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In her column for Noosa ladies, Kim Susskind explains sugar isn’t just for sweetening your tea. Kim owns and operates Ebony Beauty Noosa, specialising in sugaring.
LIKE it or not, modern fashion these days dictates less is more even when it comes to body hair. Unfortunately, up until now, the choices for hair removal have never been all that comfortable.
But an ancient beauty treatment is making a fast comeback and it uses an ingredient that is in plentiful supply right here in Queensland – sugar.
Sugaring is the new buzzword in hair removal. Sugaring results in 60 to 80 per cent hair reduction in as little as three to six months. Sugaring has been around for centuries, making its earliest appearance in the ancient civilisations of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece.
The benefits of sugaring over waxing are many. Sugaring has no resins. It is a paste made from sugar, lemon juice and water; it’s so natural, you could eat it. Sugar doesn’t stick to live skin cells, in fact it only removes dead skin, making hair removal with sugar even more beneficial.
As the hair is removed in the direction of growth, it is less painful and more effective than waxing, resulting in less broken and ingrown hairs. As the therapist only goes to the sugar pot once throughout the treatment, there is no chance of cross-contamination. It really is the most clean, safe and sweet form of epilation.
There’s also no long wait between treatments. Sugaring should be done every 10 days to two weeks. By removing the hair often in the beginning, you will see a fast reduction in hair growth due to the scarring of the follicle.
I threw out the dirty, old wax pot three years ago and have never looked back. Sugaring is not an easy hair removal technique to learn, it involves the therapist taking part in a two-day course before recalibrating the old habits of waxing, which can take months to perfect.
When we started sugaring, it was a very sticky situation. The first half leg wax I did took over an hour. Thankfully, three years on she is still my client. These days a Brazilian wax takes only 7-10 minutes and two half legs take only 20 minutes.
Once you have been sugared, you will never go back.
