From everyone’s experiences, what’s have you guys found to be the best way to prevent or treat redness and bumps after electrolysis treatments?
When I would get threaded or waxed (in my pre-electrolysis days) I would used a little sea breeze astringent right after and I would be perfectly fine. No bumps, no breakouts. But with electrolysis, my normal routine does not seem to work. From things I have read the bets method is to …
avoid astringents and alcohol based products
try to use aloe vera get (no menthol, no lotion)
witch hazel
and a product called “simply smooth”
does anyone have any experience with any of these products? Any success?
I find it difficult to tell how well any product is working, but the thing that has made the most difference for me is staying well-hydrated. I usually drink lots of water, but a few weeks ago I had an electrology session after a night of mild drinking. I didn’t drink very much water before my appointment and not only did it hurt a lot more, I got terrible scabs afterwards. The scabs lasted longer than those I got from a treatment a week later. For me, drinking lots of water has way more impact than any product.
It is just a fact. The average American is suffering from the effects of chronic dehydration, and that is more than just water, but electrolytes as well.
Let’s see, we don’t eat as much fruits and vegetables as we should, don’t get the 20 grams of fiber we need, and we don’t drink any water, opting instead for diruetics like coffee and soda pop instead.
As you balance your electrolytes with fruits like oranges and bananas and make drinking a daily total of a gallon of water for every 100 pounds you weigh a part of your life every day you will feel much better and look better too.
I have a kid who went to college this year and thus is free from my “nutritional tyranny” and suddenly, she now has acne and IBS. Gee, I wonder what changed in her life to make those things happen? Could it be Mountain Dew by Pepsico instead of water? Could it be foods without the needed fiber count? Could it be processed carbs instead of organic well balanced home cooking? The World May Never Know. :whistle:
I wish to express how important hydration really is. A friend of mine which I have known for some time, which has had many bad experiences with other forms of hair removal, and had very dry skin. It was virtually impossible to find any setting on my Apilus that was not very painful for her. Her skin reacted horrible at the start with some bumps lasting a week or more. Trying to use Cataphoresis was really something. She could hardly feel a thing. With the current turned to 2ma, she would not even feel anything.
Things in just the last few weeks have finally changed. She started using a good moisturizer among other things, and now things are so much better.
Now I need to turn the currents down to about 0.5 ma and even was noticing the metal feeling in her mouth for the first time. I can now turn the currents up, and set the timing faster without causing adverse skin reactions. Her long deep hairs are now much more shallow and far easier to treat. When I first started, the hair bulbs were deaper than my longest probes could even reach.
I am wondering if it was likely diet or previous laser treatments that might have caused her skin to become so dry. It took a while to get her skin to hydrate, but now she notices how much smoother and softer her skin feels.
Finally, electrolysis is so much easier for her as well. She thinks that I have gotten so much better at electrolysis since we atarted, but I believe that most of it has to do with her skin condition.
Please everyone considering Hair Removal, make certain that you try your best to hydrate your skin.
I have never found anything, ever, to prevent redness and bumps. If you are talking about ingrowns, I don’t think it’s possible to cure ingrowns. It is just the way your hair grows. Tend Skin can make it clear up a little faster though. But not enough really to warrant the money
The only way to “cure” ingrown hairs is permanent removal of the offending hairs via electrolysis. That would also be hair specific to only the ingrowing hairs.