i tried this persian wax/sugaring recipe i found online today and wanted to share it with everybody as it is so simple to make.
basically it is
2 c. sugar
1/4 c. lemon juice
1/4 cup water
boil on stove until amber colored, let cool and harden just a little. Consistency shouldn't be brittle or too runny. It works best if hair is at least 1/4" long, and skin is freshly washed/exfoliated and dried (can use baby powder to help).
Once it's cooled a little you can use a plastic butter knife to spread it on your skin and cotton or muslin strips to peel it off. When the mixture hardens too much to use, simply microwave/reheat it and continue. When you're done you can store the unused portion for future use. I figure it's a great recipe because it's stuff most of us have around the house normally and it's fairly simple to follow. It's supposed to be less painful than traditional waxing although i couldn't tell you for sure as i've always been to chicken to wax until now.
Notes on what i did... i used half the amount of sugar (we ran out... drat!) and although it wasn't very think after i let it cool on the butter knife a little i could spread it on, press the strip down on the hair, wait a sec for to harden and then pull it off. i just cut up and old stained skirt and used that as my strips.
Here's a link to the site that i found it on...
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=84233.0
hope this helps somebody. i think it's a great alternative for those that hate shaving and think regular waxing is too painful.
DIY waxing: persian waxing/sugaring recipe
February 13th, 2007 at 08:10 pm
February 2nd, 2008 at 06:38 pm
February 3rd, 2008 at 08:50 pm
May 3rd, 2008 at 06:14 am
About your waxing recipe it is probably the right one but I'll give an advice for the next time the same thing happens to you. Actually there are 2 advices lol.
First of all if the wax becomes solid you can reheat it just a little bit until it actually becomes flexible, not fluid but flexible..
Second thing once u heat it a bit try to take a portion using a spoon or what so ever and then stretch the wax between your fingers. Like hold the portion of wax and pull the sides away from each other, you could keep on doing that until you feel that it has become a bit hot, and the color changes normally from what can seem like very yellow to a whitish/ pale yellow...
And last thing you can directly do the stretching thing even if the wax is solid.. It really really works..
Good luck