Can a homemade sugar wax be used in a wax warmer for reheating?
No commentsYes! Absolutely. Sugar-based wax is able to be rinsed off with warm water. If you’re worried about it burning and caking onto your warmer, there’s no need. When homemade sugar wax is made, it is boiled in a pan at temperatures much higher than what can be put out by your wax warmer. Even when [...]
General Tips for Waxing
No commentsSince I’ve been keeping the focus of the blog on waxing for these past few days (and will continue to for another few) I figured it’d be a good idea to post some general tips for waxing.
Waxing is a popular alternative to shaving that removes the hair by the roots. Hair typically does not [...]
An In-Depth Look at Duct Tape Waxing
1 comment so farSo I was finally able to test out waxing my legs with duct tape. If you’re just tuning in at this point, I ran a little experiment on 5 brands of all-purpose duct tape (steering clear of utility/aircraft grade tape to avoid ripping skin off) to determine the stickiest brand which I would use in [...]
A Sticky Situation: Part 2
No commentsFor those of you who are absolutely clueless as to what’s going on, I’m testing the stickiness of different brands of duct tape. Why? To determine which brand I’m going to use when testing out the ever-popular (yet admittedly stupid) method of leg waxing using duct tape.
I covered the details of the experiment [...]
A Sticky Situation: Part 1
1 comment so farMy first large-scale series of experiments for TinkerBot are aimed towards finding the best (and cheapest) method of leg waxing. Most women (and some guys… including my queer boyfriend) know what a pain in the ass it is to shave their legs, but few realize the cost. Between my mother and I, we [...]
