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08-22-22, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by WhyFi

How popular is it? How popular should it be?

I've been waxing for a few years. While I'll agree that it's much lower maintenance overall, the work is heavily front-loaded and I can see that dissuading a lot of people.

Not only the cleaning, but the exposure to solvents, not to mention proper disposal of same, are the kind of thing that reduce my interest in trying it.

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