How to do shugaring at home
Do It Yourself Educational Program / / December 19, 2019
What is so good shugaring
Shugaring - This epilation thick sugar paste. From other methods of hair removal procedure is different:
- Efficiency. Sugar paste captures even short vegetation, and equipment removal of a mixture (of growth, and not against, as, for example, when waxing) prevents ingrown hairs.
- Availability and ease of use. You can make a paste shugaring their own hands and carry out hair removal procedure in your own bathroom.
- Security. Shugaring not traumatize the skin.
- Naturalness. Classic pasta prepared exclusively from natural ingredients: sugar, water and lemon. The risk of allergy is reduced to a minimum.
- The duration of the effect obtained. After shugaring skin remains smooth for 2-3 weeks.
How to cook pasta
The classic sugar paste
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar;
- ¼ cup of pure water;
- ¼ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice.
If lemon is not at hand, substitute juice apple cider vinegar (6%). Just keep in mind that during the cooking in the kitchen will be a bad smell.
preparation
Mix all ingredients in a saucepan with a thick bottom and put it on a small fire. Stirring constantly, cook for a lot of 7 minutes, until it turns yellow. After that, cook pasta 2-5 more minutes, still stirring. The time depends on the type plate and the force of fire.
To find out if the paste is ready, perform the test. Scoop little spoon sugar mixture and its drip into a beaker of cold water. Just a couple of seconds catch drop. If it has hardened and you can roll a ball out of it, pasta is ready. If a drop of slippery, resilient, boil a mixture of a little more and repeat the test.
Be very careful not to miss a moment of readiness. Near the end of the cooking (immediately after the mass becomes yellow) Test toothpaste every 10-15 seconds.
Cooked pasta pour into a plastic or glass container with a wide mouth. Close the lid and after 5 minutes, send in the refrigerator for a quarter of an hour. During this time the pasta has cooled to the desired temperature: 30-40 ° C. The bottom and the tank wall will be warm.
If you worry about the safety of the refrigerator and do not want to put a very hot mass into it, wait for the cooling at room temperature. In this case, cover the paste cover is not necessary.
Honey paste shugaring
The original paste shugaring on the basis of honey cooked in a microwave oven.
Ingredients
- 1 cup of sugar;
- ¼ cup honey;
- ¼ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice.
preparation
Mix all the ingredients in one container where you will store the paste. If this plastic container, make sure that it can be used in a microwave oven.
Put a weight in an oven and cook for 10-15 seconds at maximum power. Then pull the gurgling pasta, stir and allow to settle. Resend the mixture in the microwave for 10-15 seconds. Repeat the procedure about five times. Repeats may be more or less depending on the device power.
After the fourth time check readiness paste: drip mixture into cold water and try to roll the ball.
How to prepare for the procedure
The skin should be prepared for Shugaring. This also applies to the legs and arms, and underarms, and bikini area. Rate length hair. Ideally, they should be from 4 to 8 mm. However, this requirement is rather arbitrary. Feel free to do hair removal and with a length of 2 mm.
On the eve of shugaring use body scrub (It is better to choose one that is oil-free). Scrubbing removes the horny layer of the skin and ingrown hairs will release, if any.
Immediately before the epilation take a hot shower to steam the skin. So it will be easier to get the paste to the hair bulbs.
Degrease the skin with an alcohol solution and be sure to wipe dry to sugar mass is grasped with hair.
To remove excess moisture can use talcum powder, although some ladies find that powder prevents adhesion of the paste to the skin. Try for yourself and decide how you prefer.
How do shugaring
Scoop a little paste. Lightly knead it with your fingers and apply to the skin against the hair growth. Then abruptly sdornite paste for hair growth, free hand holding the skin.
Not dorgayte paste up! Your fingers should move parallel to the skin.
Treat small areas to hair removal was qualitative. Do not apply the paste to the same place more than three times. Otherwise you risk earn irritation.
There is a second technique shugaring - banding. For it you will need fabric or paper strips. Apply the paste on the treated area against the hair growth. Top with stripes, flatten and sharply tear in the direction of hair growth.
This method is more appropriate for the depilation of legs and arms. But in the underarms and bikini (especially deep) with strips of work is not very convenient. There is better to act punctually.
How to care for skin after shugaring
After the treatment with warm water to rinse off any mixtures thereof. Prepare the skin antiseptic (chlorhexidine or miramistinom) or thermal water. During the day, do not use lotions and scrubs, keep epilate the skin from sunlight, do not visit public reservoirs.
Sometimes after shugaring appear inflammation. To remove them can be for 2-3 days the healing ointment, such as dexpanthenol. Suffice it to lubricate the affected areas several times a day.
How to store pasta
Homemade pasta you should not keep more than a few days, otherwise it may be sugar. Close the jar with the mixture and remove the cover away from heat and light. Before applying the required amount of heat the paste in a water bath.
When you can not do shugaring
Before the procedure, make sure that you do not have contraindications to it. The list includes:
- Mechanical skin damage: scratches, abrasions.
- Skin diseases: dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis, furunculosis.
- Neoplasms of the skin: benign and malignant.
- Acute viral disease. Against the background of reduced immunity hair removal can be very painful.
- Diabetes. Microscopic amounts of sugar penetrates through the pores into the blood vessels.
- Problems with the cardiovascular system. Soreness can cause deterioration of state of health.
It is advisable to consult a doctor Shugaring.