Painfully Smooth

A friend of mine passed off a product to me recently because it was too harsh on her skin (she is very sensitive) so being one who is always up for testing out new things I accepted it graciously and this morning decided to try it out for myself.

The product was Smooth Away, I'm sure you've all seen the informercials for it; the small hand held pad that promises to get rid of unwanted hair and exfoliate your skin at the same time, no razor required. It also says it's "Easy, safe and painless hair removal" that "works wonders on sensitive areas."

Sounds too good to be true right? But I bit the bullet to test it out for myself and perhaps being a little too gullible to it's claim my decided test area was my armpits.

I would first just like to state that as somebody who enjoys camping I thought this product would be a genius invention to bring along for those trips, who wants to mess with razors and creams when your camping? Especially when you are roughing it and water is not available as a luxury at your disposal (okay I admit I hardly rough it when camping...but to me a weekend without running water is justified as exactly that!)

So I buffed my pits... stopped and checked them out after a few "gentle circular motions" and I noticed a small change in the hair to skin ratio so I continued... I did so for another few minutes when I started to feel the pad was tugging at my skin uncomfortably and so I stopped to check it out again... for the most part the hair was gone but there was a small patch that seemed to be impervious to my attempts... I put the pad away and decided to call it quits as I didn't want to irritate my skin any further...apparently it was too late!

Mere minutes afterwards my armpits felt like they were on fire, like the worst razor burn I've ever had!!!

I tried cooling them with water, smothering them with my Vaseline Cocoa Butter lotion, lathering up with D's soothing after shave cream and finally my Intensive Repair Hemp hand cream...  I am now sitting with a towel wrapped around myself as I cannot bear to have fabric of any kind touching the skin under my arms, if you find yourself in the same predicament I will tell you that the latter of my efforts to sooth was the winner and that hand cream is from the Body Shop... but I hope that instead you will all learn from my mistake.

Yours Truly,

Smooth(ish) Pits