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 [...]
Heating Things Up: La Grande Melting Pot, a Wax Warmer
1 comment so farSo as you all probably know from my CacheBeauty Amazon saga I finally recieved my (working) La Grande wax warmer! I was looking for a warmer that was affordable, yet had the capability of heating loose wax instead of a container since I make my own. At first I looked at another product [...]
An Ode to Customer Service: CacheBeauty (Revisited)
No commentsIn a previous blog entry, I told the unfortunate tale of the wax warmer that I bought off of Amazon from CacheBeauty. When I got it in the mail, it was broken and I called their toll-free number. The woman on the phone told me they would send another warmer out with a shipping label [...]
Homemade Wax Cubes
No commentsWhy spend $10 for a 14 oz. container of wax that (at most) will wax your legs two to three times? There’s a simple homemade recipe that can produce gallons of wax at the same cost.
This recipe can be found on hundreds of places online, but only here on TinkerBot will you find an accompanying [...]
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 [...]
An Ode to Customer Service: Cache Beauty
3 comments so farI went ahead and bought the La Grande Melting Pot (wax warmer) from CacheBeauty on Amazon for my wax vs. duct tape leg waxing experiment. Being the dork I am, I was looking forward to plugging it in and FINALLY being able to wax my legs without nearly burning myself. Unfortunately, once I [...]
One Day Delay…
No commentsSorry I wasn’t able to finish and post the blog about tape waxing today. I had a really busy day yesterday and my body just isn’t accustomed to that much activity since I’ve been sick for so long (I had mono for about 8 months). To say in the least I was a [...]
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 [...]
