Eflornithine (Vaniqa) is a prescription cream specifically for excessive facial hair in women. It's applied directly to the affected area of your face twice a day. It helps slow new hair growth but doesn't get rid of existing hair. It can be used with laser therapy to enhance the response.
So, if you want to get rid of those whiskers, methods like plucking, waxing and threading are best because pulling hairs from their root traumatizes the follicle and slows, if not eliminates, regrowth.
Women may experience chin hair and other facial hair for a number of reasons, including genetics, age, and hormonal fluctuations. While the presence of chin hair can indicate a health problem, that isn't always the case.
During menopause, a woman's body stops circulating estrogen but continues to circulate the same amounts of testosterone. The imbalance of hormones causes the appearance of some male secondary sex characteristics, like coarse facial hair. You should let your doctor know if your facial and body hairs are growing quickly.
Laser Removal
Laser hair removal is a popular choice for getting rid of facial hair, as it's a great treatment for darker, more coarse hairs. This treatment is done by using a laser to target the hair follicle, which causes the hairs to fall out and eventually stop growing.
Vitamin B6 and Vitamin E
Dietary supplements that contain vitamins B6 and E are also believed to help get rid of unwanted hair growth in the facial areas. For one, vitamin B6 is thought to help lower testosterone in women and inhibit prolactin hormone production.
Bleaching is another method of addressing excess facial hair growth after menopause, but again, this is only masking the problem. Electrolysis is a gentle form of removing the excess facial hair growth after menopause and is the only method that can guarantee that those hairs will not return – ever!
Other ways to prevent unwanted hair growth include balancing your hormones, taking a high-quality multivitamin to fill in any nutritional gaps, reducing stress, and keeping your body fat under 30%. Both stress and excess fat can lead to increased androgen production.
As those hormones decline, hair growth slows, well, sort of. Unfortunately, this is also the time when coarse, dark hairs may start popping up on your upper lip, chin, or jaw line.
Even laser hair removal does not remove hair permanently from the face. Electrolysis is the only method that removes facial hair permanently.
The chin hairs are sometimes a normal part of aging after menopause. However, they can also indicate an underlying condition causing hormonal imbalances. Anyone concerned about chin hair growth should talk to a doctor or dermatologist about potential treatment options.
Tweezers are people's first choice for chin hair removal at home. The most reliable way to remove hair is to sterilise the tweezers with alcohol before proceeding. This is no lasting solution, as hair will grow back after 2-3 weeks, but it's inexpensive and seamless if you have just a few hairs.
If the goal of tweezing or plucking facial hair is to make your face cleaner, tweezing can cause the opposite effect. In some cases, as the skin near the hair follicles become more inflamed, this can cause moles and acne to flare up – and potentially lead to ingrown hairs.
Thus, out of shaving and plucking facial hair, shaving is better. But even shaving is not recommended because skin on your face is extremely delicate and soft. Comparatively waxing and laser hair removal are the best ways to get rid of facial hair.
Dr Swann says: “Plucking hairs actually pulls them out of the root structure, which causes two problems: The first is that plucking causes inflammation and damage to the follicle, which can look like a pimple.
It is important to realize that estrogen usually does not cause body hair or facial hair to go away altogether. Beard hair that is present when you begin estrogen will not go away on its own. Because of this, many people on estrogen therapy choose to undergo laser treatments or electrolysis for hair removal.