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What’s the Best Method for permanent removal of hair?

Of the large choice of hair removal procedures that are available to people these days, it is electrolysis and reduction of hair with laser that have become the most desirable. In this write-up we will look particularly at these two procedures and give you a detailed comparison of electrolysis vs laser treatment.

How Does it Work?
electrolysis is an invasive therapy involving the penetration of a needle directly into each hair root cell. The needle is then used to apply a current to your root cell. This creates pain and the risk of uncomfortable electric stimulus. Reduction of hair with laser, on the other hand, is a safe and non-invasive therapy incorporating the use of laser rays. As such, there is no physical hurt done to your skin at all. The lasers painlessly pass through your skin and target your hair root cells to disable them.

How Much Will it Cost?
The pricing offered by laser or electrolysis hair removal clinics is a multi-factored characteristic of both procedures depending upon:
- Price of each session
- Session length
- Number of sessions
- Area to be treated

The pricing of each session may be cheaper for electrolysis versus laser hair removal but electrolysis is a comparatively extensive process requiring longer session lengths and a larger number of sessions. This adds to the overall cost of the body area under treatment and so ends up costing you much more compared to reduction of hair with laser. Long term,,Overall the reduction of hair with laser makes more sense in the terms of value for money having lower overall costs and often a less rigid pricing structure.

Is it Safe?
After having electrolysis you have to care for your skin in a careful way. Research has shown that permanent skin injury can ensue if specific protection is not given to your skin. The other problem of being an invasive technique is the skin infections. There is a low incidence of %keyword5% side effects, and hardly any after treatment care is used. Scarring, darkening of skin or redness are transient effects which fade out in a given time.

How Many Treatments Will I Require?
The time used to complete the process of hair removal in electrolysis is much more lengthy, in order to obtain satisfactory results, as we’ve already covered. The biggest hurdle is in fact the extensive number of sessions used to have effective treatment. As an electrolysis expert says “Electrolysis demands a series of sessions over a length of time. It’s not just a few times and it’s over.” Reduction of hair with laser needs approximately 3 to 4 sessions for the effective treatment. So electrolysis is a comparatively lengthy and laborious process.

Are the Therapies Painful?
As reduction of hair with laser is a non-invasive technique, there is no directly painful stimulus. electrolysis being a skin penetrating technique initiates a painful stimulus with each hair that is treated due to the presence of nerve endings in the skin. Reduction of hair with laser can be painful either for people with very sensitive skin or if you are unlucky enough to get an untrained practitioner. However, any discomfort can be safely controlled with reduction of hair with laser pain control. With electrolysis on the other hand, pain is an unfortunate feature of the therapy.

Which Procedure is More Effective?
One major area of contrast is the question of efficiency. Electrolysis being an old technique has had much time to be studied in terms of efficiency. Electrolysis, even with 120 years of history, cannot guarantee permanent removal of hair. Reduction of hair with laser on the other hand has shown at least 30-40% permanent removal of hair of hairs after completing treatment. Another advantage of reduction of hair with laser is that it can be used efficiently for the treatment of large areas such as your chest, back and legs.

Final Words
In this article, the the available data shows you an analysis of electrolysis vs laser treatment but more extensive study and research is used to confirm the efficiency of one therapy over the other. As we have shown, there are lots of factors that must be assessed and considered to confirm whether one therapy is superior to the other.

Ingrid Preube

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