Waxing Guide: Homemade Wax Recipes & Skin Aftercare

Waxing at home with sugar or honey is an effective way to remove hair from the face and bikini area. Understanding how to get wax off skin and caring for just-waxed skin is essential to prevent breakouts and red bumps.

How to Remove Hair With Homemade Cold Wax

Published Jul,18 2017 | By Jenni Wiltz

Before you schedule your next upper-lip, bikini or leg waxing appointment, you can remove your hair at home with a do-it-yourself treatment. In fact, when using a cold wax, you are removing hair directly from the root, instead of snipping it off at the surface with a razor or depilatory.

Jenni Wiltz's fiction has been published in "The Portland Review," "Sacramento News & Review" and "The Copperfield Review." She has a bachelor's degree in English and history from the University of California, Davis and is working on a master's degree in English at Sacramento State. She has worked as a grant coordinator, senior editor and advertising copywriter and has been a professional writer since 2003.