I think I've found the cure to chin hairs..

[Soitis83]

Okay, maybe this is light-hearted. But then again, maybe not?
For the last few years I have suffered with chin hair. It haf been getting so much worse in the recent months. I would find if I left it a few days, I would have at least 6 of the beggars to get rid of.
However, recently I decided I wanted to lose some weight. So I've cut out all refund sugar, eating mainly a wholefoods diet, very minimal carbs and my main source of protein is tofu....and they've vanished?! Gone. Not one. I haven't had to pluck in well over a week. Is it a coincidence? Perhaps. Or have I unintentionally found a cure? Who knows. Call me Alexander Flemming...

I'm on a diet and it has really improved my granny chin hairs too. Not specifically no refined sugar and carbs but once you've gone all high protein and 5 a day there aren't many caolires left ion my budget for carbs or sugar!

It's also helped my snoring hugely.

6?
If I leave it a few days I have a fucking beard

Do you mean the Santa Sideburns?

Interesting! I am also an addict and have given up everything you can think of (long term (15 years) and stabilised). But food is now my very serious vice. I'd like to try mounjaro but worried that one of my past vices would come back to say hello.

Whatever you do don’t ever try a ‘not eating’ diet. You have to have plenty of food regularly. Protein and leafy style vegetables.

I thought about that, but I thought I would try do it myself naturally before I put something like that in my body. I don't like the sound of some side effects either.
But like you, I just replace one thing for another. I would rather be addicted to checking the numbers on the scales and a vape (gross, I know) than food or any of the other stuff that I was addicted to.

😂 I knew there must be a reason to drink more alcohol! I mean, I know it's a stretch ... but maybe more booze would make me feel better about growing face hair that would make a 14-year-old boy proud.

OP, I was going to mention the tofu but see someone already has. I'm post-menopausal (with PCOS, it doesn't "go away" after your ovaries give up) and put Ovestin cream on my face as well as in my fanjo. It slows 'em down a bit. If your face hairs are enough to be troublesome but less determined than mine, it might even stop them for you. Your GP could agree to off-label use ... or you could lie to an online prescriber about being in menopause, but you should probably try the above-board approach first.

I use an epilator. Yes, it hurts.

Mine disappeared during pregnancy

You could look up
Three diets that are more effective than weight-loss drugs, according to doctors
on archive ph.

Apparently certain foods have a similar effect to the weight loss drugs but without the side effects.

Interesting, thank you I'll do that

I thought you were going to say sugar. I did keto and the 2 little pubes on my chin stopped growing, lol! So yeah, I can vouch for that.

It was in the Telegraph and I found it that way.

I think for me there's definitely a link between eating lots of sugar and chin hairs sprouting out of control. I have electrolysis which has beaten them into submission.

I tried the lumea but I'm pretty sure it made it worse 😞 it definitely worked everywhere else but I've heard if your facial hair is hormonal then the lumea can make it worse.

Stress seems to cause them too. I think those shots of cortisol in the body work like sugar.

I also quite like my chin hairs. I enjoy locating and stroking them and while I know some people find them depressing, I wish it was socially acceptable for women to have beards. I have thick and lustrous hair and strong facial features but a weak chin so think I’d actually suit one, sexy Rasputin vibe.

Interesting; so only grains with gluten?

Spearmint tea is the cure! I have lots of chin hairs and started drinking spearmint twice a day and I've definitely got less.

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Me too, have had them since I can remember, and been tested for PCOS, all normal.

They appear overnight! Use the torch on your phone to spot them before plucking 😉

I get the thick transparent plasticky ones, and black ones - the latter baffles me because not a single other hair on my body is darker than light brown, why are they black on my chin? What is that all about?

You are lucky. I have been on a low sugar diet, never been overweight and I have found my hairs have grown quicker since being on a diet recently, so annoying.

Diabetic here 👋 and refined carbs get turned into glucose by your body the same way sugar does. So a big plate of white pasta, gets turned into to the equivalent of 20 teaspoons of sugar 😱 so diabetics need to eat low carb (not no carb, and vegetables are carbs), if they want to reverse/control their diabetes through diet.

I don't know what the cure is for the little bastards. I started noticing them at aged 36, so I've had them for ten years. I use an epilator sometimes and have a sneaky "shave" of my face and sometimes I pluck them. I also bought one of those NoNo things but that was shite.

Snap!

Could be PCOS, having a low gi diet is meant to help so sounds like it is working for you.

You can have PCOS when overweight or skinny. I was told skinny PCOS was a little worse for fertility issues than overweight PCOS.