I’m a male and recently have been using a One touch to treat some hairs on my chest and stomach. I’m only treating the areas where when I shave that it causes great discomfort because I can shave it everywhere except the middle of the chest and right underneath the belly button …those are the spots that always break out in shaving bumps. So I’ve been treating these areas with a One touch and I noticed that there seems to be TWO hairs growing out of the same follicle…is there 2 different follicles that need to be treated? Do I need to approach these follicles with 2 hairs differently?
Since you are using a one touch, you probably have enough spill over treatment that you should be able to treat one hair, and get the one next to it to come out anyway.
If you don’t find that the second one comes out with no problem and with a full sheath around it, then you may have to treat each hair individually. In that case, I would caution that you may want to treat those on separate days. As you are doing this at home with a one touch, we don’t want you to over treat yourself.
Coolness11;
The one touch is galvanic electrolysis. Galvanic works by Chemical Decomposition. Namely, moisture is converted in Lye by electricity. If one follicle contains multiple hairs, and I have seen follicles with five hairs in them at one time. Lye will form around all the hairs and will work on all of them at the same time. What James seems to be referring to is hairs that are very close to each other, but not in the same follicle. It is possible for follicles close to each other to create enough lye in follicles that are just close to where the probe was inserted as well. Example, one might see three hairs close to each other in a row. By inserting in just the two follicles at each end, more than likely the middle one will come out on its own, as enough lye was produced while the others nearby were making lye. But as far as hairs in the same follicle, lye is going to get to all the hairs as long as they are in the anagen stage. Anagen is the active growing stage, and in order for galvanic to work, the hairs must be in this stage of hair growth.