Nair Soothing Wax Kit (Nair Soothing Wax Kit)

Member Name: dizzysummer03

Product:	Nair Soothing Wax Kit
Date:	09/09/09 (48 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Reduces pain felt, really effective waxing

Disadvantages: Wax strips aren't easy to seperate

I'm never been a fan of wax strips, when I've used them in the past I've found that they either leave most of the hair still attached to you or the wax comes off the strip and sticks to your skin and it's nigh on impossible to get it off without scrubbing your skin off. However, with the credit crunch I thought I'd give them another go.

This pack is availible in Boots, it costs around £5.80 full price, but all Nair products were on offer with 1/3 when I bought my pack.

The pack contains 3 wipes to use before you wax and 3 wipes to use after you wax. There are 16 large wax strips which are attached to each other in twos and 16 small wax strips which are also attached to each other in twos.

The pre-wax wipes were there to somehow reduce the pain caused by waxing. They smelt strongly of menthol so I think this must have been the active ingredient. They certaintly seemed to do their job, it did hurt, its always going to, but it wasn't agonizing which waxing can quite easily be.

The wax strips have to be rubbed in your hands to warm them before you pull the two strips apart from each other. This worked fine with the smaller wax strips, but with the larger ones it was quite difficult to pull them apart without the strips sticking to themselves - the bottom of the strip seemed determined to attach itself to the wax in the middle and was quite hard to pull off. I did find on one occassion that despite thinking I had warmed the wax enough when I came to seperate the strips the wax was completely pulled off one of the strips which was a bit of waste.

The wax itself was blue and therefore very easy to see if you still had any residue on your skin. I was impressed with how effective the strips were, they removed all the hair quickly and reasonably painlessly, nothing like wax strips I had used previously.

The post-wax wipes were fantastic, a really useful thing to include, they removed any was residue on your skin quickly and easily with hardly any effort at all. I was really impressed as there's nothing worse than sticky bits on your skin that just aren't moving.

I was very impressed by this product, wax strips have certainly improved since the last time I've used them. I do feel that the strips themselves could have been easier to pull apart, but other than that I have no complaints at all about this product and would highly recommend it to anybody who already waxes or even if you're looking to try and wax for the first time.

Summary: Would recommend, but there is still room for improvement