Electrolysis Treatment and Procedures Continued
Potential Risks
While electrolysis will remove hair from unwanted areas, there are some potential drawbacks or risks that should be considered. For one, electrolysis is not cheap. Even for very small areas, costs can sometimes be over $2,000 and as much as $20,000. The reason for the high cost is because the process itself is extremely time-consuming and tedious. There will be many trips to your specialist, and each hair removal takes time. This can sometimes prove difficult for the average person, especially if large amounts of hair need to be removed.
Each of these trips is also going to involve a little pain or discomfort. Over time, electrolysis has been shown to affect different people in different ways; it depends on your levels of pain tolerance. Electrolysis will be at least slightly painful and/or uncomfortable.
One of the other major problems with electrolysis is that regulations regarding its practice are variable among states. Over time, this has led to some incompetent practitioners being allowed to operate. If the procedure is performed incorrectly, all sorts of problems can occur, from long term skin damage, to the re-growth or partial re-growth of removed hair.
One of the best policies to adopt prior to selecting an electrolysis practitioner is that you have a talk with someone who's had the procedure done by this individual. Word of mouth with electrolysis goes a long way. Verifying a practitioner's success rate prior to the procedure is critical.
Types of Electrolysis
There are three types of electrolysis used and each offers different benefits and disadvantages.
The first method is “Thermolysis.” Advantage: it treats more hairs per session. Disadvantage: it is not as efficient at killing all hairs.
Galvanic electrolysis, on the other hand, offers the complete opposite treatment: it is effective at killing hairs with one treatment, but fewer hairs are removed during each session.
The third and final type of electrolysis is called “The Blend.” It combines methods from the other two types and attempts to provide the benefits of both.
By Jamie Ward
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