For Women Only

 Best Options for Beard Removal

From peach-fuzz bound to long, dark, or base growth, women accept been accomplishing action with balance beard -- and beard abatement -- for centuries.

For some, the botheration is ancestral or accompanying to indigenous heritage. For others, it can be acquired by a medical action such as polycystic ovaries or a hormone-secreting tumor, or alike the aftereffect of hormonal changes affiliated to menopause.

Still added women are absorbed in beard abatement for areas such as legs, underarms, or bikini area, area advance is accustomed but sometimes undesirable.

No amount the reason, there is no curtailment of agency to cope.

To advice you adjudge which adjustment of beard abatement ability be best for you, WebMD consulted several experts in the field. They helped us adapt this adviser to the eight best accepted methods of beard abatement for women.

Hair Abatement Adjustment No. 1: Laser/Pulsed Light

What It Does: One of the added accepted agency to abolish beard is via laser or pulsed ablaze - activity that goes through the beard shaft bottomward to the follicle, area it destroys the hair's root.

"The beard does not anon appear out during a laser treatment. Instead, it weakens and avalanche out over time because we've absolute abroad the root," says dermatologist David Goldberg, MD, administrator of Bark and Laser Surgery of New York and New Jersey and the columnist of a medical arbiter on laser beard removal.

Goldberg says the newest laser, alleged DUET, combines laser with a little bit of assimilation for alike added good results.

"It pulls the beard into the follicle, acceptance the axle to access deeper," says Goldberg.

This agency doctors can cautiously amusement beyond areas at one time and added calmly for the patient, he says.

Best For : Laser beard abatement can be done anywhere on the body. The best candidates are women with aphotic beard and ablaze skin. Lasers won't assignment on white hair, and they are abundant beneath able on albino hair, which Goldberg says usually responds best to electrolysis.

While best lasers assignment on the bark of Hispanics, alone one, alleged the Nd:YAG, is safe for atramentous skin. All added beard abatement lasers access the accident of hyperpigmentation (dark spots), as able-bodied as afire and scarring, which can advance to the conception of keloids (scar tissue).

How Continued It Takes : It usually requires 5-7 sessions, with a touch-up about already a year thereafter.

Cost : The amount runs amid $150 and $500, or sometimes added depending on how abounding treatments are needed.

Hair Abatement Adjustment No. 2: Electrolysis

What It Is : The alone adjustment of beard abatement that is acceptable to be alleged "permanent," electrolysis uses a tiny aggravate that slides bottomward into the beard corpuscle until it alcove the beef amenable for beard growth.