The topic included ‘UK’ in case anyone happens to be from the UK here and can recommend an electrolygist (PM me if you have any ideas, or if you would like to find one as I have been recommended a few by a very generous member here).
I am mentally preparing myself for electrolysis, first on the face. Time to put an end to hair worries. I have been reading about after-care on this forum and so, let us start out search with a few questions.
A girl has hair on her face. She decides to get electrolysis done. What must she do to her face before anything is done to her face (if anything)? She has heard that after treatment, she must rub three things on her face. Where can these things be brought from in the UK (links appreciated to show what it looks like, from UK stores)?
Starting off witht his for now, I’m sure more things will pop up along the way.
You don’t need to do anything before gettin electrolysis. Just make sure your hair is long enough to grasp with tweezers when you come in for treatment.
The only things you really need is witch hazel to apply a couple times a day, which you can get at any drug store. And the other thing that helps healing is tee trea oil which you can get at a drug store or a health food or drug store. You apply this at night only.
I would suggest looking at the website of the Institute and Association of Electrolysis UK. It will have members listed by area and enable you to find a specialist in your locality.
A little dab does a lot. You can use aloe vera gel right after you put on the tea tree oil if you want. You can use as much aloe vera gel as you want. Get the purest brand possible - cold-pressed is good.
I use tea tree oil only after the treatment (my electro does that for me) after that I use witch hazel. I used to only use tea tree oil but then switched.
I love this gel, whether I have a spot, minor burn or after electrolysis:
Is this okay to use whilst I’m getting acne treatment (i.e. tetracylin tablet and duac cream)? I’m thinking whilst I get electrolysis I’ll stop using duac. Any input would be nice.
Tea Tree Oil is find to use in addition to those drugs, of course, you may want to increase your water intake, increase your Vitamin B-6/Pyridoxine (20 to 40mgs) and Vitamin A (100,000 I.U’s per day)
It is always best if one can get one’s vitamins from food, however, most will need to resort to pills, since most people would not want to eat liver every day in the amounts necessary to get that amount of Vitamin A and Pyridoxine/Vitamin B-6 or even the amount of raw sunflower seeds to get that much Pyridoxine (it is in both liver and sunflower seeds). The good news is that once one has established a good baseline for the vitamins one can store (fat soluble) , one does not need to load up on them daily to keep healthy. The water soluble vitamins must be taken daily, and the amounts that your body needs tend to only go up as one ages, not down.
If the quality of our food was not going down, instead of up, there would be no need for vitamins, but as it is, a 2009 grocery store orange has one tenth of the nutrients of the oranges purchased from the general store back in 1909. We can’t eat ten times the oranges in order to chase the amounts of nutrition we need. So many people in western civilizations are simple mal-nurished not because they are not eating, but because the foods they are eating provide so little of what they ought to deliver.
If only we could all go back to growing our own… Oh, yeah, that may already be illegal where you live.
Vitamin A can be found in hard capsules, and in soft gels. Vitamin B-6/Pyridoxine is found in powder inside gelatin sleeves, chewable sublinguals, and in sublingual liquids.
Again, you can find these things in foods like Liver (or liver oil), Sunflower Seeds, and Brewer’s Yeast, but for theraputic doses, one usually needs supplements in order to concentrate such large doses in one small easy to ingest package.
