Laser Hair Treatment

Lasers have become very effective for many aspects of cosmetic surgery. They can be used without fear of side effects like you get from other methods. They are also not painful for if you are having a laser hair removal treatment done you don’t need to be worried about the pain that is associated with waxing and plucking. The lasers that are used for cosmetic surgery applications are very low power and are not anything at all like what you see in Star Wars or Star Trek. In fact, laser hair treatment uses a device that can just barely be called a laser even though the products are usually called things like laser hair comb and laser hair brush.
Laser hair removal treatments actually use a device that points several light beams at the follicle of the hair that is to be removed. This causes the pigments in the hair follicles to heat up and damage the growth mechanism of the hair roots. Since the follicle, you can think of it as the hair factor, is damaged it can no longer produce hair shaft material and the hair unit dies. There is very little discomfort with this procedure and is limited to a little bit of irritation for a few days after the procedure is done.
Surprisingly enough, hair that is darker is actually easier to remove than light colored hair. The obvious belief would be that the light would be easier but that is not the case because it is the pigment in the follicle that actually is excited by the laser light and heats up. Dark hair has a lot more pigment than light colored hair so it heats up much easier. This means it takes less energy from the laser to render the hair follicle out of commission. It actually takes less laser hair removal treatments to get rid of dark hair than light or blond.
This laser treatment for hair removal is very effective at hair that is growing but in the normal life of hair the follicle will be dormant, or in hibernation, for a few months out of the year. If the hair is treated at this time these units that are dormant will not be affected. Thus it often times takes a few treatments to get rid of all the unwanted hair.
There is also a laser treatment for hair loss that uses and extremely low energy level diode as a way to get hair growing again. The theory is that by exciting the hair follicle of a hair unit it will cause the unit to start manufacturing hair shaft material again. This may or may not be the case.