Thread: Nasal hair -- burning tapers

Ear candling is a holistic method, that helps with wax but also helps with "clarity, thought and inner peace" or something similar. If I had to lump it in with similar "treatments" I'd say aromatherapy and yogic flying (the art of yoga and jumping while cross-legged in a seated position at the same time. Also quite good for inner clarity.)

There was a time when folks thought the hair was hollow and important fluids would drain out the end of each hair, so the hairs were singed after each cut.

Ed Jeffers, who runs edjeffersbarbermuseum.com is a guy who's been involved with "everything barber" his entire life. I visited his museum in Columbus Ohio and was floored by his collection. He's demonstrated the above process of singeing (sp) hairs on the Discovery Channel so perhaps an email to him would be helpful.

Ed's got about 50 barber chairs, dating from the 1700's to the early 1900's. About 50 barber poles, hundreds if not thousands of mugs, razors, bowls, scissors, strops and brushes. On top of that, he's got a collection of older or just plain strange barbering tools from the time when barbers were also the dentist and surgeon. Blood letting, blood cupping, electronic head massagers, rotary combs, just about anything that a barber has touched, he's got.

For those interested, he runs the museum on his own time with his own money. You need to call to make an appointment, but there is no charge for the service. He's a great old guy with a story for every single item in his museum.

Dicovery Channel, National Geographic, Playboy, all of the major players have done photo shoots in his museum. He now has entire barber shops willed to him, from barbers that he's never even met. They want their work to be remembered, not just sold off by their grandkids.

So yeah, getting back on topic, uhm, I would say, maybe try a ladies cigarette, like a virginia slim. Of course, you'll have to swing your hips when you smoke it!

Good luck,

Thanks Matt. I'll contact him and post what he tells me here. I think I need to wake myself up and be coherent before I do that though as this is my first post of the day, over the first cup of morning coffee.

I though the word candle figured in that earwax thing I mentioned. As a matter of fact, I seem to remember seeing these ear candle thingies at a new age/metaphysical bookstore once. I have a friend who's into crystals and such and occasionally accompany him on his crystal hunts. I haven't yet gotten him to go along on a razor hunt since I only recently mentioned my RAD which he seems to think is a bit odd. This coming from a man who soaks his crystals in mineral water and sets them out in the moonlight to "recharge". Well, to each his own I s'pose. At least with my odd habit I can remain clean shaven! Let's see him do THAT with a quartz sphere.

I just did the ear candling last week. Incredible. Imagine a teaspoon full of ear wax coming out of your ear. I can hear better now than when I was a kid.

I also us a Neti pot religiously. Now there is a blast to clean you out.

I think this process is way different and much closer to Nenads description.

If you were to try this at home I'd use a long wooden match, light the end (not the sulfer side) and let it burn a minute, blow it out and then let it cool down some. Wave it between applications if it get too cool.

I'd use it on my ears first and get lots of practice. The last thing you want is your nasal hair on fire, you could do some serious damage to your nasal cavity.

The only reference I can find is on here :- http://www.thisistravel.co.uk/travel...printable=true near the bottom see Turkish Shave, this is what I experienced, definitely a taper and a naked flame, very quickly touched to singe the hair . Has anyone ever put there arm to near to a gas ring ? the hair singes off before you even realise you are too close, this is what happens, you don't feel anything but the hairs are gone ! Only downside is the smell , but this is gone in seconds .

Cheers

Dunk

I didn't get around to experimenting yet, but I will keep you gentlemen posted when I do.

Originally Posted by AFDavis11

I also us a Neti pot religiously. Now there is a blast to clean you out.

I have used the Neti method a couple of times, it's a great way to clean your nasal passages. It's surprising how much junk came out the first time I did it...

Nenad

Here's a photo of a barber using a wax taper to singe a customer's hair-

http://www.moderngent.com/site/askthebarber_v.php

Thanks for the pic. Where can you pick one of those up or how would you go about making one? Right now I'm tempted to use q-tips dipped in alcohol.

Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

I remember somebody talking about having their nasal and ear hair burned off with a burning taper in a Turkish barber-shop. Does anyone here do this or know how it's done (like where those tapers can be obtained or at least what kind of wood it is and how it's treated and the procedure itself)? I wanna become independent of the electric trimmer.

Hmmm...are you sure this was an elective procedure? Maybe you heard about it news as a new form of torture????