ok so here's the recipe:
Put one cup of sugar in a 200mm (8", should be easy to remember that number!) pot and add the juice of half a lemon with 1 desertspoon of water to it.
Heat up on the stove and stir continuously until the sugar dissolves.
It will eventually dissolve and the temperature will rise. Carry on until the temperature reaches 120 C.
Remove the pot from the stove.
(You could use a meat thermometer for the temperature measurement).
Let the mixture cool a bit and then transfer to a plastic jar, like a spent agueous cream jar with a large lid.
Let this lot really cool down until it does not burn you. But it must still be pretty warm so you can spread it.
Basically what the rest of the process is now is like waxing, but with no wax.
Wash the area to be subject to the process of depilation and dry well.
Get hold of a clean piece of linen or cotton fabric. An old clean handkerchief works fine. Also a spatula or tongue depreser, ice cream stick, artists pallet knife, whatever, to spread a little of the mix onto the offending/desired area.
Do an area about 1" x 3" or so. Not thick.
Take the cloth and press it onto the area in a single layer and smooth out nicely.
Step back, stand up, take a deep breath, grab hold of the cloth and very rapidly rip it off making sure that the pull is in direction that the hair grows. Most of the hair from the area treated should now be on the cloth.
Repeat the process on a another area and continue.
You can also reuse a sticky area of the cloth by pressing it onto the same area again with no new mixture, or a new area and yanking it off again. This is handy for the perineum which is difficult to get to for spreading. Pretty handy for the scrotum to anus total area. Applying mix to the cloth and then pressing this onto the skin also works but probably not as well.
Clean up is amazingly simple. You can remove the odd hair that is left with tweezers. Take a face cloth, wet it in warm water and use this to remove any stickiness left on the skin before you get to the shower.
Mostly the toffee transfers to the cloth and partially exfoliates as well leaving a great smooth feeling.
If you have a really long thick jungle then I would trim it to about half an inch or so first.
You will not use a lot of the toffee, for this is what it is. The remainder can be stored away for next time. Maybe in about a month. One minute in a 900W is enough to get the toffee up to temperature.
Warm water will remove the sticky mess from the cloth but the hair will block up the drain...
This process originates from ancient Egypt, apparently. The Egyptians were very fussy about body hair and removed absolutely everything from everywhere. Since they did not have refined sugar they used honey. You can add a little to your mixture if you like. Don't know how they measured the temperature though. Probably used the sugar balling technique that cooks use sometimes when making sweets.
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