National Hair Journal "National Hair Journal" is a website
billed as "The professional hair restoration and replacement
authority." It is intended to look and sound like a trade
publication. However, it is more accurately described as a repository
for promotional material from various companies in that field.
A company called  HairLabs cites
the "National Hair Journal" on its promotional material,
as if this "journal" were an objective publication.
HairLabs promotes a "transcutaneous electrolysis" patch
device called the TransQ-2000, made by International Hair Removal
Systems (IHRS).
Treatment with the TransQ-2000
or other IHRS devices should be avoided by all consumers. There
is no published data showing it can remove hair permanently.
Reputable companies usually do not associate themselves with
these devices.
Contact information:
Address: 1107 Fair Oaks Avenue, Suite
431, South Pasadena, CA 91030
Phone: (800)477-7849 (626)441-5572
Fax:
email: cwebb@nationalhairjournal.com
website: www.nationalhairjournal.com
Contact: Christopher Webb
Notable unsubstantiated claims
"National Hair Journal" is merely a vehicle for advertising
and public relations, like "Kitty's Consumer Beware"
or other sales sites masquerading as objective consumer information.
No attempt at journalistic objectivity is made. For instance,
there is an undated, uncredited report with glowing information
about "transcutaneous electrolysis." Obviously, no one
made any attempt to verify the false and misleading statements
made by the promoter who wrote the piece. Illegal and
unsubstantiated claims are in bold:
Even Better Below The Surface
The new Transcutaneous Hair Removal Patch system is non invasive,
virtually painless and has almost no side effects.
It allows the technician to treat large areas, such as a man's
back, in less than an hour. Each electrode pad or "patch"
is 1.5" x 3.5" and as many as twelve patches can be
applied at once, permitting treatment of an area 18" x
42". The patches are applied to the area where unwanted
hair is to be removed over a thin layer of gel that is formulated
to conduct the galvanic current down into the hair follicle.
Once the patches are in place, an electrode is inserted into
each patch delivering a current to the offending hair follicles
and permanently disabling all hairs follicle beneath
the patch. As with all other hair removal therapies,
only the hairs in the anagen phase are vulnerable to treatment
and thus permanently affected. This necessitates the client
or patient returning at predetermined intervals to treat the
next crop of hair follicles graduating from the telogen phase
to the anagen, or growing phase. Because the Transcutaneous
Hair Removal Patch does not attack the pigment in the hair or
skin, as do some lasers, it is now possible to safely and permanently
remove hair of any color from any type of skin. The transdermal
electrode pads or "patches" are the centerpiece of
the Transcutaneous Hair Removal Patch, a versatile hair removal
system which features not one, but three hair removal modalities
integrated into the same Class 1, FDA approved,
medical device. The unit itself is 10" wide by 20"
long by 2" deep with clean medical lines and features two
separate channels that are easy to read, adjust and monitor.
The two separate channels allow the technician to either work
on two areas of the body at the same time, or two patients simultaneously.
Far from being tedious, the system is virtually "hands
free." When hair removal of a more sculpted nature is required,
as in the case of brows and hairlines, the device offers a transdermal
tweezer which permits the technician to "tweeze" single
hairs, while delivering a mild current through the tweezing
instrument to permanently kill the hair follicle. For areas
too small to address with the patch, and too large to treat
with the transdermal tweezer, the same system provides a transdermal,
non invasive probe which transmits current through a specially
formulated gel applied to the surface of the skin, allowing
the technician to remove unwanted hair from areas like the lip,
nipples and under-arms. On the surface, and below the surface
where it counts, clinical studies indicate that the
Transcutaneous Hair Removal Patch system is a superior method
of hair removal.
The fact that the FDA has certified non-invasive transcutaneous
electrolysis as permanent, and patient studies reveal
the procedure to be virtually painless with few if any side
effects, places this technology in a class by itself. Add to
this the fact that this equipment can be purchased for less
than $7,000, and you have not only one of the most exciting
cosmetic developments of this century, but one of the greatest
cosmetic bargains of the next.
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