great, if it can be done at home 🔗 [Link: newscientist.com/blog/invention/2006/12/razor-light.html/]A device that uses light to send hair follicles to sleep, making skin smooth for weeks at a time, without shaving or waxing, is being patented by Philips.
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Researchers at Philips' Lab in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands, have found that short, weak pulses of near infrared light causes follicles to change from their natural growing state to a dormant state, known as the "telogen phase".
