Methods of hair removal

J Am Acad Dermatol. 1999 Feb;40(2 Pt 1):143-55; quiz 156-7. doi: 10.1016/s0190-9622(99)70181-7.

Abstract

The methods of hair removal vary between simple inexpensive means of home treatment (shaving, plucking, depilatories) to expensive and potentially time-consuming means used by paraprofessionals, nurses, and/or physicians (electrolysis, lasers, x-ray). The ways in which these different methods induce hair removal, the duration of such removal, and the nuances between devices within the same category of methods are discussed.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Hair / physiology*
  • Hair Removal / instrumentation*
  • Hair Removal / methods*
  • Humans