Sugaring Victim & Solid Routine

Guest contribution by my sister, who experimented with sugaring and sent pictures and descriptions of the process and results.


This is the goop, cooling in a pot.


This is the goop, looking goopy on my sister's hand.


She applied it to her leg using her fingers, which she does not recommend. Instead, use a tongue depressor to apply the goo against the grain.


Initially, she used a no-cloth method where you just pull the crap off your legs, but resorted to cloth after disastrous results (which are pictured below).


As you can see, the right leg looks like it's been a victim of domestic abuse. Pulling the goo off by hand was apparently difficult and bruised like crazy. On the left leg, using cloth to remove the goo and hair (against the grain) was easier and had better results.

I'm looking forward to trying this. We're planning to make a party of it.


In my own progress, I think I've reached a point that requires less experimentation in terms of hair and face care. I'm down to weekly baking soda washes and apple cider vinegar rinses with daily or every-other-daily water only washes. (I say weekly, but it's just determined by when my hair gets unmanageable by non-washing means.) If the problem is just grease and I don't have time for a full-fledged shower, I put some corn starch in my hair, brush it in, remove as much as possible by shaking it out or rubbing it with a dry washcloth and then just rinse out the powdery remains in a quick head shower. When dandruff is particularly noticeable, I saturate my scalp with undiluted apple cider vinegar and let it sit for ten to twenty minutes before getting in the shower and doing the normal diluted baking soda and diluted apple cider vinegar routine. I also cut my hair really short, which makes the whole thing a lot easier.

Face care has been somewhat simplified. On a daily basis, I scrub and exfoliate with a baking soda paste and follow that with a shea butter face massage. When I have some free time, I do a honey mask after the baking soda scrub for twenty minutes, if possible, which helps with acne and such. I read that massaging pure shea butter into your skin can help to reduce pore definition, and I think it's working to some extent. I take a quarter-sized lump of shea butter, melt it down in my palms, rub it onto my face, and then massage it around in little circles. Usually, I do about two of these applications to get everything evenly moisturized. You'd think that putting oily buttery things on your face would make it more oily, but I'm starting to think that the opposite is true. Kind of like with hair sebum, face sebum won't overproduce unless it's being stripped away.

I also got unbelievably sunburnt this weekend and have been putting apple cider vinegar on it after reading that this helps. I'm convinced that apple cider vinegar can be used for every ailment.

Oil pulling might be doing something, but I'm really not sure. I'm continuing out of curiosity, but mostly because I have nothing else to do with this bottle of sesame oil.