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ascp now offers advanced modality insurance! ascpskincare.com/ami 69 BENEFITS OF SUGARING First, sugar paste is not hot. It is generally only heated to body temperature, so there is no risk of burning or sensitizing delicate skin. This is a huge benefit for clients who tend to be sensitive to heat, both from a skin and comfort perspective. This lack of heat can help ease your client's anxiety and help them relax so you can get your treatment finished quickly. Another important benefit is that sugar paste is water soluble and cleans up very easily with a warm, wet towel. It can be quickly removed from your floor, table, or even the client's hair. And, you can quite literally erase your mistakes! If, while applying the paste to an area, you then change your mind (think too thin of a landing strip), you can easily wipe it away and start fresh. The same goes if you apply the paste and have difficulty removing it. We call this "getting stuck." I like to tell my students that getting stuck is just part of the sugaring learning curve and that it will happen occasionally despite best efforts to avoid it. Sugar paste shifts with treatment room, client, and practitioner temperatures. There will be times you or your client are running hot and you find yourself struggling to remove the paste due to it warming and softening past your skill level. Fortunately, in these situations you can simply remove the paste with water and, most of the time, your client will be none the wiser. Its water solubility also prohibits it from attaching to and lifting healthy, live skin cells. Don't get me wrong, sugar is very sticky and can be a powerful exfoliant on very dry skin, but it's not strong enough to attach to and lift live dermal cells. You can assure your clients their skin will be in great condition when they leave the treatment room. From a performance perspective, this also means you can safely double back over areas with tougher hair that did not extract well on the first try. If your client has a second layer of anagen growth, you can absolutely pass over the area again to remove that next wave of shorter or more stubborn hair. The caveat to this is that you should always be monitoring your client's skin to ensure you're not overexfoliating delicate areas such as the labia when performing Brazilian sugaring treatments.