After Your Appoinment
Now you have smooth beautiful skin and you want to keep it that way. Home care is a must, and it is easy to follow. Schedule your next waxing appointment before you leave your current appointment. Keeping on a schedule will help you to maintain smooth skin and will greatly decrease the hair that grows back.
Avoid the sun the day of your waxing, and make sure you use sun block.
No swimming for 24 hours. This includes lakes, pools, oceans, baths, and hot tubs. No physical friction such as physical labor, working out, or sex for 24 hours. Ensure to wear clean clothes after your wax, and only touch the area with clean hands. Your follicles are open and prone to infection after a wax, and sweat and dirty hands are the main cause of infection. You can keep the area dry and further prevent infection after a wax by using baby powder or cornstarch and applying No Trauma Momma® daily on clean skin, which has tea tree oil in it and soothing ingredients to moisturize and protect the skin.
If you are prone to ingrown hairs or at the first hint of one, do not wait until they become an issue to address them! Apply Get the Bump Outta Here!® once a day to help clear infection and exfoliate the skin. Continue exfoliating daily with a shower mitt to rid yourself of the dead skin build up that will trap the hairs and cause ingrown hairs. If you get an infected ingrown hair, use a cotton swab to apply hydrogen peroxide to the area. This will kill the infection. Do not pick! Picking causes scars.
Avoid the sun the day of your waxing, and make sure you use sun block.
No swimming for 24 hours. This includes lakes, pools, oceans, baths, and hot tubs. No physical friction such as physical labor, working out, or sex for 24 hours. Ensure to wear clean clothes after your wax, and only touch the area with clean hands. Your follicles are open and prone to infection after a wax, and sweat and dirty hands are the main cause of infection. You can keep the area dry and further prevent infection after a wax by using baby powder or cornstarch and applying No Trauma Momma® daily on clean skin, which has tea tree oil in it and soothing ingredients to moisturize and protect the skin.
If you are prone to ingrown hairs or at the first hint of one, do not wait until they become an issue to address them! Apply Get the Bump Outta Here!® once a day to help clear infection and exfoliate the skin. Continue exfoliating daily with a shower mitt to rid yourself of the dead skin build up that will trap the hairs and cause ingrown hairs. If you get an infected ingrown hair, use a cotton swab to apply hydrogen peroxide to the area. This will kill the infection. Do not pick! Picking causes scars.
Why is exfoliation so important?
Exfoliation is the most important part of the process in preventing those unsightly ingrown hairs! You must exfoliate in the shower every day in order to allow the hair to break through the skin. Hold out your left hand, and with your fingers closed, gently and slowly push your right index finger between two fingers on your left hand. This represents your hair breaking through the skin. Now, imagine layers upon layers of dead skin resting on top of that skin. Shaved hair is strong and can break through that dead layer of skin. However, waxed hair has a fine tip, and the more you wax, the weaker that hair becomes. It simply cannot break through that dead skin. Exfoliation removes the dead skin build up we accumulate each day and allows that waxed hair to break through.
Exfoliate prior to waxing to remove the dead skin build up to achieve a better wax and to make sure the topical dead skin cells do not enter the open follicle after waxing. Use a mitt in the shower; a flat surface works best to make sure you get every inch of skin. I also recommend Scrub me ‘Luscious®, which is a full body microdermabrasion scrub, which gently removes the dead skin and is in a water base, which will not interfere with waxing. I suggest you use Scrub me Luscious® twice a week in addition to using the shower mitt and Get the Bump Outta Here!®, which contains salicylic, lactic, and glycolic acids. The alcohol in the base dries out the infection and the acids give a gentle but effective mini flash peel. Get the Bump Outta Here!® is safe to use morning and night if needed. The key to no ingrown hair is constant, mild exfoliation.
Exfoliate prior to waxing to remove the dead skin build up to achieve a better wax and to make sure the topical dead skin cells do not enter the open follicle after waxing. Use a mitt in the shower; a flat surface works best to make sure you get every inch of skin. I also recommend Scrub me ‘Luscious®, which is a full body microdermabrasion scrub, which gently removes the dead skin and is in a water base, which will not interfere with waxing. I suggest you use Scrub me Luscious® twice a week in addition to using the shower mitt and Get the Bump Outta Here!®, which contains salicylic, lactic, and glycolic acids. The alcohol in the base dries out the infection and the acids give a gentle but effective mini flash peel. Get the Bump Outta Here!® is safe to use morning and night if needed. The key to no ingrown hair is constant, mild exfoliation.