Hormonal hair is coarser, denser, and shows up on skin that's already reacting. Crybaby Wax's hard wax grips even the most stubborn chin, jaw, and body hair so you can remove it cleanly with less pain.
Crybaby Wax is for PCOS, hirsutism, and the hormonal hair other waxes don't remove.
I started shaving my face in middle school before I knew what PCOS was. It took three OBGYNs and 18 years before I was finally diagnosed. By then I'd already tried every razor, cream, and laser I could find.
Crybaby Wax is the hair removal option I wish I'd had at 16. It is a better way to remove thick facial hair with less pain that grips the densest hair and is built for the kind of hormonal growth that other brands don't even acknowledge.
Find the most frequently asked questions below.
PCOS raises androgen levels, mostly testosterone, which tells hair follicles to produce thicker, darker, coarser hair in places most women don't grow it. Chin, jaw, neck, chest, lower belly. It's called hirsutism and the majority of PCOS patients deal with some version of it. Crybaby Wax was built specifically to remove this kind of hair without the burns and ingrowns that come with other methods.
Yes. Waxing is one of the few hair removal methods that consistently works on PCOS hair without making it worse. The bigger question is which wax. Cheap rosin-based formulas are designed to grip everything, including the reactive skin underneath, and PCOS skin tends to be reactive. Crybaby Wax's I'm Sensitive Meltdown is rosin-free, vegan, and melts at around 130°F, which is closer to a warm shower than the lava temperatures most salon waxes hit.
For most PCOS hair, yes. Shaving leaves stubble in a day and irritation that turns into ingrowns. Threading and tweezing pull one hair at a time, which is fine for a few brow strays and a nightmare for a chin. Depilatories are chemical burns waiting to happen on reactive skin. Hard wax (the kind Crybaby Wax makes) wraps around the hair, releases from the skin, and pulls follicles out at the root in a single motion. Soft wax strips grip skin too, which is why most professionals use hard wax on sensitive areas like the face.
No. That's an old myth that comes from confusing shaving regrowth (a flat, blunt cut that feels thicker) with actual follicle behavior. Waxing pulls the entire hair out, including the bulb, which over time can weaken the follicle and produce finer regrowth in spots you wax consistently. PCOS keeps stimulating those follicles to produce hair, so it won't go away forever. But waxing with Crybaby Wax doesn't make it worse, and unlike laser it won't backfire on you.
It shouldn't. Crybaby Wax's I'm Sensitive Meltdown is rosin-free, low-melt at around 130°F, and coconut-scented.. Rosin (the sticky pine resin in most waxes) is what makes them grippy and irritating, and we leave it out. If you've reacted to other waxes, patch test on the inner forearm first, same as you would with a new skincare product.
Most people who wax with PCOS land in a 1-to-2-week cadence on the face and 2-to-3 weeks on the body. PCOS hair regrowth cycles are faster than non-PCOS hair, so a standard 4-to-6-week wax schedule probably won't fit. The first few sessions feel like the hair comes back fast. After several consistent cycles of waxing the same area with Crybaby Wax, regrowth tends to thin and the gap between waxes stretches.
Start with the Crybaby Wax Starter Kit. It comes with a wax warmer, a jar of I'm Sensitive Meltdown hard wax, and applicator sticks. Everything you need to wax the chin, cheeks, neck, lip, and brow. If you already own a warmer, the I'm Sensitive Meltdown jar is sold separately. For coarser body hair (Brazilian, underarms, legs), Full On Meltdown is the preferred formula.
Use this text to share the answer to the question with your customers.Nothing is permanent for PCOS hair, including laser. PCOS keeps stimulating follicles to grow, so any method you use is maintenance. Worse, some PCOS patients see paradoxical hypertrichosis from laser, where the treated area grows back with MORE hair than they started with. (Cat, our founder, lost a full year and significant money to that before she launched Crybaby Wax.) Waxing won't make you hair-free for life, but it won't backfire on you, and the smooth window lasts about 2 weeks instead of a day.
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