Ok, this is really freaking me out. I am going to call the girl who I does my waxing and find out if this is true! If I can recall, though, I think she uses a new wooden stick for each dip of wax (that would matter, right?). If not, geez, I’m gonna have to re-think those brazilians. Scary…and I’m ashamed to not have known or thought of this before!
And even then, how could you guarantee that everyone else washed as well?
Me neither. All I can think of is how much it hurts to remove a bandaid.
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Find out if what, exactly, is true?
Don’t go depending in the person who provides the service to answer your questions about how safe it is.
And no, a new wooden stick (or plastic one) for each person probably wouldn’t matter if the wax is being re-used. There seem to be some question of how hot the wax needs to be heated for it to be safe – i.e., to fill all the little buggers that might infect you. I don’t know the answer to this.
Your girl should be able to answer what the heating temperature of the wax is, and whether the wax is re-used among customers. Personally, I wouldn’t rely on her answers to any safety issues.
It sounds like she’s asking about whether they reuse sticks. Using a new stick for every dip of wax would be just as safe as not reusing wax between customers.
Now, whether you believe that they absolutely always remember to never reuse a stick even once … So in general I’m with **Boyo Jim **to take what an aesthetician says about this with a grain of salt.
I’m a dude, and I’m dude hairy, don’t wax, never seen it done, but based on what I’ve read, the transmission of disease is from the part where they rip out your hair leaving some spots of blood behind.
Right now in Canada they are running ads warning people about hepatitis and a cosmetic place is featured as one of the “Ew! Did you know there could be cooties here?” environments.
Missed edit, ETA: Heck, Health Canada warns you not to share nail clippers with someone whose got hepatitis, let alone share a pot of wax that may have droplets of someone else’s blood in it that’s going to be spread around your hoo-ha .
No blood in the wax- a little blood might be on the fabric strip used to rip your hair out by the roots, but that never goes back into the wax vat- only the applicator stick, which is she was competant, doesn’t need to go over the same area twice! 
Gosh, did this thread ever ruin the magic.
AAAHHHHH!!!
Oh Jesus Christ, I don’t care if I NEVER get any-there is no way, no way in HELL I am ever getting any part of my body waxed. EVER.
Ah, I didn’t realize they would use multiple sticks per person, so a contaminated stick or wax dribblets would never get back into the pot. Simply changing sticks between people would do no good at all.
When I first heard of body waxing, I thought ladies were getting all shiny for the beach. Kinda like when bodybuilders cover themselves with oil for a competition.:smack:
Alright, it’s about time “hairy” comes back in fashion.