Transdermal Hair Removal Claims to be the Number One Method of Removing Hair

Added: 12/06/2005

Transdermal hair removal. It's not a pretty job, but someone has to do it. The transdermal hair removal device is widely promoted for various beauticians at different trade magazines and shows as a highly effective method for hair removal. But these transdermal hair removal claims are considered to be false and the method is considered as an ineffective treatment. Still many practitioners really believe that the device works and thus they take money from clients for inefficient "professional" treatment. The method has some other names, like transdermolysis, non-invasive electrolysis and no-needle electrolysis.

The transdermal hair remover was organized as another model of the technology used for galvanic tweezers. But the difference is that it uses both an electrode gel and a cotton swab which are taken as a copy from the industry of non-surgical facial toning activity.

The procedure relies on the following steps: First, the area is cleansed. Then an electrode gel is attached to the hair. After that the swab which is applied to the negative electrode of the device, works the DC current into the area. The patient is attached in his turn to the positive outlet in order to make the circuit complete. Otherwise the electrons would not flow.

The output of the device may range up to 3000 microamperes. The current of such level is enough to make facial muscles start twitching in response while the treatment is performed. It is also reported that scabs and blisters are conditions which can be caused by high current outputs. When the current is employed to the skin, it follows through the surface of the skin but not through the follicle of the hair. It causes some redness on the place during the treatment and blisters after it. Such side effects are long to disappear.

The technique when the electrical energy is applied to the skin is similar to the technique of galvanic and other biomedical tests like EKG, EEG, chiropractic and therapeutic treatments. But it is worthy of note that none of the treatments which uses electrodes or patches attached to the skin has ever resulted in permanent hair removal.

The first electric tweezer was modified in the early 1990`s. It was referred to as "transdermal" electrolysis. The newly modified devices were sold as an optional treatment for the electric tweezer device.

Currently, transdermal hair removal claims are as follows: the method is permanent and absolutely painless. However, FDA has not approved the transdermal hair removal claims and considers to be an ineffective treatment.

It was in 2001 that FDA told the main manufacturer of this device that the transdermal hair removal claims about the electrolysis were false, the method represented ineffective treatment and their activity was illegal. It was the second warning on the matter.

FDA does not allow labeling the cotton swab technique as permanent until legitimate clinical quantification of the technique results has been successfully completed.

Still there are no facts proving the permanent result of transdermal hair removal method.

The transdermal hair removal claims offered by promoters contradict to the laws of nature. A hair is not a very good electrical conductor while skin together with conductive gel are better ones. The electricity chooses the way with the least resistance. That is why the energy produced by the device does not follow precisely down the hair. It is going to spread about the gel on the surface of the skin.

It is not surprising that these permanent methods are proven wrong. The energy required for destroying the follicle of the hair contacts with a great number of nerves that are situated near each hair. Though plucking hurts it is considered to be only a temporary method. You're better off paying a skilled professional.

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