How to do shugaring (hair removal) at home: cosmetic caramel recipes, a step-by-step algorithm and methods of pain relief

The essence of the procedure is that sweet paste is applied to areas that need to be freed from unnecessary “vegetation”. A thick composition envelops the hairs, after which it is removed with a sharp movement from the skin along with them.

Advantages and disadvantages of the method

The main advantage of the procedure is the long-term result. Since the hairs are removed along with the root, new ones begin to grow only after two to three weeks. The table below will tell about other advantages of the method and its disadvantages.

Table - Home Shugaring: Pros and Cons

Technicians

Sugar paste can be applied and removed in various ways, which are used as independent ones, but are more often combined. There are three main methods of shugaring. Each of the methods has its own specifics, which the table below will help to understand.

Table - Shugaring Methods

Purchased pasta ...

Sugar paste, also called caramel, can be purchased at a specialty store or prepared on its own. What to choose?

Ready pastes are divided into three types, depending on the consistency. Professionals recommend having all of them to ensure variability in use and ease of use. The table below will help determine the choice of caramel.

Table - The specifics of the use of different types of paste

Getting started, the paste needs to be prepared. Each variety requires a special approach:

• soft - warms up to body temperature;
• medium - Heats up to 37-38 ° C in a microwave or wax;
• hard - warmed up in a microwave or wax, then stretched between fingers to a pearlescent color.

... and home

For those who want to avoid unnecessary expenses, the best option is homemade sugar paste for shugaring, making it easy at home. The main thing is to strictly adhere to the recommended proportions to get a product that is convenient to use. The process is carried out in three stages, below it is described step by step.

1. Mix the ingredients. Combine granulated sugar (ten tablespoons without a slide), water (tablespoon), lemon juice (squeezed from half the fruit).
2. We heat up. Bring the mixture to a boil over low heat, stirring constantly.
3. Cook until tender. Do not stop stirring. After boiling, the transparent mass will begin to darken, when it acquires a caramel shade and thickens - the composition is ready. Usually, it takes five to seven minutes to cook the pasta.

After cooling the mixture for shugaring, prepared at home, to a comfortable (warm) temperature, you can tear off a piece to start the procedure. If the paste is not going into a ball and sticks strongly to your hands, you need to boil it a little more. Over time, the composition will harden, for further use it will need to be heated in the microwave. That is, homemade pasta is used in the same way as hard pasta.

Lemon-Free Recipes

In addition to the classic, there are other options for homemade caramel. For example, you can make sugar paste for shugaring without lemon. It is prepared in the same way as traditional, but the ingredients used are different. When introduced into the composition of vinegar, the ingredient is added to the overall mixture after heating. The table below describes the most popular recipes.

Table - Homemade Pasta

Advantages and disadvantages

The use of homemade paste for hair removal has its advantages and disadvantages, which are presented in the table below.

Table - Pros and Cons of a Home Product

What else might you need

In addition to pasta, sugar products at home will require other cosmetic products and tools:

• disinfectant - special lotion or "Chlorhexidine";
• sterile wipes - dry and wet with a neutral pH;
• talc - special for shugaring or ordinary baby powder;
• spatulas, strips - using appropriate techniques.

Shugaring at home: practice

The first procedure is recommended to be carried out in the cabin in order to make a general impression, to see how the master works. This will help to avoid many mistakes. In addition, the first procedure is the most painful, it is much easier psychologically so that the other person performs the necessary manipulations.

Pro Tips

If the hard paste is too hard to knead, you can add some soft caramel to the composition. Or just wet your hands and then wipe them, but not dry (the effect of sweating palms). Here are four more tips to know which is useful for those who decide to do a sugaring at home.

1. Equipment. Before the procedure, you should familiarize yourself with the technology of shugaring, practice in the least sensitive areas (legs, arms). Inadequate handling of sugar paste is fraught with extremely unpleasant, painful sensations. Methodological errors can cause undesirable consequences: puffiness and skin irritation, broken, but not torn hair, bruising and bruising.
2. Optimal length. Hair should be no shorter than 3-5 mm, otherwise the paste will not capture them. However, the removal of too long hair is very painful, so too overgrown "vegetation" must be shortened with a trimmer.
3. Comfortable posture and comfortable temperature. During the procedure, it is necessary to expose certain areas of the body, so it is necessary that the room is warm. With how to settle down during the epilation of armpits and legs, problems usually do not arise. But what if you need to work out the deep bikini zone? “Experienced” recommends sitting on the bathroom floor, armed with a mirror with a handle, to see the study area from all angles.
4. Rest for the skin. If the first time it was not possible to free a certain area from unnecessary hairs, you need to move on to the next, and return to this zone after some time. This method will help avoid skin injury. If during the procedure the pain becomes too strong, you need to take a break, it is best to lie down and relax for at least a few minutes.

Procedure

A day or a few hours before the session, you need to process the skin areas that will be subjected to hair removal, scrub. The “recipe” of shugaring at home can be represented as a seven-step algorithm.

1. Degreasing and disinfection. Wipe a small area of ​​the skin covered with unnecessary hairs with an antiseptic. Blot dry with a sterile cloth.
2. Powder. Powder the skin with talcum powder: due to this, the paste will adhere to the hairs, but not to the epidermis.
3. Paste. Apply the composition warmed to the desired temperature on the skin against hair growth.
4. Removal. Dramatically remove the composition along the growth, stretching the skin between the fingers. In this case, the direction of movement should be parallel to the surface of the body. If your hand goes up, you can injure your skin and hurt yourself.
5. Reiteration. Epilate the next part of the body by repeating steps one to four.Continue until all unwanted “vegetation” has been removed.
6. Cleaning and disinfection. Take a warm shower to remove any remaining paste from the body. Wipe the skin with a disinfectant.
7. Soothing. Apply a calming lotion to the treated areas, it is desirable that the product contains moisturizing ingredients.

Possible “troubles”

When working with pasta, beginners may encounter a number of problems. The table below describes the causes and solutions to the most common ones.

Table - Problems faced by girls in home shugaring

About pain

It is impossible to completely avoid pain during shugaring. But there are three ways to make the procedure more comfortable.

1. Thoughts Before the procedure and during the session, try to think about the immediate result: smooth and delicate skin, about the opportunity to forget about the problem of unnecessary "vegetation" for several weeks, and to feel well-groomed and confident.
2. Hot tub. Before sugar hair removal, lie in the bath for 15-20 minutes, you can light candles. Warm water will steam the skin, open the pores and make the process of removing hair less painful. A pleasant procedure will also help to relax, calm down and come in a good mood.
3. Painkillers. Apply an analgesic to the skin. Usually on online forums it is recommended to anesthetize the skin with Lidocaine and Emloy. "Lidocaine" is available in the form of a spray, which is usually used in gynecology. The effect of the drug extends to the mucous membranes, the effect on the skin, as practice shows, is weakly expressed, it is rather self-hypnosis. Cream "Emla" is a stronger drug in terms of skin anesthesia, but since when the follicle is pulled out, it affects the deep nerve endings, the remedy does not completely relieve the pain.

Skin care after

You can sunbathe in a solarium or on the beach a day after the procedure. During this period, you should not use a deodorant (after shugaring armpits), go to baths and saunas, gyms and a pool.

Between hair removal, the skin needs special care. It is recommended to use moisturizing lotions and body creams with a natural composition, treat the epidermis with a scrub once or twice a week.

Contraindications

During pregnancy, it is possible to resort to shugaring, but only if this method of hair removal is not used for the first time. If a woman carrying a child has never used the “sweet method”, it is better to wait for the birth of the baby. Shugaring is also contraindicated in:

• cuts, wounds and other open skin lesions;
• dermatological pathologies;
• rosacea;
• varicose veins;
• excessively dry, irritated skin;
• increased pain sensitivity;
• individual intolerance to the components of the paste.

It is recommended to resort to the procedure once every four to seven weeks, depending on the intensity of hair growth. Knowing how to do shugaring at home, you can avoid unnecessary spending on trips to beauty salons.

Reviews: "I pour the paste into silicone molds"

I met shugaring about a year ago. I can’t say that it is so wonderful and painless to remove unwanted hair in this way. The most successful pasta I got according to this recipe: 10 tbsp. tablespoons sugar need 2 tbsp. tablespoons of water and 3 tbsp. tablespoons of lemon juice. Firstly, in order to properly cook the paste, you need patience, because the right paste turned out, in my case, from 4 times I got a shugaring that rolled into a ball, it could be applied to the skin and it really removed the hair, although, of course, not everything.
Secondly, to remove hair you need some skill and this procedure for me personally is quite painful. And the most offensive is that the problem of ingrown hair after using shugaring has not changed at all.

And yet, there are some pleasant moments in such depilation - there is almost no irritation, even on such sensitive skin as mine, and the hairs that nevertheless are removed do not grow back so quickly. So I do not give up trying to remove unwanted hair in this way.

Annyshka, http://make-ups.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1159

I want to say that shugaring at home is real. When I did it myself for the first time, it didn’t work out perfectly (the hairs remained in places and were not removed). I had to remove the remaining hair with an epilator. The second time it turned out much better - most hair was removed. She made herself legs along the entire length, arms and armpits. So far, it takes me about 1 hour on both legs. Enough 2 balls of pasta the size of a walnut. Very satisfied. Pain is much less than with an epilator. But the hands, of course, are all sticky. But excess "sweetness" is easily washed off with a little warm water.

Mandarin Duck http://www.woman.ru/beauty/body/thread/4108265/

I cook, according to various recipes. Usually it is 6 tablespoons of sugar and 0.6 tablespoons of citric acid. By the way, it works better with citric acid, it is easier to calculate the proportions, because lemons come in different sizes and different acidity. And another life hack - I pour the finished pasta into small silicone molds. Then you don’t have to dig out the right amount from the frozen mass, just unscrew the mold and that's it) and you can pour the paste of different degrees of readiness, i.e. different density.

Rostovanata, http://womaninc.ru/forum/threads/saxarnaja-pasta-dlja-shugaringa-v-domashnix-uslovijax.647/