Monday, March 15, 2010

Reasons for Removing Hair

Reasons for removing hair

1. Cultural and sexual aspects



2. For religious reasons



3. Medical reasons



4. Male-to-female gender reassignment



5. As punishment
6. In military institutions

Hair Removal

Hair Removal



Hair removal is the practice of removing body hair, and describes the methods used to achieve that result.

Depilation is the removal of the part of the hair above the surface of the skin. The most common form of depilation is shaving or trimming. Another option is the use of chemical depilatories, which work by breaking the disulfide bonds that link the protein chains that give hair its strength, making the hair disintegrate.

Laser Hair Removal

Laser Hair Removal



Epilation by laser was performed experimentally for about 20 years before it became commercially available in the mid 1970s. Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) epilators, though technically not a laser, use xenon flash lamps that emit full spectrum light. Laser and light-based methods, sometimes called phototricholysis or photoepilation, are now most commonly referred to collectively as "laser hair removal". One of the first published articles describing laser hair removal was authored by the group at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1998.
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