Unwanted body hair can be a most embarrassing beauty problem.

Lots of European women never bother about it, and neither do their men bother about it.

However, if you personally don't like body hair, you must remove it.

No one likes a stubble. The question is, how best to get it off. There are a number of ways in which body hair can be dealt with.

WAXING

This is one of the best answers to the problems of underarm, arm and leg hair. Though the procedure is rather painful, it is worthwhile because hair takes about five weeks to grow again.

The best thing to do if you decide on this method is to go to a waxing expert or a beautician.

However, if you decide to wax yourself at home by yourself, keep a number of things in mind.

1. Do not apply the wax when it is too hot.

2. Rip it off in one long sudden tug. Ripping off slowly will only cause greater pain.

3 Waxing of facial hair is not advisable.

SHAVING

This is the easiest and quickest way of dealing with body hair. Despite what may have been said about shaving, it does not encourage a heavier re-growth. Shaving, however, has to be repeated every other day.

For best results, shave immediately after a shower or bath. Use a lot of moisturizer lotion all over legs and then follow by a good soap lather. Wait for a minute and then shave, using long, rather than short strokes.

Rinse the razor after each stroke to make the job easier, neater and smoother. Repeat twice a week. Shaving is not suggested for facial hair or for hair on arms, stomach and breasts.

CREAMING

Using depilatory creams chemically dissolves the hair slightly below the skin. As a result of which hair grows back less briskly because its tips are rounded.

ELECTROLYSIS

This is a highly complex, slow and expensive procedure. However, electrolysis is the only permanent cure for unwanted hair. Always remember, electrolysis must only be done by an expert. Electrolysis is a process where the hair root is cauterized with a tiny electric shock.

BLEACHING

A chemical lighting that can only be done in soft, downy hair, for bleaching, you need a mixture made of one tablespoon of hydrogen peroxide and six to eight drops of ammonia.

If you find the smell too strong, add some of your pleasant smelling talc to camouflage it.

With a swab of cotton wool, apply the bleaching lotion wherever you want to bleach hair.

Leave on for at least fifteen minutes before washing off with cool water.