Plucking or tweezing is probably the first thing we think of when we want to remove a hair. Women prefer tweezing on facial areas because they believe it is more feminine than shaving. They erroneously feel it is the safest method to remove hair. Actually, plucking or tweezing is one of the least desirable ways to remove hair. Used repeatedly, tweezing can eventually cause a dermal inflammatory reaction and/or infection.

Tweezing does in fact increase the coarseness of the hairs and can distort the hair follicle. Eventually scars and ingrown hairs may occur from these distorted follicles which make subsequent permanent hair removal technically more difficult.

Each time a hair is forcefully torn from the dermal papilla, the resulting injury causes an increased blood supply to feed the germinative cells in the follicle and papilla. For self protection, it follows they will now rebuild a deeper, stronger, darker hair to replace the one tweezed out.

Electronic Tweezers
Electronic tweezers have been investigated by the Medical Device Division of the Food and Drug Administration:
"FDA takes the position that there is no evidence to support the claim that high frequency tweezers provide a permanent result. FDA believes that high frequency tweezers are no better than non-electrified household tweezers."

Articles on this page are excerpts from Electrolysis, Thermolysis, and the Blend by Arthur Ralph Hinkle