Hot Wax Hair Removal Versus Unheated Wax And Sugaring

What is the difference between hot wax hair removal and unheated wax?
Basically, if you're using hot wax for hair removal, you typically heat the wax in a microwave oven for a few seconds until the wax is soft and liquid-like.

Of course, you don't want to heat it too much because the wax is going on your skin and you don't want to burn yourself!

With non-heated wax-like products, there are several options available:

Wax Stick

I recently tried a wax stick that was basically like a deodorant gel stick. You turn the dial on the wax container so that the wax appears just like you do with your deodorant stick.

Then you apply the wax directly to the skin to be treated just like you'd apply deodorant to your underarms.

Then you use the cloth strips which are supplied to remove the wax and the unwanted hair along with it just like you would with a heated wax kit.

In my experience, the process was slightly cleaner and less messy than heated wax since with heated wax, you generally have to dip a stick into the wax container and then try to apply it to your skin without spilling it everywhere.

It's heated liquid at this point so it can drip, something that you don't have to worry about with the wax stick which is not heated.

There was no dripping with the unheated wax stick that I used.

Sugaring

Sugaring isn't waxing per se since it uses a sugar-substance that looks like toffee, and not wax. The sugaring product I used doesn't have to be heated and is soft enough that it can be applied directly to the skin.

Then a cloth strip is applied to the sugar and as you do with waxing, you quickly pull the cloth strip away from your body removing both the sugar and the unwanted hair.

Since the sugar is a soft but solid substance (ie. it's not a liquid) it doesn't drip and since it doesn't have to be heated, there is no chance of burning yourself or having to deal with a drippy mess.



As far as the results go, in my experience the hot wax hair removal option performed pretty much the same as the wax stick and sugaring in terms of how long the hair removal lasted. I didn't really notice a difference in that regard.

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