Laser’s Advantages over Electrolysis for Permanent Hair Reduction

Electrolysis Vs. Laser Hair Removal

Although most experts now consider electrolysis to be relic from the early years of permanent hair reduction technology, electrolysis has nevertheless managed to persist in the public’s imagination as a reasonable alternative to laser hair removal. The fact is, however, that laser hair removal has far surpassed electrolysis both in terms of the ease of the procedure and the attractiveness of its results.

The research in permanent hair removal is now focused almost exclusively on lasers. Experts no longer consider electrolysis worth the research and development effort because the procedure is based around principals that are too fundamentally invasive and brutal. While laser hair removal provides a focused and minimally invasive way to “turn off” the hair follicle’s growth impulse, electrolysis takes the far more radical and damaging step of attempting to destroy the follicle entirely. This maximizes the risk to the skin that surrounds the hair and also causes the electrolysis patient a great deal of pain. Obviously, research into hair removal will focus on the technology that has the real potential. This means that while newer and more effective laser innovations are constantly coming to the fore, electrolysis technology remains stuck in the past.

Indeed, any advantages electrolysis may once have been able to claim have now been erased by recent technological advances in laser hair removal technology. Years ago, proponents of electrolysis might have claimed that their procedure was more effective for people with darker complexions. Today, however, lasers have been developed that are especially designed to handle dark skin, meaning people of every complexion can now enjoy the many advantages of laser hair removal.

And the advantages of laser hair removal are numerous indeed. The results are consistently far superior to any you would hope to achieve through electrolysis. Because a laser hair removal procedure takes advantage of the precision that only a laser can provide, it can zero in on only the key areas of the hair follicle. This means that hair growth is stopped without the skin surrounding the follicle suffering any painful or unsightly side effects. This is not the case with electrolysis. Electrolysis is known to be excruciatingly painful. It will often also leave you with blemishes on your skin that are far more unsightly than any unwanted body hair was in the first place.

Ultimately, both treatments will reduce hair growth to roughly the same extent and with costs that are comparable. However, electrolysis has all the drawbacks. In fact, one of the key reasons people find laser hair removal so remarkable is because it doesn’t carry any of the negative side effects that people remember from the old days of electrolysis. Electrolysis actually goes all the way back to the 19th century, and some of the harsh side effects of electrolysis do indeed seem positively Dickensian. Laser hair removal is by any standard the modern, safe, reliable, 21st-century solution for unwanted hair growth.