Urushibata O, Kase K
Second Department of Dermatology, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
J Dermatol. 1995 Oct;22(10):738-42. doi: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.1995.tb03912.x.
Fourteen healthy adult Japanese females were selected to participate in a comparative study of hair plucking (a temporary hair removal technique) and the blend method (a permanent hair removal technique). The effectiveness of permanent hair removal and the safety of the blend method were examined in this study. If hairs of the left axilla were removed by the blend method, then hairs of the right axilla were removed by plucking, and vice versa. Every hair was removed and the number of hairs was counted each time. Sessions were conducted every three weeks, and the experiment continued until no new hair growth was seen using the same experimental standard. Electrologists with more than 1000 hours of experience were selected to perform electrolysis. Examinations of the axilla, before and after each test, were conducted by the authors. The results showed that the number of hairs decreased in the axilla with each session using the blend method: permanent hair removal was achieved in an average of 26.8 weeks or 9.9 sessions. However, the number of hairs did not decrease in the axilla after plucking. Also, there were no reports of hair removal related side-effects in this study. It was thus demonstrated that the blend method is a safe and effective way of achieving permanent hair removal.
十四名健康的成年日本女性被选来参与一项关于拔毛（一种临时脱毛技术）和混合法（一种永久性脱毛技术）的对比研究。本研究对永久性脱毛的效果和混合法的安全性进行了检验。如果用混合法去除左腋窝的毛发，那么右腋窝的毛发则用拔毛法去除，反之亦然。每次将所有毛发去除并计数。每三周进行一次疗程，实验持续进行，直到按照相同的实验标准观察不到新的毛发生长。挑选了有超过1000小时经验的电疗师来进行电解治疗。每次测试前后，作者都对腋窝进行了检查。结果显示，使用混合法时，腋窝处的毛发数量在每次疗程后都有所减少：平均在26.8周或9.9个疗程后实现了永久性脱毛。然而，拔毛后腋窝处的毛发数量并未减少。此外，本研究中没有关于脱毛相关副作用的报告。因此证明，混合法是实现永久性脱毛的一种安全有效的方法。
