BaByliss homelight, User Manual

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1.1. Long-lasting hair removal method with the Homelight epilator
The Homelight epilator is a personal long-lasting photo-epilation device. The photo-epilation
procedure is well known and has been mastered. It has been subjected to over 15 years of
clinical testing around the world for more than 15 years and has proven its effectiveness and
its safety in offering gradual but long-lasting hair removal.
How does the light eliminate hair?
Photo-epilation is based on the theory of selective photothermolysis which uses optical
energy to stop the growth of the hair. To obtain such thermal effects, the root of the hair
must selectively absorb the light energy and transform it into heat. This selection is produced
when most of the optical energy emitted is absorbed by the pigment of the bulb, while the
surrounding skin and tissue remain cold.
Melanin is the pigment found in the hair, which allows the absorption of the light, to
transform it into heat in order to stop the hair growth. Also, the more melanin in the hair
(i.e., the darker the hair), the more light it can absorb and the more efficient photo-epilation
becomes.
Before a Homelight
epilator treatment
During the pulse emitted
by the Homelight epilator
After a Homelight
epilator treatment
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