Hair removal, including Brazilian Waxing is a hygiene thing. In
Middle Eastern societies, removal of body hair has been considered proper
hygiene, necessitated by local customs, for many centuries.
In Islam, this is known as an act of Fitrah. Evidence of total
body hair removal in ancient India dates back to 4000 to 3000 BC and whilst
Europeans have been generally accepting of body hair, there was a period in the
Middle Ages when Crusaders returning from the Middle East made hairlessness
chic.
The West has taken a little longer to catch up. The removal of
body hair by Western women became more common when bathing suits came about,
starting in the 1940’s.
It is commonly agreed that full body hair removal originated in Middle Eastern
countries. It is thought to have come about as a response to lice, fleas other
parasites and body odour that can be prevalent in a hot climate. It later
became a religious ritual to promote cleanliness and purification. Both men and
women subscribed to full body hair removal and adhered to the expectation that
hair should be removed at least every 40 days. All this time later we still
recommend waxing every 4 to 5 weeks!
Men favored using a blade or a razor or ointments (depilation
cream) but women were tougher; preferring waxing the hair off using a homemade
sugar and lemon resin, tweezing using an early form of tweezers which the
Egyptians called “volsella” and threading, also known as khite (Arabic) or
fatlah (Egyptian).
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Sugaring is an early form of waxing and came from ancient Egypt and is still
popular in Arabic countries today. Sugaring is known in various Mediterranean
societies by the Arabic name, halawa, meaning sweet. A mixture of sugar, lemon
juice, and water is heated to form a syrup. The syrup is formed into a ball,
flattened onto the skin, then quickly stripped away, removing the hair from the
root.
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