Hair removal terms: S

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Sacrum lower back

Sally Hansen is a cream depilatory

Sanitation

Satinelle is an electric epilator

Scab

Scalp hair

Scarring

Schick makes razors, including the Silk Effects line

SCME Society for Clinical and Medical Electrologists

Sebaceous gland

Self electrolysis

Shaft

Shalin’s is a brand of sugaring solution

Sharplan is also known as Laser Industries and makes ruby and alexandrite EpiTouch lasers

Shaving

Shaving bumps

Shaving Powder

Shaving rash

Sheath

Silhouet-tone: manufactures a professional electrolysis machine

Silk-epil is an electric epilator made by Braun

Skin

SLS is a British laser manufaturer of Chromos ruby lasers

Society for Clinical and Medical Electrologists an electrology trade association

Sodium hydroxide

SoftLight is an Nd:YAG laser made by ThermoLase

Sonique is a brand of electric tweezer

Spa Thira was a chain of salons that offered laser treatments, now named Greenhouse

Spectrum Medical Technologies is a laser manufacturer

Star Medical is the maker of LightSheer pulsed diode array lasers

StarLight is a division of Coherent’s Palomar and make the ruby laser LightSheer

Steam autoclave

Stephens Manufacturing makes the GHR electric tweezerSugar Bare is a brand of sugaring solution

Sterilization

Steroids

Stress

Strip clearing

Subcutaneous

Subcutis

Sugaring

Sugar Bare

Sukar is a brand of sugaring solution

Sun exposure

Surgi-cream is a cream depilatory

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