In Search of the Perfect Body Hair Remover

Long, long ago and far away, a caveman had the bright idea of taking two sea shells held together to pluck the hairs from his face. Such was born the first body hair remover.

To Egyptian males, a clean face was a status symbol. Both male and female Egyptians preferred a smooth pubic region and often plucked their pubic hair to give it an appealing shape.

It's known that Julius Caesar had his facial hairs plucked.

From the mid Fifteenth Century through Elizabethan times, women plucked their front hairs to have a high forehead.

In the 1700's, Native Americans used two clam shells held together as their body hair remover.

Electronic tweezers were developed as a body hair remover during the late 1950's.

Tweezing is a method still used today mostly by females for their eyebrows, although there have been reports that some people still use tweezers as a body hair remover in their pubic area.

There's evidence that cavemen also used a sharpened rock or flint blade as a body hair remover.

Because of the extreme heat, both Egyptian men and women shaved their heads. Razors of sharpened bronze have been found in tombs dating back 3,000 years ago.

Greek, Roman and Asian women used this body hair remover on their pubic region. Even in India, chest and pubic hair was shaved.

Ancient Chinese, Greek and Roman erotic art from thousands of years ago is proof that some form of body hair remover was being used in the pubic area by both males and females.

In 1762, a French barber designed the first safety razor as a body hair remover.

There was a real body hair remover revolution when a razor with disposable blades was created in 1903.

A wet razor continues to be the most used body hair remover today.

An alternative body hair remover we now know as a depilatory, (from the Latin, "completely deprive of hair"), sugaring, was also used thousands of years ago.

In Europe during the early eighteenth century, homemade depilatories as a body hair remover included applying a paste made of "quick lime", a caustic substance from limestone or shells that develops active, burning properties when mixed with water, and basically, burns the hair off.

North American women in the 1700's used poultices of caustic lye to burn away hair as a body hair remover.

Powdered depilatories as a body hair remover were marketed in the United States by 1844.

Wartime shortages of stockings meant legs went bare. The result was the first modern body hair remover depilatory in 1940.

The depilatory body hair remover is still used for certain parts of the body today.

Derived from the ancient process of sugaring, the wax strip body hair remover appeared in the late 1960's.

Another variation of the form of the body hair remover sugaring, warm/hot wax arrived in the 1980's from Australia.

As a body hair remover, waxing remains a mainstay.

In the late 1800s, physicians developed a body hair remover which involved inserting and twisting a barbed needle with sulfuric acid into the hair follicle. The precursor of our modern day electrolysis.

And nowadays, we even have the body hair remover method of laser treatments, which are quite controversial at best.

Still - There seems to be an easy, painless, inexpensive and sure-fire method, according to Mr. Jeremiah Deets of Buffalo, New York. He says he's found the ultimate body hair remover that he's been searching the longest time for. Maybe you have too?

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