Sugaring is an ancient Arabic form of hair removal, where a paste, made of sugar, lemon juice and water, is applied to the skin and flicked off. This effectively removes the hair from the root.

HISTORY

Sugaring began hundreds of years ago in the Arabic countries. Women at that time did not have the soaps and deodorants we have today, but they found that by removing their pubic and underarm hair they could stay fresher and cleaner. So they developed sugarpaste. Sugaring was so successful it became completely embedded in their culture, and still to this day in some Arabic countries as soon as girls reach puberty they are prepared for marriage by being sugared from head to toe. All their bodily hair is removed, apart from their eyebrows, eyelashes and the hair on their head! They are then regularly sugared, to maintain themselves hair free, until they reach the age of about 30, when they find they no longer grow any hair!

Sugaring was brought to this country in 1984 by a Tunisian lady who came to live here and was amazed to find that there was nobody available to sugar her. She started to train people in this ancient technique, and hence sugaring in the UK was born.

Why Choose Sugaring?

Sugaring is very gentle on the skin. This is because the sugarpaste will not stick to anything moist, and, therefore, will not stick to live skin cells, which makes it much less traumatic on the skin, and much less painful than waxing. It also means it is particularly good for facial skin, and older skin.

Sugaring is suitable for all skin types, even those suffering from eczema and psoriasis. In fact there is some medical evidence to show that it may improve these conditions by removing the top layer of dead skin and hence promote healing of the skin underneath.

The hairs grow back softer sparser and lighter in colour, and with continued treatments hair growth will eventually cease altogether. This is because each hair folicle is programed to produce a certain number of hairs in its life time. By removing the hair from the root, while it is still in its growing phase, you stimulate the folicle to start producing its next hair more quickly than it would have done had you waited for the hair to be shed naturally. The follicle then gets through its programmed number of hairs more quickly, after which it will cease to produce hair.