Over 135 years ago, a St. Louis eye doctor, Charles Michel needed to remove a patient’s infected eyelash. Using direct current, he successfully caused a chemical reaction inside the follicle from which the hair grew. The patient’s problem eyelash never grew back. Dr Charles Michel dubbed his procedure “electrolysis” and it has been used ever since.

    In the centuries before Dr. Michel’s discovery, when confronted with unwanted hair, people used pumice stones, flintstone razors, carbolic acid, barbed wire, and other strange devices on their hair but none of these methods are permanent. Today, people shave, wax, tweeze, use depilatories, and other temporary measures but they can lead to razor burn, ingrown hairs, and distorted follicles. Also, stubble is a constant nuisance with these temporary measures. Tweezing and waxing cause a darkening and thickening of the hair over time because, when you pull a hair out by the root, it stimulates the blood supply to that root. Electrolysis is the only permanent method with a proven track record.

    Heredity, medications, and over activity of certain endocrine hormones can all be culprits in the production of unwanted hair. Whatever the cause, electrolysis can permanently correct the situation. Electrolysis is popular with women in general and especially models, actresses, dancers, swimmers and with both men and women body builders and athletes.

    We hope this explanation will help you understand what electrolysis does and what our mutual goal is: permanent removal of unwanted hair.