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Dear Friends:
It all started with traditions and customs in the land
of my birth, EGYPT, when women not only enhanced their
beauty with makeup, they treated and conditioned their
hair with NATURAL herbs (Henna). Egyptian women completed
their beauty treatment by taking care of their skin
from head to toe by removing their unwanted body hair.
I grew up using what every Egyptian woman used to remove
unwanted body hair, a natural depilatory paste. This
paste was stiff that required kneading to become soft
and pliable to be handled as required. Usually an amount
that can be comfortably manipulated with one hand was
applied over the part of skin where hair is to be removed.
The action required to achieve the best result was to
press the paste over the skin with your thumb in a smear
motion in the direction of hair growth with the fingers.
This action was then repeated over the whole area where
hair was to be removed.
The best thing about it was the fact that it was a natural
product, but painful to your thumb and hand. By the
time you finished kneading the paste, your hand would
sometimes blister and your hand muscles would be sore.
Human nature also played a role in affecting the product
itself. If the climate was hot or humid, or you began
to perspire, the product would begin to stretch and
return to liquid form which was then impossible to use.
Usually this would occur when you still needed product
to finish the job of removing hair. You were basically
out of luck!
I was very happy coming to the United States, the land
of new vision and opportunity, but most women shaved
and used harsh chemical creams that had a foul odor.
In 1973, I was living in upstate New York, Cornwall,
on the Hudson. Like all American women, I started shaving
my legs, underarms, bikini area, tweezing my eyebrows,
upper lip, chin hair, etc. Before I knew it, I'd cut
myself or missed areas. The hairs that grew back were
coarse, and the skin was dry and irritated. It was a
very uncomfortable experience with poor results. I noticed
that my hair would almost double the amount that grew
back when I shaved.
My skin has always been a source of pride, and for me,
it should always be soft and silky. Well, it wasn't!
Determined to find a solution to the removal of unwanted
body hair, I relied on my Bachelors Degree in Home Economics
and went to work.
Three years later and after a lot of hard work, my dream
came true. CLEOPATRA'S SECRET was born, "The Ultimate
in Removing Unwanted Body Hair." This product is
not a WAX-based product. The formula is 100% Natural.
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