Sugar-based hair removal gel

Make your own sugar-based hair removal "wax"

BellaSugar has a recipe for homemade sugar-based hair removal gel. It’s pretty simple to make, inexpensive, and you may already have most of the ingredients on hand. And it should work well.

If that’s too much trouble, you can always use Nads.It’s a store-bought sugar based product that requires no heating (your body temperature heats it up), is easy to use and works much better than wax strips. The instructions on Nads list a bunch of complicated instructions for some reason, but I saw the creator on an infomercial years ago, and what she said then still works:

Make sure your skin is clean or oil and dry
Apply the gel with the plastic stick thingie – try to put it on in the direction the hair lays, but if you have hair growing in several directions on a small patch, don’t worry about that
Put the strip on the gel. Rub back and forth over the strip a few times to get the gel heated, then immediately…
Pull the strip quickly, in the direction opposite of how the hair lays, if possible. But the beauty of Nads is that on your arms, for example, where hair can grow in several directions, it doesn’t really matter if you pull in the right direction or not because Nads is just that tough, even on stubborn, coarse hair.

Whether you buy it or make your own, it’s a safer, more effective, less toxic, more “green” alternative to wax strips and depilatories.

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