Abstract Hair is simple in structure, but has important function. Throughout history hair has been an important symbol as indicator of gender, social, religious and professional status.. Even today hair continues to be an important part of self expression and self identity and it is also a universals symbol of youth. As according to the day old adage: Too much of anything is fit for nothing. Unwanted hair growth (facial and body hair) can cause embarrassment, and it is a biggest problem for the women in the present day society. Most of the women are suffering with this problem due to trending reasons. The present life style of the people is effecting to its maximum on the health of the people. Women develop excessive body (or) facial hair due to higher than normal levels of male hormones. Certain medical conditions cause women to produce too many androgens, causing male pattern hair growth and unwanted male characteristics such as deep voice. Though this doesn’t cause any problem to the person but it effects the social moving, so most of the women are more worried about it and rush to Doctors, beauty parlors and other cosmetic and skin specialists. In view of the growing incidene of clinical conditions contributing to Hirsutism especially among younger generation girls and also feared side effects of the currently available depilatory agents in the market an attempt has been made in this article to enumerate lomasathana yogas described in Ayurvedic classics.
Keywords: Hormones; Cosmetics; Lomasathana Yogas.
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