Sugaring hair removal

What's the difference between sugaring and waxing hair removal?

Response from Carl: Waxing is traditionally done by first heating the wax, then applying the warm wax to the skin, placing a cloth on top of the warm wax, and then quickly pulling the cloth off the skin in the opposite direction of the hair.

With sugaring, you tend to just place the sugar - the stuff I've seen looks like a strip of taffy! - on the skin to be treated, massage it or press it down on the hair, and then pull it off similar to how you'd do it with waxing. The difference is that the sugar wasn't heated and no cloth strips were involved. Sugaring is also done by removing the hair in the direction of the growth rather than against it.

The sugaring material is water-based too so it cleans up better than wax. When you've heated up the wax into a liquid, you tend to spill it somewhere...on the floor, counter top and/or on skin that you weren't planning on treating, which means more cleanup!

For many people the fact that you don't have to heat the sugar and that it isn't a liquid gives it an advantage over waxing.

Carl