It’s official: Getting a professional wax has made its way onto the must-do grooming list for dudes. Unibrow giving you grief? Weird little ear hair on the rise? Stubble out of control? And don’t get us started on the nose. Let’s just say, wherever you need to smooth things over, waxing is the way to go.
Especially when you consider waxing will give you back all that time you spend in the bathroom plucking and preening. By opting for a professional wax rather than trying to navigate tweezers (hello, ingrown hairs!), it's claimed your hair could take a few weeks to grow back.
“It’s kind of a set and forget it type of thing,” says Deidra Green, training manager at the European Wax Center. “I think that people look at waxing as being high maintenance, but really it’s not, because you’re decreasing the time spent on your grooming.”
Perhaps the best news is that there are other benefits of waxing beyond getting rid of annoying hairs. Below, read about the surprising ways waxing helps your skin. So go ahead—get on board. Just be sure to arm yourself first with grooming solutions specifically designed to prep, treat and calm post waxed skin, prevent ingrown hair, and keep your skin smooth and hydrated.
Face & Body Exfoliating Gel
$39 at waxcenter.com
Credit: European Wax Center
Aloe Body Lotion
$16 at waxcenter.com
Aloe Body Polish
$16 at waxcenter.com
Calming Ingrown Hair Serum
$34 at waxcenter.com
Credit: European Wax Center
It Exfoliates Instantly
You’ve no doubt heard that you need to exfoliate to get rid of blackheads and dead flaky skin. Well, the bonus of waxing is that it may also leave your skin clearer and silky smooth. “Waxing itself is a form of exfoliation. If you have dead skin, it’s going to come off on the strip along with the hairs during a wax treatment, ” Green explains.
It Can Prevent In-Grown Hairs
Few things are more annoying than ingrown hair. But there’s more good news: Waxing also goes to work on these too. “Some people are more prone to ingrown hairs than others, depending on the way that their hair grows out of the follicle. If you’re somebody who struggles with in-grown hairs after shaving, then definitely try to switch to waxing, because when we wax, we’re pulling the hair out by the root, as opposed to just cutting it off at the surface,” Green says.
Bye-Bye Body Odor
Our hair holds onto our body odor. Ew, but true. Which is yet another reason to engage in professional waxing, says Green. The reason is bacteria lives in body hair, so by removing the hair with waxing, you remove the source of some of the odor.
There, you heard it here first: Waxing is something like a facial, tweezers and deodorant all rolled into one. So what are you waiting for?
