Spa Wax

This wax is good, it worked well for the underarm area, lower legs and upper lip for me. I, however, found it too strong for the other areas of the body and instead ordered the 'all natural water soluble' kind by the same company. It's also more of a hassle as this in not water soluble and as much as you try it always gets stuck to other items in the process of waxing. Overall, I'm just happy that I can take care of personal grooming myself and not have to visit a beauty salon for these things. It's easy to do on your own, quite painless, and the user manual is also very detailed. The quality of the strips and wax itself is very good. I'm very happy with the product, would just be careful of the kind you order - different type for different hair types. I found this is better for long, coarse hairs.---Now a brief history of the hair removal methods I've used and why I think waxing is the best.In the process of finding ways to remove hair from my skin, I briefly tried epilation. It didn't work for me. The machine is way too harsh and hurts the skin when pulling the hair out of it. It's also not pleasant as all the moving parts kind of scratch the skin while using it. It's kind of like plucking each and every hair slowly from the root. The most painful way of going about removing hair, I think.My next method to remove skin from my hair was shaving, which a lot of people do here in the US but didn't work for me. My hair would grow up thick and coarse and ver quickly. It's of course cheap and quick, but the results you get are also not long lasting and not nice to feel.I finally went back to waxing, which is what I did in my home country where salons do it cheaply. I found it expensive to continue doing it here and also much more of a hassle to go to salons. Now I have found a way to continue to get that smooth silky feeling of after waxing, with no pain, and good long - lasting results, at the same time being easy on the pocket. Previously there were the pre-applied wax on strips that you could heat with your hands and apply to the skin but never removed the hair for me well, and I never ended up using them. I briefly even tried those creams which would remove hair, but I think they are harmful to the skin, and something I would never go back to. It basically makes the hair weak enough so that the hair would fall off, which is never a good way to go about it. Waxing removes hair from the root, which is why it lasts much longer than any other method that removes hair only from the skin.So, I'm really happy to say that this method specifically is the absolute best way to remove one's hair, atleast for me.

Been buying and using this for a while now, but never left a review since I hardly ever do. Having said that, this is some great stuff. It gets out all types of hair, coarse or fine.Here are some tips for newer users I've learned after some time with the product (possibly in the manual also, but I 'aint got time for that):- If the hair is an inch or longer, shave first, then allow to grow back between one quarter to a half inch. This should reduce hair clumping together when being pulled putting less stress on the skin (kind of like tweezing a bunch of hair at once versus pulling one at a time).- While the wax will still work, it's best to wash the the skin first from oils or moisture from lotions and also allow dry skin to be supple enough to work with.- It may take a few tries, but finding the right temperature to heat the wax can increase ease of use greatly. If it's too hot, the wax will be ,well, hot when applied, and could burn or irritate the skin. Also it can and will run every where, being too loose and thin to control. If it's not hot enough, it'll be too tough to work with causing a lot of resistance and stress on the skin when being applied.- While the wax won't break down in water, bath or baby oil will, so have some on hand for clean up.*Here's a nifty trick I discovered to reduce the mess by an insane amount. Once you dip the spatula in the wax and pull it back out, rotate the spatula several times to allow the running wax to wrap itself around and eventually cut off. This is heavily dependent on how hot you like to heat the wax, however (too hot, thin, and it doesn't work as well).

I did a lot of research before purchasing my first home waxing kit as my husband wanted to wax his back for the first time. I infrequently go to the salon to have my legs waxed and don't mind the pain, so I wanted to try on my legs too. We thought this would be a good idea to try out at home to save some $$.I got the wax all set up, prepped my husband, put on the Tibetan Healing music station on Pandora, and applied the wax to a 2"x2" portion of his back hair. After the first patch was removed, he stood up, said no thank you, and that was the end of that. It removed the hair really well and worked as it should.Since the wax was heated up, I moved on to my legs. It was easy enough to use and worked well. It left my extremely sensitive skin with red bumps, but those went away soon after. I started work on my right leg below my knee - it was an extremely tedious task. I can't even tell you how long it took just to do the smallest part of my leg.In the end, I had easily used up all of the strips (most other reviewers had mentioned this too) even though I cut them all up. I got probably 3/4 of both my legs below my knees, with patchy areas where I didn't line the areas up correctly.Trust me - leave it to the pros. To spend $20ish bucks on this package plus go through the time waste and mess PLUS not have an even professional job done, it's not worth it in my opinion.