Intimate Hair Removal: 6 Popular Methods Reviewed

We have all been through this phase of the agitating urge to ask so many questions on intimate hair removal, but it sometimes gets embarrassing and many simply shy away from even trying to ask. Well, there’s nothing embarrassing about talking about something that is so natural to the human race.

Everybody goes through puberty. Everybody gets hair in places they didn’t expect to get. And when it comes to grooming, not everybody naturally knows how to maintain the hygiene down there. This guide is your ultimate solution to many of your concerns. There are so many ways you can remove intimate hair that too across many pain levels and longevity results.

1. Shaving: Cheapest Hair Removal

Shaving is the bread and butter to most. Typically speaking, most clean-shaven men rely on nothing other than a razor to keep that clean, neatly shaved look. But as far as intimate areas are concerned, most men and women have their trusty razor, which is either manual or electric, to assist them with pubic hair removal.

A razor, with which we shave, has a long and narrow handle for you to hold and the end rests the blade, and it is either disposable or reusable where the blade is either angled or straight.

As you glide the razor across your skin, it will cut the hair from the surface, leaving a little sharp end of the hair behind, which may seem barely visible at the start, but over time it can sometimes become the bane of your existence attributing to irritation, ingrown hairs, razor bumps, cuts and rough texture.

The cost of razors is variable. Certain brands are more expensive than others and factors like the quality of the razor tend to play a role in it too. Your choice of tool would too ultimately matter on the cost of shaving. These are some of the tools that you can consider to shave with, along with their average purchasing price.

• Disposable razors: $0.30
• Electric Razors: $20-$100
• Cartridge Razors: $0.27-$0.30
• Straight Razors: $100-$400
• Professional Shaves: $30-$60

Shaving happens to be one of the least painful methods of hair removal since your root is practically untouched and no chemicals are involved in the process of shaving (unless you use certain shaving creams, but most are usually not irritable).

Shaving is possibly the last method to consider for hair removal if you want your intimate area to be clean and smooth for at least a week. Shaving lasts around 1-3 days before you start seeing your hair grow back.

Step-by-step guide for intimate hair removal with shaving:

1. Have a pre-shave routine, where you cleanse the area thoroughly and exfoliate with a gentle scrub. Warm water will help open up your pores and soften the hair a bit, to help glide the razor as smoothly as possible.
2. Apply your shaving cream. Your shaving experience will be better if it is alcohol and fragrance-free.
3. Make sure that your razor is clean and sharp before you start shaving. And as you do, gently shave in the direction of hair growth as it will best protect you from potentially growing ingrown hair.
4. After each stroke be sure to run the razor under water, so all the hair and dead skin cells are thoroughly removed giving you the same clean shaving experience in your second stroke.
5. Perform an after-shave routine, where you clean the area thoroughly once more, before applying an after-shave lotion or a non-comedogenic oil/moisturiser.

2. IPL Hair Removal: Most Cost-Effective Hair Removal

IPL Hair removal is the best option you have at hand where you can perform at-home vagina hair removal treatments that last the longest. IPL makes use of Intense Pulsed Light. In easy words, light, that is so powerful because it is being emitted at such intensity, topped off with emission in pulses, that it will burn what it comes in contact with.

The reason why this technology is so efficient in bikini hair removal is because the sensors direct the device to identify the pigmented hair on top of the light-toned skin. This way, the IPL only targets the hair, while the skin remains untouched.

This technology has been a breakthrough and where companies like Ulike have focused on pairing it with advanced mechanisms like sapphire ice cooling technology, this delivers a far more comfortable experience of using it making it one of the best hair removal for female private parts.

The only downside remains that since it works best for individuals with light skin tones and dark hair, it may not be suitable for everybody and it also has a relatively higher initial cost. But it’s ultimately not as expensive if you look at the bigger picture.

At-home IPL treatments cost an average of $190. A good IPL device would cost you anywhere from $250- $600

IPL devices are usually painful as it feels like a snap on the skin when operated, but IPL devices like Ulike which uses advanced ice-cooling technology provide a nearly painless experience.

It usually has long-lasting results, but you will likely start noticing them around after 6-8 weeks.

Step by step guide for intimate hair removal with IPL hair removal:

1. Perform a proper shaving routine a day before you intend on using the IPL device (for this guide, we will consider using Ulike Air 10), as you would want the hair to be as short as possible to minimise the potential of burning the skin. The skin can only burn if the hair is long enough and the burned hair touches your skin
2. Wash the skin thoroughly.
3. Plug Ulike Air 10 in to supply power to it and turn the device on. Make sure to put on all the protective gear including eyewear that comes with Ulike Air 10.
4. Choose from the 4 modes of your choice, but for intimate areas the best choice would be SkinSensor (SS). It will automatically adjust the power to work with and will stop flashing around the dark areas of the skin,
5. Use a dry rag to clean the device. And as for your skin, use a good fragrance-free, non-comedogenic moisturiser.

3. Waxing: Most Painful Hair Removal

For somebody who is new to the term waxing, think of sticking a really adhesive tape to your hair on your body and then proceeding to rip it off at such speed that all the hair comes with it. Ouch. Yes, it is painful, but at the end of the day, beauty is pain.

Waxing has been around for ages now, and it has had its evolution across the times as well. Today, we know waxing to be a largely famous choice for hair removal where there exist different options of waxing methods too. Some of these methods include hot waxing, cold waxing, strip waxing, and sugaring. Each of these serves its exclusive benefits and drawbacks.

Regardless, its major pro remains the fact that it pulls out the hair from the root, giving you a much longer time span across which the hair grows back. The con is the fact that it is painful, can sometimes irritate skin and can be a little messy depending on the type of waxing method you choose.

The average spent for Waxing for Brazilian or Bikini line is around $20-$50

It is one of the most painful methods of hair removal but over time as one gets used to waxing, the pain tolerance gradually increases.

It lasts an average of 3-6 weeks, as it pulls the hair out right from its roots, ultimately where the hair doesn't just grow back slower but weaker as well, giving you a better waxing experience the second time around.

Step by step guide for intimate hair removal with Waxing:

1. Clean and gently scrub the area, and also make sure that the hair length is at a desirable length for waxing at 1/4th inch.
2. Apply the wax in the direction of hair growth in small sections, and pull it across the hair growth. This is applicable to all forms of waxing from sugaring to hard wax.
3. Apply a soothing lotion or a non-comedogenic soothing oil like tea tree or jojoba oil.

4. Hair Removal Cream: Easiest Hair Removal

Intimate Hair removal creams reign in the painless hair removal methods territory. You simply slather on the cream, wait a couple of minutes, and simply wipe the cream off and the hair comes along with it. That’s right, “wipe”, not “shave”, not “rub”. Literally just wipe. Like you would wipe the dust off of a surface. It is that easy.

But these depilatory creams are hiding a lot under their convenience. These creams only help you remove the surface of the hair, not the root. The cream sits on top of the surface of your skin and with time the chemicals within the cream dissolve the hair where they can so easily come off.

And this is where the fall of hair removal creams begins. The chemicals used in them are not the best for your skin and can over time make your skin sensitive and irritable. Not to mention the God-awful smell it has.

The cost of depilatory creams depends brand to brand, but taking the most famous brand into example, Veet intimate hair removal cream would cost you around  $5.89 for a 30-gram tube.

Now it wouldn’t be fair to simply say that you won’t feel a thing. Since there are certainly triggering chemicals in the cream, it might cause you some discomfort.

Its results are similar to shaving, as it only removes the hair off of the surface, leaving the root intact so you start noticing the hair grow back in a day or so.

Step-by-step guide for intimate hair removal with hair removal cream:

1. Clean the area thoroughly with soap.
2. Slather the cream on to the hair and let it rest for what the recommended time is mentioned on the packaging of the depilatory cream.
3. Either scrape it off with a spatula. If a spatula is not provided, you can use a rag and wipe off the cream along with the hair.

5. Laser Hair Removal: Most Expensive Hair Removal

Laser hair removal is another hair removal method which uses lasers to destroy hair follicles. Now, right off the bat, yes the technology is the same as IPL, only except for a couple of differences.

The major difference being instead of using broad-spectrum light used in IPL, laser hair removal uses a more focused wavelength light with much more intensity, and because of this reason you will not commonly see it being performed at homes.

The technology needs a lot more caution and care while handling and so ultimately you would have to book appointments from an aesthetician and get your hair removed through the clinical process of hair removal.

The aestheticians are required to have training before they take the plunge at offering hair removal services. So no, you most definitely can not do this at home. But since it is more focused, it is more suitable for intimate areas than an IPL device.

For the bikini line, the cost of getting laser hair removal in a professional’s clinic is around $30-$150.

There is no telling as to what the pain level is in laser hair removal as some people report it be mildly painful, while to others it doesn't bother at all.

It is most certainly not a permanent solution, but it gives long lasting results lasting from anywhere around 1-6 years.

Step-by-step guide for intimate hair removal with Laser Hair Removal.

1. An aesthetician performs laser hair removal and you are not directed to perform it at home unless you are licensed to do so. As you reach a laser hair removal clinic, you will have an elaborative consultation, assessment, and realistic expectation plan.
2. Stay away from any kind of active skincare ingredients, especially exfoliants, tanning beds, sun exposure, or hair removal methods before your appointment.
3. The practitioner will do a patch test before beginning the process.
4. The practitioner will begin by shaving the area, leaving at most 2mm of hair behind.
5. They will use a hand-held device that uses selective photothermolysis, where the laser's heat destroys cells with a lot of pigment, which is why dark hair absorbs the most heat
6. A proper aftercare will be followed, along with multiple more sessions followed by a couple of week’s gap.

6. Epilator: Most Efficient Hair Removal

Think multiple tweezers that are attached to a roller like device and as you glide that device across your skin, the roller rolls, and as the roller rotates across your skin their hair is being tweezed out. This is the glorious representation of what an epilator device is capable of.

Naturally, a very sane question pops in the mind of many. Why epilator? The question makes sense, because it is sometimes unfathomable as to why anyone would put themselves through so much pain only for something as simple as hair removal.

Well, it is less messier than waxing, more long-lasting than shaving, more precise than IPL and more convenient than laser. The only major downside remains the excruciating pain.

The average cost of an epilator device ranges from $30-$50

Epilators use a tweezing mechanism to help with hair removal and when you take that up on a larger scale, the pain becomes considerably more.

Since an epilator pulls the hair out from the root, we know the hair takes around 1-3 weeks to grow back

Step by step guide for intimate hair removal with Epilator.

1. Clean the area thoroughly.
2. Glide the epilator across the skin as it tweezes out multiple hair in one go. It is advised to go fast instead of slow, this will help minimise the pain as you will get used to it faster.
3. Apply a calming lotion or a soothing oil to heal the skin faster and reduce irritability.

Bottomline

No matter the choice of your hair removal, at the end of the day it is a personal choice whether to remove hair or not. But when it comes to maintaining hygiene in the intimate area, it is best you keep it groomed.

An advice on what hair removal method you should go for would be; choose the method you feel most comfortable in. If you value your time more than pain and longevity, consider shaving or depilatory creams. If you value a painless experience and longevity, consider IPL.

IPl hair devices like Ulike Air 10 are usually a great choice of hair removal considering you only have to invest a little of your time and money at the start. When the hair growth reduces significantly, both your time and money eventually ends up being saved in a longer run.