When experiencing a bacterial or allergic reaction to waxing, your client may experience sensitivity, itchiness, hives or welts, and have raised white, puss-filled bumps. Post-wax acne can be commonplace, especially when the client doesn't follow proper post-wax care procedures.
If a reaction occurs, a client may immediately experience redness, inflammation, hives and/or itchiness as its involuntary defense mechanism. React. Apply a cool compress, an after wax cooling product and/or high frequency accordingly to minimize irritation.
Eczema or Psoriasis: Cracked or open skin is open to infection and should be completely healed before any wax treatment. History of Cold Sores or Fever Blisters: Waxing can cause a flare-up. Severe Varicose Leg Veins: These are known to make waxing more prone to “skin lifting” or wax burn.
Histamine Reactions to Waxing
Histamine reactions occur when the hair follicles are shocked during the hair removal process, which causes a rash after the wax is removed. This exfoliation can irritate sensitive skin and cause symptoms including prolonged redness, hives, sneezing, or red bumps.
if you have been in direct sunlight for a long period of time or in a tanning bed within the last 24 hours or your skin is sunburned. While you are pregnant or taking birth control, hormone replacement, or antibiotics medications. During this time, your skin can be more sensitive to waxing.
When experiencing a bacterial or allergic reaction to waxing, your client may experience sensitivity, itchiness, hives or welts, and have raised white, puss-filled bumps. Post-wax acne can be commonplace, especially when the client doesn't follow proper post-wax care procedures.
It is better to allow the skin to rest for a few hours. Allergies to waxes or waxing products can produce inflammation, redness, itching, swelling, a rise in temperature (the area gets tender and hot), bumps, rashes or hives, and blisters.
Folliculitis
A common reaction to waxing that occurs after you have removed your hair is folliculitis [1]. If the hair follicle is injured or damaged during the hair removal, it becomes vulnerable to bacterias like staph bacteria. The bacteria infect the hair follicles and lead to folliculitis.
HISTAMINE REACTION is like an allergic reaction but does not necessarily mean that the client is allergic to the wax or any waxing products used. Within minutes of waxing the skin may start to feel itchy and hives may appear.
Waxing sensitive skin can lead to hive-like symptoms, extreme redness, and skin lifting if not performed correctly. Waxing already-sensitive areas, like the bikini line or underarms of clients with sensitive skin types can also lead to “chicken skin,” where hair follicles get clogged by keratin and ingrown hair.
Waxing can be perfectly safe for sensitive skin. The important part is to ensure that the quality of the wax and the skill of the waxer is up to snuff. If you have sensitive skin and want to switch to the most effective method of hair removal, book an appointment with Brazils Waxing Center.
A wax burn on the skin, skin ripped off from eyebrow waxing, or a Brazilian wax burn can all resemble anywhere from a seriously skinned knee wound to a small abrasion. Sometimes, you and the client won't even notice that it's there until it starts to scab over within a day or two.
Try cold compress
Apply an ice pack directly or dip a washcloth in ice-cold water and press it against your waxed skin. It will help get rid of bumps and swelling, calm the irritation and reduce the redness. Do it for at least 10 minutes, twice a day, to heal the skin completely.
Symptoms of an infection include the hair follicle leaking pus, the area feeling warm to the touch, and in some cases, an ingrown hair cyst.
Answer: It's likely the wax was too hot, which caused a slight burn to the skin, or removed a few layers of skin. Additionally, the person doing the procedure could not have been experienced thus, they may have not done the procedure correctly.
These boils or eruptions are termed as folliculitis and are due to the traumatic pull of the hair shaft leading to inflammation of the hair follicles and pustule due to secondary contamination of the open follicles with bacteria in the presence of sweat says dermatologist, Dr Shefali Trasi Nerurkar.
Bruising occurs because the skin in not held taut. When wax is removed, and the skin is loose it will cause a "bounce back" which damages the underlying tissue and creates bruising. When working in this area, it's so important to keep our focus and keep the skin taut.
Waxing cons
Because the hair is removed at the root, some people say waxing is more painful than shaving. The hot wax can also burn your skin if you're not careful. Waxing can cause inflamed hair follicles, pain, redness, ingrown hairs and skin irritation.
What Areas Should I Not Wax? Irritated, inflamed, cut, or sunburned skin. Any area that has a rash, recent scar tissue, a skin graft, pimples, cold sores, moles or warts. Anywhere you're having dermabrasion services or have gotten them in the past three months.
It is common to develop folliculitis after hair removal, like waxing, which looks like small red bumps or pimples around hair follicles. Folliculitis occurs when hair follicles are damaged and infected by bacteria.
What Is the Most Painful Part of the Body to Wax? The most painful areas to wax are going to be the areas with sensitivity due to increased nerves, such as the lips and pubic area. "Patients tell me that the most painful areas for waxing are also the most sensitive, especially in the pubic area," Ciraldo says.