Some estimates put the number at around 50 million for women in the USA concerned about facial hair removal. Unwanted facial hair around the lips or under the chin is perceived by many to be undesirable and for a woman, it can affect her self-confidence and feelings of femininity.

As a result, waxing kits, sugaring pastes, tweezers, and threading procedures are in great demand. Many women choose to use wax or sugaring paste or tweezers themselves at home. These methods are inexpensive although they need repeating every few weeks depending on the rate of hair growth.

What if there was a way though to make home facial hair removal sessions easier. Specifically, what if the hair didn't grow back so fast, and when it did it, what if it was finer and much easier to pluck or remove with wax or sugaring paste?

For many years various personal care and pharmaceutical companies did research on this problem. In the year 2000 an announcement was made that a cream was now available, especially for facial hair removal for women, which would slow down hair growth so facial hair removal sessions would not be so frequent.

A Prescription Cream To Complement Facial Hair Removal Methods

Bristol-Myer Squibb along with The Gillette Company succeeded in getting FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approval for a prescription cream which, when applied regularly to the skin, inhibits hair growth. They called it Vaniqa.

Clinical trials and tests showed it had some effect on around 58% of the women who tried it. Side effects are minimal, just skin irritation or redness in a small number of cases. Results are seen after a couple of months.

Some years before that, around 1993, a Toronto based company called Nisim International, released a product to curb hair loss. It was featured in the Medical Post of 1993 and the clinical trial results listed there were quite impressive in stopping hair loss and generating new hair growth.

What's this got to do with facial hair removal? Well, in the process of developing a hair loss solution by treating the hair follicles, the Nisim laboratory stumbled on a way to get the hair follicles to stop producing hair using natural enzymes.

A Non-Prescription Lotion For Facial Hair Removal Sessions

Four years later, they released Kalo, a hair growth inhibitor based on natural ingredients. You don't need a prescription to obtain it. It is for men and women and can be used on any part of the body, unlike Vaniqa which is only for women and usage is restricted to the facial areas. Additionally, the makers of Kalo offer a money back guarantee.

So women who use waxes, hard, soft, hot or cold, sugaring pastes or strips, tweezers, or who go to a beauty salon for the increasingly popular threading procedure, can now make facial hair removal a lot easier.

Hair growth inhibitors such as Vaniqa and Kalo interrupt the normal mechanism for hair growth so repeated use results in a reduction in hair growth and a change in hair texture, making it easier to remove. This means facial hair removal sessions become much more infrequent.

Considering the high costs of electrolysis and laser hair removal, this option might well be worth investigating further. The resource box below provides additional links for research.