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Laser hair removal techniques are now largely available at numerous clinics, salons and spas. However, there are a couple of things you should know, before scheduling your first treatment session.

• Start your treatment no earlier than fall. It’s true that modern technologies have produced laser hair removal machines that allow direct exposure to sunlight or tanning beds immediately after the intervention. However, not all salons carry such machines—it’s the snazzier, more expensive ones that do. If you don’t want to spend all spring and/or summer with your legs or arms fully covered, experts recommend that you start your sessions with the beginning of the cold season.
• Find a place and a beauty technician you can trust. While laser hair removal techniques are relatively safe these days, it’s always best to check and double check that your salon of choice is licensed to perform laser interventions and that your technician is properly trained and certified in this skill. Improperly conducted interventions can cause permanent scarring to your skin. Moreover, since you will need at least 6 sessions, one month apart, at an average duration of two hours (if you’re getting the full leg and bikini treatment), you’d better be comfortable with being nearly naked in front of the technician. Or, at least as comfortable as you can be.
  

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Disadvantages of conventional cosmetics
Increasingly, people react to the pollution in their environment with skin diseases and allergies. Just five to ten percent of the approximately 30 million allergy sufferers in Germany react excessively to certain additives and preservatives, both in their food and in their cosmetic products.

Over the years, numerous methods were developed that were aimed at making products more durable and less perishable. As part of this, countless synthetic additives, which were then admixed to the care products to preserve these longer. Meanwhile, many of these substances are suspected trigger allergies or even cancer can. These findings are based on long-term studies, only in the wake of the global disease spread and thus many people could be made. In spite of previous laboratory and animal experiments, it was not possible to study these long-term effects before the introduction of these substances. The result we see now: Excessive sensitivity of many people on certain products. Read the rest of this entry »