Are there any side effects of bikini laser hair removal?

Nowadays, many women like to wear bikinis, especially when the weather is hot, playing on the beach in a bikini is a wonderful and enjoyable process. However, many women may find that their pubic hair may be exposed when wearing bikinis. This situation can be very embarrassing, so women will choose laser hair removal to remove the pubic hair. Will there be any sequelae of doing so?

First, the sequelae of bikini laser hair removal

Skin scratches: Using a dull blade or operating on dry skin can easily cause skin scratches. When you do it yourself, it is more likely to get scratched because it is difficult to see directly and there are many wrinkles on the vagina.

Folliculitis: Folliculitis can occur whether the hair is shaved with a razor, tweezed, or waxed. If infection occurs, it may lead to suppuration or even granuloma formation.

Aggravation of infection: On the one hand, if tiny skin wounds are caused when shaving hair, pathogens can easily grow; on the other hand, if there is already an infection in a certain part of the body, such as Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus pyogenes, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, HPV, HSV, molluscum contagiosum, etc., the razor will become a transmission tool, bringing pathogens to wherever the razor reaches. People who are already infected should refrain from hair removal, or at least wait until the infection is healed before trying again.

Contact dermatitis: Any hair removal product and after-shave repair product has the potential to cause irritation and allergies, leading to contact dermatitis.

Second, is bikini hair removal good? Is it an advantage or a disadvantage?

Some scholars believe that retaining pubic hair is detrimental to private hygiene to a certain extent. Because in modern society, humans not only have trousers but also underwear. The pubic hair covering the vulva will keep the vulva in a warm and humid environment, which may promote the growth of mold, Trichomonas, pubic lice and various pathogens.

A British study conducted from 1997 to 2003 showed that shaving pubic hair can reduce the incidence of pubic lice. Pubic lice are a type of parasite that can be transmitted through sexual contact. They mainly live on the hair around the pubic area and anus. Removing the parasitic sites of pubic lice is one of the methods to treat and cut off its transmission route.

However, removing pubic hair brings with it many other health problems. Because the skin of the private area is delicate and has many wrinkles, hair removal may cause more skin wounds, allergies and infections. The occurrence and severity of these complications are not only related to personal constitution, but also to the hair removal method chosen. Blade hair removal is more likely to cause scratches, while laser hair removal is more likely to cause burns and skin pigmentation.

Third, the role of private hair

It has long been thought that pubic hair may be a remnant of a period in human evolution when we had fur, but the question is, why has hair disappeared from other parts of the human body?

One theory is that these thicker hairs are gathered around parts of the human body that have apocrine sweat glands and eccrine glands, and may be used to spread special odors (pheromones broken down by bacteria) to signal sexual maturity. In addition, in the primitive era when humans did not wear pants, the dense pubic hair not only had the function of keeping warm, but also could protect the vulva.

During sexual intercourse, the main function of pubic hair is to buffer the friction during sexual intercourse, because the mons pubis where pubic hair grows is one of the force points during sexual intercourse.