Professional body sugaring is a hair removal technique that gently removes hair from the root using a natural sugar paste. Unlike waxing, sugaring is less painful and less irritating, making it the preferred method for those with sensitive skin.

The sugaring paste is vegan, gluten-free and cruelty-free. The simple formula is a blend of sugar, water, lemon juice, and acacia gum and is safe for all skin types. The sugar paste gently exfoliates your skin, removing dead skin cells, and leaving it soft, silky, and healthy.

Certified in Advanced Body Sugaring since 2014, Natalie performs the most gentle and effective sugaring technique in the industry. She is committed to a high standard of service and helping you achieve your hair removal goals.

Natalie will help you schedule sugaring appointments tailored to your skin and hair needs. Ask about packages or programs to help you achieve long-lasting results if your goal is permanent hair reduction.

Using a razor or depilatory creams before or between appointments will interfere with your results. There is no need to grow your hair more than four to seven days after shaving, as the Advanced Sugaring Technique can extract very short hairs. Hydrating and exfoliating regularly between sugaring treatments is important to strengthen your skin. Your practitioner will consult you on how you can maximise your treatment results. The better your skin, the better your treatment. The better your treatment, the better your skin… It’s that simple!

Pure and Natural Ingredients

Sugaring paste is made from natural ingredients. With no testing on animals, it is so natural you can EAT it!

It Is Not As Hot

The Advanced Sugaring Paste is applied at body temperature, making it safe for all areas. It is even safe for spider veins and varicose veins. It will not increase blood supply, and will never burn your skin. Sugar paste is barely lukewarm.

Hot wax must be heated to a very high degree to become liquefied. This amount of heat can cause burning and scarring. It also causes swelling in the tissues, which makes hair removal difficult. Long-term use can break down the underlying connecting tissues, especially in the lip and brow areas, which are associated with WRINKLING.

It Is Easier To Clean Up

Sugar can be easily cleaned up with water – from both skin and clothing. You will never feel sticky after treatments like with waxing.

It Will Not Stick To The Skin

Sugar cannot stick to live skin cells. Live cells are wet, and because sugar is water-soluble, it will not adhere to live skin cells. It will extract the hair and exfoliate the dead skin cells, helping to free ingrown hairs. It’s also safe to perform treatment on dry itchy eczema and dry psoriasis. This means less discomfort for you, and less tgrauma to your skin. It is gentle enough to go over the same area several times when necessary to extract the shortest and most coarse hair, without causing skin damage or irritation.

Wax has been known to remove more than just the hair since it can adhere directly to live skin cells, which makes waxing painful and irritating. Wax cannot be applied to an area more than twice at the most.

It Is More Efficient

The Advanced Sugar Paste can be used over and over on different parts of the body and is discarded after each treatment. It is never used on any other person.

Waxing requires constant dipping for each strip applied, and is more time consuming.

It Never Dries

Sugar will not dry so an entire area can be worked over without stopping to get more product. Most waxes must be removed immediately before they dry. This means repetitious dipping and stripping, making the process longer than necessary.

It Will Not Break As Many Hairs

Using an Advanced Sugaring Technique, the paste wraps around the hair shaft making it pliable, while seeping below the mouth of the follicle and lubricating the hair to make the extraction more complete and gentle. The hair is eased out of the follicle only in the natural direction of growth, which helps to extract the hair intact. Because of the direction of extraction, you feel little, if any, discomfort.

One of the most common problems waxers face is early regrowth due to broken hairs. Waxing can leave 15 – 30% breakage behind. This problem is usually not caused by the beauty therapist but by the wax used. Since wax hardens on the hair, it tends to break it off at the surface, rather than pull it out.

It Is More Sanitary

The sugaring paste is hypoallergenic and non-comedogenic. Sugar helps control cross-contamination. Since the paste has such a high concentration of sugar, bacteria cannot breed in the jar. Sanitation is increased when Essential Tonic and nitrile gloves are used with the anti-microbial skin cleanser, Presept.

Cross contamination in a waxing room is always a danger, especially since bacteria will breed inside of a wax jar.

Note: Sugar was used to heal wounds during the American Civil War as it helps to prevent infections while promoting healing.

It Is Environmentally Friendly

When used with landfill-biodegradable beauty wipes, and gloves, the sugar paste, along with your dead skin cells and hair breaks down in the landfill when exposed to water. Wax is a plastic resin, so it, and wax strips will never break down.

Can Extract Very Short Hairs

The Advanced Sugaring Technique requires 3 mm or four to seven days of growth after shaving. Wax products require at least two to three weeks of growth before treatment when shaving.

Leads To Permanency

After a number of treatments, the hair follicle begins to deplete. The hair grows more refined each time. Because sugar can extract the shortest hair, it is possible to extract hair in the early anagen phase, which can lead to permanency. You will see superior results after just a few treatments.

Wax is made from resins and adheres to live skin cells, hair and any surface it touches. Removal causes unnecessary pain.

Sugar paste does not adhere to live skin cells, so it cannot lift the skin as wax does. It gently exfoliates dead skin cells when removed, leaving behind silky smooth skin. Sugar paste is water-soluble and easily removed from any surface.

As you may develop a few white pustules in this area following your first and second treatments your Alexandria Professional Practitioner will treat and help prevent this by soaking a cotton pad in a mixture of Saltspring® and water and applying it to the treated area for five minutes following treatment.

Your Alexandria Practitioner will apply a Mud Puddle® Hungarian Wellness Mud™ mask immediately following treatment to quickly reduce redness in this area. You can also apply it at your convenience at home. Your Alexandria Practitioner will educate you on the many benefits of our Mud Puddle® Hungarian Wellness Mud™.

Beginning your hair removal journey with Alexandria Professional Body Sugaring in puberty will yield you the best results. Your Alexandria Practitioner will consult with you to establish a routine suitable to your hair growth pattern so that each treatment works more effectively towards the diminishment of your hair.

Regular sugaring treatments will enhance and brighten your skin, however, it may be more prone to sunburn immediately following a sugaring treatment due to dead skin cell exfoliation. We recommend you wait 24 hours before exposing your skin to the sun or infrared lamps and advise against the use of solariums. We will not perform a sugaring treatment on an area where your skin is sunburned.

Do not use perfumed soap or products with chemical irritants on sugared areas within 24 hours of your treatment. Do not apply deodorant to underarms for 12 hours after a sugaring treatment. We recommend that you avoid make-up for 12 hours following a facial sugaring treatment.

We suggest that you do not schedule your appointments to coincide with your menstrual cycle, as you may be more sensitive. This is a personal choice, however, and your service is able to be completed with the use of a menstrual cup (preferred) or tampon.

Tiny red spots may appear on the skin for a few hours. If this should happen, do not be alarmed. This is a natural reaction caused when hair is removed by the root. It will disappear quickly. The bigger the root, the bigger the spot. As your hair is refined, the spots will become smaller.

If you experience any discomfort or redness, simply apply CC’Me Calming and Cooling balm, formulated to calm and cool your skin before and after hair removal. Restore lotion and Essential Tonic, along with  Mud Puddle® Hungarian Wellness Mud™ will instantly soothe and calm your skin.

Alexandria Professional has formulated a product called CC’Me (Calm and Cool Me) to calm and cool your skin before and after removing your hair. It is a pure and natural blend of Shea butter, Carapa Procera Oil (a fruit sourced in Africa whose oil has invigorating, emollient, nourishing and analgesic properties), sunflower seed oil and others. Apply CC’Me 15 minutes prior to your sugaring treatment to ease discomfort and calm potential reactions on all areas of the body. Apply post-treatment by massaging a small amount of CC’Me to the treatment area.

The following conditions can not be sugared:

• Enlarged Varicose veins
• Phlebitis
• New scars
• Sunburned skin
• Warts
• The inner ear
• Network beards
• Bruises or lesions
• Skin tags
• Raised moles

If you are using the following on your skin, you are ineligible for sugaring:

• Retin-A
• Accutane

No. Sugaring is epilation – hair removal by the root, whereas laser uses concentrated light to destroy the hair follicle.

At Slow Beauty, we refer to Brazilian hair removal as an “L.A. Bikini,” and we have three different options that eliminate varying areas of hair removal: Classic Bikini, Extended Bikini, and L.A. Bikini.

Absolutely not. Sugaring will not damage, burn or scar your skin.

Sugar hair removal isn’t hot — it isn’t even close. The sugar paste is body temperature, so you don’t have to deal with hot, burning wax on your skin, making it perfect for sensitive skin.

Absolutely! The sugar paste that we use is natural and water-soluble. The sugar paste is so safe that it’s edible! When you use sugar, you only get beautiful skin.

Loofahs cannot be disinfected and can cause adverse skin conditions resulting from bacteria growth in the sponge. Exfoliating gloves can be used and sanitised like a washcloth for a more sanitary method of gently removing dead skin cells.