Pour the sugar, water and lemon juice all together in a saucepan, and heat
it over a low flame. Keep stirring the mixture to avoid burning. Stir it until
all the sugar has melted, and you have a thick brown liquid. Let it cool slightly
before using it. It can be stored in a heat proof container for later use.
Store it in fridge. It can be easily warmed up in the microwave.
It a natural home made wax that can be used for waxing for arms, legs, underarms,
upper lips and eyebrows.
Homemade wax WORKS only if you know HOW to wax. posted by: ellen o. on:Mar 15, 06 11:31 pm
Basically, I've been self-waxing for over 15 years. The first few times, I did it professionally, and because I watched, I learned a lot in terms of technique; then again, I'm a visual learner.
You've gotta understand a little bit about good wax consistency and proper techniques to avoid ending up yanking skin. Be careful with letting the wax get too thick on your muslim/cotton strip, and consider doing super-small patches on sensitive and less taut areas such as your knees. USE VERY QUICK MOTIONS, otherwise, you may as well put superglue on and try to peel that off without crying in severe pain!
I've used a myriad of different types of home waxes, some of the "simple" type, others of the "professional" style. I often found the simpler versions to be pretty reliable and easy to use, although I'd often have to wax twice over some areas. But these are great because they're relatively kind to your skin and easy to wash off. "Professional" styles were a lot more aggressive, and hence, they did the job the first time around; however, if you made any little error on technique, OW. They were SUPER-sticky and stuck to anything and everything, and were extremely difficult to remove from your own skin without special products. Even then, the products just barely helped. The professional products turned out to be more damaging to my skin. Unless you have a full set-up, professional waxes can become a painful ordeal, especially if you're one to do bikini waxes, like me.
All in all, I've always gone back to using a product called "Persian Cold Wax," my old reliable. (To see a pic of the product, check out- http://www.iranstore.com/product.asp?3=1310). It's one of the most natural products available (yeah!) and a relatively inexpensive product, but I wasn't totally satisfied because it would sometimes annoy me to have to go over a certain area again or use tweezers to catch strays.
I finally searched out a homemade wax, knowing that people in other countries have been "sugaring" for ages, and used this: http://www.spaindex.com/HomeSpa/Sugaring.htm. I wanted something natural, dirt cheap, and easy, and this sugaring recipe fit the bill. The important thing was to be sure to use cornstarch (or in my case, I only had powdered sugar, which contains cornstarch!) to rub onto the area to be waxed, as it serves as a great skin barrier, still allowing the hairs to be grasped by the sugaring.
The lemon in the recipes serves as a sort of antiseptic (I can't really remember). If you use sugar without honey, make sure you cook it until it caramelizes, and it should therefore have become thick enough to use properly. I went for the recipe with honey because of honey's natural moisturizing properties, and yum, my legs were soooo smooth afterwards, without the typical redness that other waxes yield.
All in all, get your waxes done professionally at first, to learn the ropes, then experiment carefully. Pretty soon, it becomes super easy, your hair follicles get used to it and hair comes out with barely a pull, and returning growth has fewer blunt cut ends and seems like less and less each time. I'll always choose waxing over shaving for my legs and bikini areas. Underarms, well, even the tiniest of stubble is obvious and ugly, so I shave 'em- easy enough for such a small area!
This wax is good for facial wax posted by: salty on:May 25, 09 7:49 am
i have been making and using this wax ball since last 7 years, this is the only safest wax for facial hair and works well, the mistake is leaving it in heat for a longtime and yeah the right viscosity shud be attained first. If you dont then it really becomes messy, now i know how to make it so i even have waxed my hands with it and the result was smoothese, once i waxed my tummy hair and the chest etc it was very nice and no bumps appeared after that
You have to know how to use sugar wax to begin with, and what it looks like, and so on. If you don't know how, get a small box of cheap Sally Hansen's sugar wax, it's at any walmart. And it will show you how the consistency should be. It will also tell you same as this article, you MUST spread it on THINLY. You put on too much, it will not work. That is not any fault of the sugar itself, however. Know that. If you think this sucks, you're just doing it wrong. Nothing more.
