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havana8
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Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:15 pm  |
Looky loo at what was just added to the EDS store.... ACRA Permanent Hair Removal Device by DS Laboratories Products! At around $66 CAD  , it is certainly modestly priced--I think I may have to buy this! 
Description from EDS: The ACRA Permanent Hair Removal Device delivers professional salon electrolysis at the unheard-of price. Before this system, only battery-operated toys were available at such a low price. Today anyone can afford true AC-powered, galvanic-current, permanent electrolysis right at home. For the price of one or two salon treatments, get your own system to use in the privacy of your own home on your own schedule.
Remove even coarse hairs one at a time with the galvanic tweezers included. Plus, the grounding wrist strap and beeping alarm mean setup couldnt be more convenient. Other low-cost devices, often advertised through infomercials, relied on insufficient battery power and ineffective radio frequencies. You might as well have just plucked the hairs, since they grew right back.
Driven by AC power, however, the new ACRA Permanent Hair Removal Device dissolves hair follicles permanently by producing sodium hydroxide in the hair shaft, just like professional salon systems.
Needle electrolysis
Electrolysis is a process in which a needle is inserted into a hair shaft and an electrical current passed through the hair follicle. Below the surface of the skin, the hair is immersed in a watery environment with a high mineral content. Electrical current from the needle causes a chemical reaction, turning water and salt in the hair follicle into sodium hydroxide, which dissolves the follicle and the papilla to cause complete and permanent destruction of hair growth. Although highly effective, this procedure has drawbacks: The insertion of a needle into the skin over and over again can be painful. Treatment with a needle requires a high degree of skill to guide it precisely to the bottom of the hair follicle. Penetrating the skin with a needle creates a risk of infection.
ACRA® electrolysis
It is unnecessary to insert a needle to produce sodium hydroxide in the hair follicle. The ACRA system works by grasping the hair, pre-treated with a highly conductive silver-chloride gel, with tweezers and applying a current. Without the conductive gel, the process would not work, since hair does not conduct electricity. But applying silver-chloride gel to the hair allows electrical current to traverse the non-conductive portion of the hair down into the follicle.
http://www.essentialdayspa.com/acra-permanent-hair-remov-p_9590.htm |
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Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:49 pm |
The price sounds attactive.
Has anyone tried this product or electrolysis at salon? How is the result compared to Laser hair removal? |
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Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:58 am |
sounds really attractive! 
how many times does one hair need to be treated? only once? it never comes back??? |
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31, combo - oily, breakout-prone, fair complexion, sensitive and prone to rosacea |
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Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:49 am |
Acra looks pretty similar to the Vector electrolysis machine, which is also AC-powered. That means it is powerful! I bought Vector a few years ago, but have to admit that I was a bit frightened to experiment with AC-powered electrolysis on my own, so I did hardly use it.
Description from EDS' website: Before this system, only battery-operated toys were available at such a low price.
Well... the "battery-operated toy" managed to remove all my unwanted hair growth permanently.
Aiva - no matter if you use a battery-operated electrolysis device with needle, this AC-powered device or get professional electrolysis treatments, you need several treatments (perhaps up to five or 10) to remove the hairs permanently. |
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Female, 40, Norway. Normal/dry skin, starting to see signs of aging. Staples: Glycolic acid cleanser, SkinCeuticals Phloretin CF, Revaleskin, NIA24. |
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Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:43 am |
This has really peaked my interest. Any guinea pigs who are going to try it and report back?
Mind you, at that price, it's not too bad a risk - much better than shelling out £100's to see if something like this works. |
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Fri Aug 22, 2008 7:40 am |
I have read a few on-line reveiws for this product that were not polite - for example these were on the revolution health store site:
Horrible product! Makes ...
by Anonymous in Undisclosed on 3/25/08
Horrible product! Makes your fingers go numb while having to hold each hair tightly with the tweezers.
Don't waste your money or ...
by Anonymous in Undisclosed on 3/17/08
Don't waste your money or time on this product. It just does NOT work! Yes, I did follow the directions and I am very patient.
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This is horrible!!! I've ...
by Anonymous in Undisclosed on 2/14/08
This is horrible!!! I've been using this for months now without improvement, not to mention you get the smallest possible amount of conductive gel. It's not even worth the low cost. |
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Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:21 am |
| I've already wasted money on tweezer-based at home hair removal stuff. So I'll be waiting for someone else to be the guinea pig this time. |
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Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:32 am |
| I would recommend reading the information on the hairfacts.com website. It states that there is no research to back up claims of permanent hair removal for any needle free electrolysis device. |
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Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:29 pm |
| Jenhelen7 wrote: |
| I would recommend reading the information on the hairfacts.com website. It states that there is no research to back up claims of permanent hair removal for any needle free electrolysis device. |
ITA. I've done a bit of research on at home electrolysis and the consensus seems to be you need use a needle system. |
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