The very first person that started using professional electrolysis as a means of hair removal was Doctor Charles Michel (years of life-1833 to 1913), an opthalmologist from Missouri, the town of St. Louis, who in 1875 reported his results of electrolysis application in ingrown eyelashes (scientifically called trichiasis). The doctor had been using an electrolysis method since the year 1869.

Doctor W.A Hardaway, a dermatologist from Missouri, the town of St. Louis, praised the results that Doctor Michel achieved. In his paper Doctor Hardaway explained his own results and the the results attained by other doctors, a proof that other physicians were also performing professional electrolysis.

Electrolysis usage became renowned at the very end of the nineteenth century (1880 - 1900). At that time Dan Mahler established electrolysis practices and, consequently, a special firm for selling electrolysis equipment. The business of the family still exists these days as the well-known Instantron Company that has been functioning constantly for over a century. And it is now one of the largest suppliers of the electrolysis equipment in the world.

Paul Kree from New York developed a multiple-needle system for galvanic electrolysis, which happened in 1916. He was helpful in the improved marketing of electrolysis service to the society. The method of electrolysis was employed enthusiastically from medical professionals to lay electrologists. Kree Company has been dominating the presentation and education of electrolysis in North America until the late1970s. Doctor Henri Bordier from France, the city of Lyon, developed a new method of thermolysis in 1924 (also known as diathermy, short wave, high-frequency and so on).

Different medical literature of this period indicates that this new method ame into being as far back as the year of 1910 in Germany and was invented by Doctor Eitner. Doctor Rostenberg appeared in thermolysis into the Northern American journals about medicine in the year 1925. Doctor Mildred Trotter put in publishing her classical article which proved that shaving didn't affect hair growth. This happened in 1928. The new equipment for electrolysis removed the basic spark-gap diathermy electrolysis machines that provided very unpredictable performance. Thermolysis turned out to be more widespread later with the use of a basic and more consistently dependable vacuum tube equipment.

Works of Hinkel and St. Pierre were brilliant both conceptually and technically. And they also became of a tremendous help to a better scientific acception of electrolysis. Equipment for electrolysis became much more trustworthy and easy to use with the development of transistorized gear during 1960s and 1970s. In November 1979 the Copperwaites from Toronto established the International Hair Route, which was a publication that continues to be printed widely and is still of a great interest to all electrolisys specialists.

Electrolysis equipment that started using computers became much smaller, a lot more reliable, and easy to use in the 1980s. Mark Van Orden from the Fischer Company managed to include formula of Hinkel into a programmable computerized epilator. The threat of viruses of AIDS stimulated the development of pre-sterilized and disposable needles. In the early 1980s, Doctors Toshio Kobayashi and Shiro Yamada explained their method of high-powered thermolysis that is performed with the use of an insulated needle. As we are getting further into the twenty-first century the standardized training and state-of-the-art equipment will for sure make electrolysis a lot more popular and more accessible for people around the world. This happened in the 1990s.

There are some kinds of professional electrolysis and professional electrolysis equipment: Electro-Blend Classic, Electro Blend UC-2, Electro Blend UC-3+, Microprocessor controlled Multi-Needle Galvanic Epilator, Compact Model 360 Galvanic Epilator, Nova2000 Multi-needle, Thermolysis Generator, Ultrablend, Apilus SX-500, Apilus Senior II, Apilus Junior Plus, Cleo, Epilatron, Guibor Microelectrolysis Unit 18, Model MC160, Ease-Multi-Mode Epilator, HR-5000 Electrosurgical device (Kobayashi-Yamada), Epitron Super, Epilot 80 S, LPS 33 Epilator, Auto-Blend Epilator.