Can I get a burn from a hair removal cream?
It can be easy to take hair removal creams for granted. You apply the cream, wait a few minutes, and then you just wipe away the hair, leaving the skin underneath smooth and soft. But it helps to know how these creams actually work. Hair removal creams, also know as depilatory creams, contain chemicals that dissolve hair just below the surface of your skin. These chemicals can irritate the skin, and although they remove hair easily, they can also cause some unwanted side effects. Hair removal creams were developed to keep areas like your legs and arms smooth and free of hair. Unfortunately, those aren’t the only parts of our bodies that develop unwanted hair. The chemicals in depilatory creams may not be suitable for thinner, more sensitive areas, like the skin around your eyebrows or your bikini line. Using them in any of these places could result in burns. To avoid this, you should use a cream specially formulated for more sensitive areas. In some cases this means getting three separ
