SURGI WAX Brazilian Waxing Kit For Private Parts, 4-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 3)

I love this product! I started using it in August of '09 and have repurchased it many times. I had never waxed any part of my body before using this and took a big risk going with a Brazilian my first time out. It can be messy, but once you get the hang of it, you'll be a pro in no time. Here are some key tips based on my experience: 1) Make sure the wax is heated until it's thin enough to get all the way down to the skin. If it's too thick and sits on top of your hair, it's going to hurt when you pull it off. Warning though, it will be hot when you apply it. Find the right temperature that is comfortable for you, but is thin enough to apply down to the skin level. For me personally, I like it very liquidy/thin. 2) Pull it off quickly! Don't be tentative, if you go fast it won't hurt at all. 3) Buy a mug warmer to keep it heated. I bought mine from Fry's Electronics for about $10. This is a must in my opinion. Before I bought the warmer, I had to keep going back to my microwave to reheat the wax. 4) Make sure you use the oil and re-apply if you need to. Occasionally I'll have to go over the same area more than once and it's a good idea to re-apply oil there to make sure the wax doesn't stick. My method: I sit on a towel and use a lighted mirror with magnification. This really helps to see what I'm doing. I also use a tweezer to get any stray hairs that may not have been picked up by the wax. I follow up with tea tree oil which I believe helps prevent ingrown hairs. I've heard that lotion/moisturizer with salicylic acid also prevents ingrown hairs, but I personally haven't tried this yet. Although I'm not a hairy person (I'm Asian) my hair seems to grow out fairly quickly. I hate stubble, so I end up waxing once every week. One container/tub lasts me about 5-6 waxes. I buy the 3-pack and I'm on the Amazon subscription plan so it's even cheaper. This is the cheapest price around. Good luck! *Update 8/11/12* I just wanted to add that I started using tea tree oil right after I wax and it has made a huge difference. It really helps prevent ingrown hairs and it also makes the hair grow back slower and thinner. Now I can go for 2-3 weeks without waxing. I use Desert Essence Tea Tree Oil.

A review from a guy's perspective: For waxing in general: Why would you wax? If you've never done any intimate hair removal, the smooth skin feels great. I think it looks great (on me and on women). You can find myriad sexual benefits if you spend a minute searching. If you've already decided to / already do some cleaning up down there, it's a lot simpler than shaving. It's a lot easier. Doing it at home is a lot cheaper ($14 for 7-8 months of wax vs 15 razor blades). There's a lot less maintenance (once a month compared with a few times a week!). Plus, as you wax more, the hair grows back thinner and finer. Some of the downsides: It's hard to wax around back without help. It's time consuming (about 30-45 minutes, but that's only once a month). You need to wait for your hair to grow back to 1/4" before you can wax again. It may lead to a few ingrown hairs (a bunch that get stuck but free themselves, and one or two that need to be helped out), but none that are painful. The ingrown hair problem can be helped with something like Tend Skin, which is meant to stop ingrown hairs. The first time you wax will hurt the most, but every subsequent time will hurt much less. For this product: I tried this out as an alternative to wax strips (Sally Hansen for Men). It's much, much better. There is a lot less pain (be honest: you're ripping hair out, it's going to hurt a bit), but it's more than bearable. It's close to pulling an adhesive bandage off your arm. If you read some of the reviews talking about how painful it is, I've got to say I think they didn't read the instructions and did it wrong. The instructions are pretty clear. The wax comes with an oil to put on your skin to prevent the wax from sticking to your skin so the wax only sticks to the hairs. This makes the process a lot easier on sensitive skin. The oil will stay on your skin for a few hours afterwards, but it's so little it doesn't stain anything. Definitely use the oil. I missed a spot once and it was pretty painful. There's more than enough oil to cover everything you're going to wax, so don't skimp. However, the first wax will hurt since there's a lot more hair with a lot more holding it in. This is a hard wax, so you don't need any cloth strips. You just apply the wax, wait about 30 seconds for it to cool, then peel it off. The trickiest part is flipping up the end of the wax so that it's big enough for you to grip and strong enough that it doesn't break. Although the wax is a bit thicker than honey, it doesn't make a mess. The wax will occasionally form a tiny filament between the applicator and the jar, but it cools quickly and falls off -- usually right back into the jar. One jar will last through about 2 1/2 waxings for your pubes, balls (use the wax a bit cooler there), and base of your penis. It's hard to get much more than that done without help from someone else.

I would highly recommend this hard wax. It's easy to use, clean up is a breeze, and it's one of the lesser painful waxes out there (not pain-free). The oil included in the kit definitely helps with the pain and the clean-up. A few tips: 1. It will be likely painful; just accept that. Everyone has their own pain tolerance, and this is a sensitive area, so don't read other reviews saying it is "pain-free" and think it will be for you too. Maybe you will get lucky and it will be, but likely there will be some pain. Put on the oil that is included first, and this helps to make it less painful when you pull the wax off. 2. Do not over-melt the wax. If it's to the consistency of broth, you've overheated it. If this happens, just let it set in room temp and solidify a bit. The consistency for best results will be like honey. Any thinner and you will probably get first or second degree burns; the temperature of hard wax melted to that point is going to burn you and once you put it on, it has to sit and solidify before you can pull it off...thus you will damage your skin. So seriously, don't do this. Any thicker and the wax isn't going to stick as well to the hairs and won't pull them out. 3. Start with a small area...1x1 inch or 2x1 inch. If you go any larger it becomes a bit more difficult. 4. Don't purchase this if you've ever had a professional wax and you prefer soft wax. This is not the same, and from my experience, those who prefer soft wax will not like hard wax and vice versa. 5. Make sure your hair is grown out about 1/4 inch or so. If it's too short, the wax isn't going to pull it out. If it's too long, same situation. Trial and error will kind of help you out because it will vary by how course or fine your hair is, but this is a good place to start. 6. As you may have guessed, the closer you get to more "sensitive" areas, the more painful it is likely to be. If you are a first time waxer, I would highly recommend to take little chunks and don't get too close the first time just so you can gauge how it will be for you. I've found my personal line that I won't cross with a waxing kit.

I personally don't recommend this for a first-time waxer, or if you've gone a long time between waxes. Until your skin is desensitized to the waxing process, it is VERY intense and painful, so I really recommend getting it done at a waxing salon for a least a couple of months before you jump to doing it yourself. That said, once you do make the jump, this is a good product. The fact that you only need a microwave to heat it is very convenient, though you do have to be careful about overheating it, partially because of the risk of burns, and partially because it becomes a very thin consistency if it gets too hot, and at that point it's almost impossible to scoop up and apply it. I personally recommend upgrading from the little wood spreaders that come with the kit to larger popsicle sticks (I was able to get a pack of 100 for fairly cheap, which will last you quite a long time). It also works great for armpit waxing. As for post-waxing, I personally get good results from icing the area more than from applying topicals, but I'm sure witch hazel and/or tea tree oil work great for some folks.

This stuff is awesome. It's the only thing I've ever used for waxing private parts, although I've used other methods of depilation, such as shaving and an epilator (ouch, that hurts like the devil). When you shave you end up with annoying stubble in at least a day, for me usually within a few hours. When you use an epilator, sometimes the hair isn't grasped well, and the device slides along the hair causing a vibration that hurts WORSE than the hair being taken away. This stuff grabs the hair very low and pulls it out without slipping. I don't even need to go over the same area twice. There's no breaking, no slipping, no nothing, just rip it off, and all the hair is gone, root and all. If a hair gets missed, it's probably because it was too short to begin with. Those are easy to take care of with a tweaser. Only thing is I feel like there isn't enough of that oil that comes with it. It's great oil, but you gotta treat it sparingly or it won't be enough to last for the jar of wax. Maybe I'm just using too much of it, but I also think for the wax experience itself you shouldn't be too stringent with it. It's an important part of the process. I haven't done anything about it myself, but I imagine you could actually buy that oil separately and that would probably be helpful. But this is a minor issue, I'm not going to drop the rating over it. Ok, TMI alert: a lot of people will tell you that you shouldn't do it during your cycle, and I think it's different for everyone, but for me it's easier when I do it during that time. Not in the first day or two, but after it starts to slow down. I think it has to do with the fact that I'm already dosed on a heck of a lot of pain killers (which I would take for waxing anyway, but perhaps not with such consistency and build up *shrug*) and also I think there's something to the fact that I'm already in pain elsewhere. Seems like I'm distracted or something. So I hardly even feel anything. But maybe that's just me. Take your time at first, go in small sections and work your way to larger ones as you get comfortable. In the beginning I actually used tweasers a little first just to get an idea of how much pain I was going to be in for. Everyone is different in this way. Although I think regardless of how much pain you have, mind over matter will get you through, you just have to be aware of how much pain to expect. Definitely take pain killers, this is important. It might not seem that important, but it really is. Not blood thinner painkillers like aspirin, as another post mentioned, but Tylenol, for instance. Until I started waxing I thought painkillers only worked on a constant pain because if I hurt myself, I still hurt. And perhaps there is some level of truth to this theory, because when you take the hair it DOES still hurt, but the intensity of the pain is WAAAAAYYYY better with a pain killer. Maybe some people will think I'm being a master of the obvious here, but maybe some others will be where I was a few years ago, and might find this enlightening, who knows. I have no microwave, but I have still been able to use this pretty effectively, and for those of you who are paranoid schizos like me who are afraid of radiation, you might find this useful! I put the container on a pan in the oven at the lowest possible temperature and wait probably half an hour. Then I pour the contents into a ceramic dish that I have dedicated specifically to that purpose and put it on the stove at the lowest possible temperature. I heat it until it's thin, then I shut it off when it starts to get a little too warm for comfort, then I turn it back on when it gets a little thicker than I want, etc. Works pretty darn well. I never have to stop and reheat if I pay attention to the state of the wax. When you're pouring from the plastic jar to the ceramic container, you may want to do that over a newspaper or something because it's kinda messy. And when that wax gets on something, say goodbye to whatever it is. If the wax DOES accidentally get on something important to you DO NOT TRY TO WIPE IT. It will just smear it around and it may become impossible to remove after that. Just let it sit there, it will become hard and then when you pick it off, all of it will come off.