Aio Waxing Body Sugar Review

Ah this stuff. It has taken me from despair to cheer (thanks goes to Magpiefi for giving some tips) anyway this was in the vault and I loved the sound of it. It promises a less painful waxing experience and ingredients that aren't full of nasties.

I used to wax back in my teenage years and I loved it. I have been waxing my eyebrows for years now and love the results.

So this arrived and I knew I had to start letting my hair grow so it would be long enough to wax. A few days later I was ready. I heated the wax for 10 seconds put a tiny bit of talcum powder on, applied a thin layer of wax to my arm pit, pressed the strip on, braced myself and ripped the strip off... No pain that was a start but I managed to get 3 hairs. I did this several times with the same result. Tried my legs same thing. I was going nuts reading the instructions over and over again and gave up destined to be like muffin Mclay like a bundle of hay.

But.. Magpiefi had her review up ahh as I read it.. Damp skin! So off I went again used the same method as above to get ready but this time I sat a hot face cloth on the area first then patted it dry a wee bit and ahhh of it all came. Still painless even though the hairs actually came off. It's like ripping a bandaid off its not painful at all. I think a big help with the pain is it's not ripping the skin. I have tried arm pits, legs and bikini all easy. I might sound like a freak but I can't wait til the hair grows back so I can do it again!! It's easy to clean up too everything just dissolves off and wipes away easily. Love this product definitely will re purchase.

When i heard about this product on BR, it sounded too goo to be true! Plus it was a version of waxing i had never heard about. Sugar waxing! It sounded delicious, but i really wondered if it would work.

This product comes in a understated cardboard box. Nothing exciting and something i would work straight past in the store. The wax comes in a frosted jar, with a plastic black lid. The jar is transparent and you can see the wax inside. It also comes with the wax strips, and two wooden spatulas.

The wax looks just like golden syrup. Its had the rich dark caramel colour to it, and the same sticky quality. It has a really thick consistency when it is at room temperature, but it is winter so no suprises there. I just leave it near the fire for a few minutes to warm up and thats when the wax looks more runny, and is easier to spread.

This wax is really easy to use. You just spread it over your hair, rub the wax strip over the hair, and then pull the wax strip off. Easy as 1, 2, 3.

I find this wax pretty effective, and one good strip is all it takes to remove most the hair, although a few straggly hairs remain Also this sugar wax is meant to be less painful than other wax strips. I haven't really used many other wax strip so can't comment on that aspect, but i do not find these painful to use at all (other than the expected slight twinge when the hairs get pulled out). Also my skin does feel sensitive after being waxed, but that's expected.

Overall, yes i would use this product again, even though it is time consuming, it saves me from shaving my legs every other day, and its not too painful either.

Since I don't use wax very often... seemed the same as any other wax for me. It may well be less painful, but I don't have much to compare it too! :( however, I do have sensitive skin and didn't make me react at all.

Packaging is a plain cardboard box with a little picture, plain but attractive. Inside this box is a thick heavy plastic jar, not clear but a brushed plastic with a black screw top lid, very nice not cheap to the touch and to look at by no means. In the box are two different sized wooden flat sticks and some nice white thick cloth strips and instructions. I undo the lid and find it's sealed so I peel the top back and there it is this sticky golden brown wax it smells faintly like caramelised sugar and golden syrup. I wax myself most of the time and I know what I'm doing, so after letting everything revert back to the 60s eeeek that's a winter thing. For the squeamish or shy stop reading now. I lightly heat this wax in the microwave for 5 seconds that's all as the room temperature was warm enough, I follow the instructions to the brief, with my ankle poised up on the back of the chair and a mirror positioned so I can see what I'm doing, this is a awkward position but effective. I drag the wax down my trimmed hair growth, it's very sticky to apply, not what I'm used to, I even find it a bit hard to smear at first, but I get it sorted and that's because my skin has to be damp not wet but ever so slightly damp, I then stick the cloth to the wax and give the cloth a wee rub to make sure it's pushed onto my hairs I tap the cloth a couple of times as I know the pain I'm going to get I grit my teeth (important to do this) and hold my breath and grab the corner of material and pull my skin tight with my other hand and rip the cloth up and off, Yussss off they come out by the roots, pain wise not to bad not bad at all, so I have another crack at it. I can also quickly stick the cloth back on with the wax side on my skin and get a couple of other stray hairs. Meaning to just do a tidy up I end up doing a little more than I had planned as it was one of the easiest waxings I've done. I chuck the cloth and the spatula in hot water and they cleaned up nicely the wax just dissolved away. So no hair holes with wee dots off blood or red goose bump skin and no broken off hairs just smooth skin, I just wipe my skin with lukewarm water no ice needed then slip into my clothes and perfect, no irritation my skin is silky smooth and you wouldn't know half an hour beforehand I was well let's say wild and wooly, the next day still smooth and soft not irritation just perfect. With this wax it seriously just sticks to the hairs and not the skin, no mess with using talcum powder to stop the wax from sticking to my skin either. This is the best wax I have ever used and not as painful as the waxing I get done professionally. I will make this my number one wax now.

The first thing that makes this product stand out from your average wax is its gorgeous packaging. It comes in a lovely frosted glass jar with a black plastic screw on lid, much nicer than the standard plastic pot I am used to. The Wax itself has a nice "good enough to eat" toffee scent and a sticky thick consistency.

I found microwaving the wax for about 10 seconds worked best and then applied it to the skin using the applicator provided. I found it a bit harder (than my standard wax which you heat for a bit longer) to spread but it still effectively removed the hair as it said it would.

I love that this is an all natural NZ product, which performs just as well as other alternatives. I used this on legs, arms and bikini line with great results. I didn't find this wax any less painful as it claims, but, am happy with the results so would happily repurchase :)

*Disclaimer* I have given away my pottle of this to a friend who does like it so maybe I was failing at using it but I couldn't bring myself to do any more!

I picked up the Aio Waxing Body Sugar in the recent Beauty Review Beauty Vault and was SUPER excited about trying it out.

The product arrived in a brown cardboard box, housing a decent number of cloth strips, two 'iceblock stick' style applicators (one big and one small) and a gorgeous, heavy glass jar of the toffee coloured product.

The wax is a dense syrup the colour, consistency and smell of liquid toffee or molasses or treacle. You thin it out/warm it up in the microwave, spread on a thin layer and use the strips to yoink out hairs. In theory.

Bearing in mind that my experience is based on one usage... this has put me off waxing full stop! The wax heated up fine, went on fine, and attached to the hair fine. It washed away from my skin cleanly and left no reaction or residue from ingredients, which is great. It smells divine and is therefore pleasant to apply in that respect.

SO...why did I give it away? When I whipped off the cloth strip, no matter how tautly I held the skin or which angle I tried, I ended up bleeding. Later that day I was really bruised and battered looking - purple blotches that took a week to fade. And man, did it HURT!

I'm glad I tried it but I'm not really a wax newbie and so it shouldn't have caused these issues, so I discontinued use immediately.

However, a BR friend requested it, and I sent it to her as she loves it for her legs. One persons trash is anothers treasure, perhaps?

I'm quite new to waxing. I tried many years ago with some strips my sister got, it put us both off for years. Then recently there was a discounted product at Farmers...well there was a reason that was discounted. OUCH! But this sugar product...well it may have just changed my mind.

When I first saw the packaging it looked like it was a jar filled with golden syrup. When I opened it up, the product was rock hard though, not like syrup (although it has a nice sweet scent) This was just because it was cold. 10 seconds in the microwave made it a syrup that was easy to smooth across my skin.

I decided being a waxing rookie I would start with my legs. It was so easy! It definitely wasn't painless - but it wasn't as painful as the other methods of waxing I have tried. I felt confident doing both my legs and managed to get most of the hair, there seemed to be the odd bit that was a bit stubborn.

I really like how it is so much easier to remove than wax too, that stuff sticks to EVERYTHING. This sugar formula was easy to remove with a cloth and warm water.

It has been two weeks since I did it and the hair hasn't come back yet, this is awesome. My hair grows so fast :( Can't wait to keep using this...and maybe be brave enough to try it in other spots ;)

If you intend on doing some home hair removal, I would highly recommend you save yourself a whole lot of pain and try out this product :) I personally love the packaging of this product, it comes in a thick frosted glass jar with a resealable lid, which makes it ideal for storage. The product itself comes quite solid, and in a deep caramel colour. It says to microwave for 5-10 seconds if needed but if you have a weak microwave like myself I suggest you microwave it for a tad longer because it is quite solid and hard to work with otherwise. The product, being all natural has no weird scents, only that of sweet sugar. Yummmy.... and is extremely easy to clean up! So if you make a mistake or get this body sugar all over the place it washes off with ease. I used this product on my forearms because I'm a bit of a Sasquatch, and absolutely loved the results. The pain was minimal and there was only a slight amount of redness afterwards. There was no irritation and there were no bumps. The end result: some seriously smooth skin. I definitely recommend this to anyone with sensitive skin, or people prone to skin irritation looking for a safe home hair removal product.

This smells soooooo good! It's like desert for your skin! It's sugar so smells like.. well. . Sugar! It comes in a glass jar with a smart black lid and an inner lid to stop stickiness getting onto the outer lid (very smart). Also included is 2 wooden spatulas, 1 popsicle stick size (actually it is a popsicle stick) and one bigger. I love that they've considered Smaller and larger applications with this. There's also fabric strips - quite a few too! And of course instructions! I found it a wee bit thick when I opened it so as per the instructions gave it a quick Wizz in the microwave to get it to "honey consistency" - gave it a good stir and did a test on my forearm. I love the consistency of this wax! It's smooth and glides onto the skin nicely! The strips are the right amount of grippy so are easy to use. I found this test patch great! It was virtually painless! After my test patch I had a go at my chin - I have really gross thick dark hairs that I battle on my chin and I'm sick of plucking so I'd let them grow a wee bit to have a Crack at this amazing sounding wax.... aaaand. .. pooh! No good! I think the hair needs to be quite long for this Sugar Wax to be most effective. I finished up my forearms after this and got the same result. It removed all the ones that were long but left behind anything less that possibly 7mm.... I found a little goes a long way with this, so it's fantastic that it'll last a while. I really love how painless this is, so much so that I'm going to let my leg hair grow and have a go at those - which is huge for me after a very painful attempt a few years ago, I swore I would never wax my legs again..... Clean up was a breeze! Even cold water removes excess! And ( possibly my favourite thing about this product) the strip also wash up perfectly! They look like they should be disposable but they're not! Woohoo!

UPDATE: Had a go at my legs! It was still painful but not unbearable.. I still found it left quite a few hairs behind but I just went over them with a razor and have found regrowth is still longer than just shaving. So I will keep waxing!

I got so excited when I pulled the first strip off - it was completely painless! It's easy to apply, smells wonderful, and doesn't hurt. This is my first time waxing at home, I usually go to a professional, so I would recommend this if you are in the same position as I was. However, I did find I had to go over sections as all the hair was not being pulled out. I'm not sure whether this is through inexperience, or that it was the wax? It's also very sticky, so watch out for that. I had to microwave it a couple of times to get it to the sticky consistency by the way.