Homemade Sugar Pasting

Sugar Pasting Recipe

·         2 cups white cane sugar

·         1/4 cup lemon juice

·         1/4 cup water

You can use lemon juice concentrate if you don’t have fresh lemons, I do.

Mix ingredients in a heavy sauce pan over a medium-high heat. Stir the mixture often so that it doesn't overheat at the bottom.

This recipe can be used for both face and body sugaring. Many people are turning to this hair removal method because it's more gentle to the skin and less painful than waxing.

Using a heavy sauce pan is extremely important. If the sauce pan is thin it can throw off the entire temperature and overheat the sugar, making it cook too quickly. Cooking fast isn't good, it needs this time to simmer. So I would suggest using a heavy, stainless steel pan if possible.

After it comes to a boil, turn the heat down to low-medium and simmer for 25 minutes. This length of time is needed to get the final product just right. If it's not cooked long enough, the end sugar hair removal product will be too sticky to work with.

TIP: if you have a candy thermometer use it and keep the temperature in the soft ball range

Caution. If you only have a thin saucepan, a low-medium heat may be too high of a temperature to simmer. Keep the temperature as low as you need so that it's only simmering, not boiling and turning dark too quickly.

You will see the hair sugaring mixture darken as the time goes along. But this isn't just the right color yet, it still needs to cook a little bit longer.

After 25 minutes of simmering, the sugar hair removal result should be a dark amber color. Remove it from the heat and let it cool for about ten minutes before placing in an air-tight container. Be careful, it's hot.

The picture on the left is how the end product should look. The sugar on the right is one I didn't cook long enough, and it ended up way too sticky and not pliable enough for sugaring home hair removal. You can see there's a big difference in color. Don't forget to place an airtight lid on when storing!

Once the product has cooled, you are ready for hair removal. *Apply to skin and place paper wax removal strip. Put sugar on in the direction of the hair growth and remove against the grain

Did It Turn Out Too Hard?

A couple of people have emailed me saying that the product turned out way too hard. If that happens put he mixture and microwave it until it gets hot- try 20 second increments.

Remove from microwave and stir. Let it cool down a bit to use as sugaring gel or completely cool to use as sugaring paste.

The recipe is super simple, free of any chemicals and works surprisingly well...