Clean & easy machine - using touch pad?

Hair Removal Methods Do-It-Yourself Electrolysis
#1

Hi, sorry if this has been covered before, I couldn’t find it using the search option:

I’ve just bought a clean & easy (pretty much identical to the one touch). I want to use it on my legs, where I have a big problem with ingrown hairs. I can see how modifying the unit would be useful, but it’s no good for me because using a foot pedal while removing hair from my legs would be fairly awkward. I was thinking instead of taping up the stylus metal pad with electrical tape and using my left hand to touch the touch pad on the unit, while using my right hand to guide the stylus in. Would this work? Sorry if it’s a dumb question but I’m new to this! Advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

#2

I didn’t know there were One Touch-like devices with a footswitch. But, you might be able to do parts of your legs with a footswitch (which I have done.) The top of the thighs could be done by sitting in a chair, using the opposite leg to press the switch; the hairs will be growing away from your body, inserting the needle towards your body. You might be also do the inner part of your legs below the knee, by putting one leg across your lap and using the other leg to press the switch; the hairs will be horizontal, which is easier. I can’t physically cross my legs (too short and too thick), but I would imagine that would work great also.

As I have now found, not only is the autosensor no-footswitch operation mode pro machines have great for professional electrologists, it REALLY comes in handy for doing those tricky parts of the legs on yourself. Just make sure you set your delay time to give you enough time to get a good insertion before the zap :slight_smile:

#3

^ Thanks! Actually, the One Touch doesn’t come with a foot switch but it can be easily modified to have one… I can see how your method would be workable, I just find it easiest to sit on the floor kinda on my side with my legs folded - the hairs I most want to treat are right at the bottom of my legs near the ankle, so this position makes it easier to get to them, but I think it’d make a foot switch difficult to operate. Has anyone tried taping over the touch band on the stylus pen with electric tape and using the other hand (which isn’t holding the pen) as a switch by dipping it in saline solution and touching the separate touch pad on the unit? Would that work? Please let me know! Thanks a lot everybody :slight_smile:

#4

Anything that would complete the circut would be possible to use as a “switch” in this case. We just advise that a person use something that allows them to contact and break contact independant of the treatment that is going on. When one is using the probe itself as a contact, one tends to insert the probe “hot”, that is while the current is on, and one can burn and scar the skin that way.

It is better to be able to get the insertion in correctly, and then at your descretion make contact to start treatment, and be able to spot the treatment easily with a moment’s notice without changing the position of the probe, or the part of the body that is being worked on.

#5

Thanks. That’s what I was hoping for - to be able to insert the probe and, once it’s safely in (using my right hand to hold the stylus pen), to moisten a finger on my free left hand with saline solution and touch the touch pad on the unit to start the treatment (the touch band on the pen will be taped up). I guess the only difficultly I can foresee here is that, since the touch pad is horizontal, is it possible that there would still be enough saline solution left on it to continue sending an electrical current even after I take my finger off it? Sorry if it’s a really obvious question, I’m just not much of an electronics whiz, in case you haven’t guessed… really appreciate your help :cool: