. It was a reader who reminded me of the connection. I started taking it again and haven’t had any problem since – even though we’ve been at the pool every day for weeks!
Sugaring
May 30, 2009 | 9 Comments
I’m blessed with lots and lots of dark, thick, coarse, wavy, curly hair.
Yeah, and the mane on my head isn’t half bad either.
Seriously though, being a hairy kind of gal can be a mixed bag.
I just signed the kids up for swimming lessons, and bought a pool pass. There will be swimming, maybe a trip to the beach, not to mention the everyday shorts and skirts of summer.
photo credit: Oneras [what about peace?]
I spend the first weeks of summer trying to figure out how to deal with it. If I were blonde and had thinner hair, I would probably just go au naturel.
But I’m not that crunchy.
If I were stranded on some deserted island, I would find a sharp flinty rock to take care of business. Now when it comes to pit hair? I don’t mind that a bit. But unfortunately, I live in the United States.
If a woman as hot as Madonna can disgust an entire nation with a little pit hair, who am I to try to rock the cultural expectations of beauty boat?
When I heard about sugaring, I was immediately intrigued.
Firstly, the ingredients are all natural – sugar, lemon juice, water – you can even make up a batch of the stuff yourself. Google for recipes, there are several on the internet.
Similar to waxing, you are basically applying a sticky substance to your skin, pressing it down with linen cloth strips, and ripping in the other direction. You first apply the sugaring wax with this little plastic thingie Then you apply the cloth strip on top, and rub it 3 or 4 times in the direction of hair growth. Then, holding the skin taut with your other hand, you quickly pull the strip back quickly as close to the skin as possible in the opposite direction of hair growth.
I had also heard that sugaring was less painful than waxing, which was a huge plus in my mind.
Traditional waxing makes you want to slap your mama for being more Italian than native American.
I went to the drug store and bought a NADS Sugaring Kit
It certainly WAS far less painful than traditional waxing.
My complaint with this product is that there are far too few cloth strips. You CAN wash and reuse them, which makes this a pretty eco-friendly hair removal product, as well as recycle the plastic tub the wax comes in.
I also didn’t know until I was nearly done that you can continue using the same strip over and over until it no longer picks up any hair. Even when it’s all gooped up with sugaring wax. This makes it a little tougher to smooth it on your leg, but I found that I could use each one two or three times and it was still effective.
I have washed all the strips and dried them about 3 times now and they still work great.
The thing that’s great about waxing/sugaring is that the hair tends to grow back more sparse and thin.
If you keep it up, you’ll find that you have to do it less and less. So even if you go back to shaving or whatever, you can go longer inbetween hair removal sessions.
Of course, it’s more work and time spent up front. If you’re looking to save time, waxing may or may not actually be a time savings.
Sugaring also doesn’t seem to remove as much of the finer, thinner hairs as waxing.
In fact, I called around to several Atlanta spas to see if any of them offered sugaring. I had to call 5 or 6 before I found one that even offered it. And when I spoke with the aesthetician, she seemed very unenthusiastic about sugaring. She told me that she isn’t that pleased with the results, and often has to use a bit of regular wax after the sugaring process in order to get all of the hair. I asked her if the clients seemed happy with the results, and she reported that they did – so that seemed to be the key thing to me.
I’m not THAT picky. I don’t have to get every single last hair, as long as I don’t look like a hairy beast I’m ok. Nobody is going over my legs with a magnifying glass. And it’s not like there is a man feeling me up. (Besides, the last time I was actually having sex, if memory serves, my ex-husband couldn’t have cared less about a little stray hair or fuzz.)
And since shaving exfoliates your legs, you have to remember to exfoliate on a regular basis when you do sugaring or waxing, otherwise you’ll get ashy.
Overall I like the sugaring kit and intend on buying it again. Amazon’s prices are better than the drug store prices.
I did notice that in addition to less pain, the sugaring didn’t make my legs all red, angry and screaming at me.
Here are a couple of tips to make sugaring work better:
- Wash your legs (or wherever you’ll be sugaring) with soap and water, rinse thoroughly and dry well. Your legs need to be very clean and dry for the sugar to grip the hair properly.
- Warm the wax first by placing the closed tub in a pan of hot water. You don’t want it thin and runny, but it’s much easier to spread and there’s less waste if you melt it a bit.
- Even though sugaring is less painful than waxing, it’s still pulling hair out at the root and hurts a little. Don’t wax or sugar right before your period when your body is more sensitive to pain. If you’re really sensitive, you might want to take a pain reliever half an hour before you start sugaring. Me? I sometimes drink a beer before I do it.
- Make sure the hair is long enough before you start. This is one of the hardest parts! It should be about half a centimeter long, at least.
- After sugaring, rinse the area with cool water to remove the last bits of sugar. Cold water can feel really nice too.
So.
What do YOU do for hair removal?
