S*&^ P&%# F*&#! Why? Why? You've Got To Be Kidding Me!
Written: Mar 04 '01
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Pros: It's Affordable, It Smells Nice, And Doesn't Taste Half Bad.
Cons: It Doesn't Work, It's Painful, And Has Side-Effects.
The Bottom Line: Man has created pain for women for many years. Now woman is creating pain for women. This product is the worst!
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| botsybaby's Full Review: Nads No Heat Hair Removal Gel |
I bought Nad's about three months ago. I saw it on television and decided that I just had to have it. Boy was that a terrible mistake!
Nad's Advertisement & Background-
For all you people sitting at home late on a Saturday night, unable to sleep, you have most likely caught a glimpse of Nad's, along with all the many other infomercials. That's the great thing about being up that late at night, not only do you have to suffer the aggravation of not sleeping, but then you also get to be tortured by mind-numbing infomercials. If you're tired enough, bored enough, and restless enough, you may fall victim to the wonders of the infomercial. I did.
There it was, 3:00 - 4:00 am and I'm still up smoking my brains out, sipping iced tea, vegetating on the couch. Nad's comes on the television and you hear all these wonderful stories about this revolutionary product that was designed by this woman in Australia. The story itself has sucker written all over it. Sue, the woman who made Nad's has a story. Oh yes, a mother's love sparks a home remedy that's become a multi-million-a-year business. How this came to be is beyond me.
So this woman by the name of Sue Ismiel, goes and creates Nad's for her daughter. Sue is 38 years old and her daughter was 6 years old and had a hair problem. Her daughter "Natalie", had a hair problem. Although, Nad's is named after Sue's eldest daughter Nadine.
Anyway, mother Sue, was desperate to find a product that would remove the thick dark hair from her daughter's legs and arms. Sue saw how much this distressed her daughter and not only wanted to find a product that removed hair, but a product that removed the hair as painlessly as possible. Well, in my opinion she failed.
Alright, you now have the heart-felt story behind Nad's, but now it's time to reveal the claims. Nad's claims to be painless. That's the first lie. Painless, I think not! It also claims to be effective. Second lie. The results were painfully ineffective. It claims to be completely natural, no chemicals, child safe, not tested on animals, and water-soluble. That's true. They also say it looks like green toffee and tastes decent. This is true also. It is said to be easy to use. This is not true. Third lie. It is said that it can be used any where on the body. I disagree.
In the advertisement you see how Nad's works on everyone. It worked on this woman that had a beard, a woman with hairy eyebrows, a woman looking to get rid of leg hair, a man with a fuzzy back, a young gymnast girl, and even on the beach for a contest. The contest was won by Nad's, which I find amazing. It worked better in the commercial than shaving, a Nair type of product, and hot wax. It was also faster. I thought, "Oooh, this is great, all my problem are solved!". Not quite.
Testimonial after testimonial, and it began to look so clear to me that this product was the cure-all for all unwanted hair. One thing that you may notice in the commercial, if you pay really, really close attention, if that all the hair they are removing is super long, except the girl on the beach. The girl on the beach didn't have her cloth zoomed in on either. I wonder why? I didn't notice this until after I had bought the product and saw the infomercial again.
My Experience With Nad's-
Right after the infomercial went off I went to the phone and called in. The girl on the phone appeared to know what she was doing and was friendly enough. I was set, my Nad's was ordered and now all I had to do is wait until it arrived.
It arrived in a timely manner and I started reading everything, to ensure it was a pleasant and effective experience. I soaped my legs up with the prep soap that had a pleasing smell. I then dried my legs thoroughly. I went to the jar of gunk and proceeded to spread it "thinly" as indicated in the instructions. I also dipped my finger in and licked my finger. They were right, it didn't taste bad. It tasted kind of like a honey based junk candy that they stick in tubes. You know, it's like thick liquid candy. I then took one of the cloth strips that came with Nad's and placed it on my leg. I smoothed the cloth over with my hand in the direction indicated, and pulled up the opposite way, as indicated. As I pulled up this immense pain went through the area of my leg where I pulled off the cloth. I was screaming obscenities! I then looked down at my legs and saw that most of the hair was still there. How could this be? I looked at the cloth and a few scattered hairs lay on it.
I was determined though. I must have done something wrong. I was going to try it over and over, even if someone had to hand me a leather belt to bite down on. I tried it over and over and still no improvement. I eventually quit and analyzed why it wasn't working.
I then concluded that my leg hairs were not quite long enough. It said that the hairs had to be so long (1/8" to 1/4"), and my leg hairs seemed to meet the description, but I was going to let them grow more any way.
So I let them grow out for about two weeks. I wore pants every where I went and let my legs become hairy and scary. If you took the palm of your hand and rubbed in a circular motion on my legs, you probably could have made little mini dreadlocks. Trust me, they were quite long, and rather thick and dark. I'm only 1/4 Italian, but my leg hair tells it all. ha ha
Once again I sit down to unmercifully rip the hairs from my legs. This time I find a few more hairs than last time are coming off. I kept on trying, but I still wasn't getting the results I should have been getting. I then decide that it must me the temperature. Maui is so warm and humid, that maybe it's effecting the performance of Nad's. I then go up stairs into the master bedroom and turn on the air conditioner. I place the cloth down, and begin the process. I do this over and over and over. I have patches of hair missing, but there are still a few scattered hairs in the places that appear to be bald.
I must have worked at this for a good 30 to 40 minutes. I tried both legs, in different places, using Nad's thinly and thickly, pulling it in the other direction, I tried EVERYTHING.
I still didn't have the results that I wanted, or anything close to what they show in the infomercial. If that's not bad enough, there's side-effects! Approximately 30 minutes after I stopped torturing myself, my legs broke out with little red dots, and red bumps. My legs were red, irritated, and sore. I felt like my legs were sun burned, minus the sun. It was awful! This was not suppose to happen.
You think that maybe my skin in particular had a bad reaction, but the thing is my lower leg is not sensitive skin. The skin on my thighs, yes. My thighs are prone to in-grown hairs and rashes, but my lower leg is not. I could probably shave my lower leg with lighter fluid as a lubricant and not much would happen.
Well, maybe that isn't convincing enough. A family member of mine that's a female decided to try it out as well. You know us Italian girls, plenty of hair to dispose of. So she tried it out. I did exactly what the instructions said and the hair came off! Yes, the hair came off, but I had to go over it again because it doesn't work the first time you lift up. She screamed when I pulled up on the cloth but what happened after that was a nightmare. I did this to my relative/family member's back. She had a small patch of fine hair on her lower back. It wasn't anything hideous, but it was medium brown in color and it needed to go. About 5 minutes after the hair pulling her back swelled up with huge welts! It looked like bee stings! It was so bad that she had me take pictures of it in case it got worse and landed her in the hospital. It didn't get too much worse, she never ended up in the hospital, but it was very scary what happened. It took a couple of days for it to clear up too. When you think of it, Nad's is like a torture device.
Yet again, this experience shows that Nad's really isn't that effective, even on fine hair. It also shows that Nad's can be kind of dangerous. After that last experience, I knew that this product was no suitable for any part of my body. They say it can be used any where. What a joke! I can just imagine what would have happened if I was stupid enough to use it under my arms, or worse yet, my bikini line! I think I'd rather take my chances huffing gas!
Nad's is suppose to be better than hot wax because you don't have to heat it. I think Nad's is very temperature picky. You need to have the right temperature. I do think that the first time I used it, the room temperature was too warm for it. I also think that if you aren't fast about using the cloth that your body heat makes it lose its effectiveness. You need to be quick to get the best results, which were not good results or anything worth mentioning.
Nad's won't tell you this, but the product is sloppy. In my opinion it looks like taffy, but it's more like honey. Have you ever spread honey on something? If so, you know it's not the easiest thing to spread and it's difficult to work with. Nad's is the same way. It's sloppy. It's like taking honey out of jar. You end of slopping it all over the jar no matter how careful you are. There was also always a string of Nad's when you dip the stick type thing in the jar and lift up to bring it to your leg. Even after sitting there waiting for some of it to drip of and rolling the stick to break contact with the rest of the green ooze.
The Technical Junk-
Nad's is chemical free, all natural, child safe, and not tested on animals. It's suppose to cling to the hair only, but I find it clings very much to the skin, just like wax. It's suppose to be painless, but for me and the other person who tried it with me, it was anything but. It's suppose to be used on the body anywhere, which I wouldn't recommend. It's suppose to be quick, but I found it just as time consuming as shaving. It's suppose to be easy, but I think tweezing every single hair out of my legs would be easier, and less painful for that matter. It doesn't need to be heated, but I do think temperature plays a big role in the results of Nad's.
Supposedly you can re-use the cloth strip over and over. I found that I had to use use more than one strip on each leg, because it starts losing any little bit of effectiveness within minutes.
I also found that the little bit of hair that I was able to remove didn't grow in any slower, softer, or finer. It's suppose to do that, but I didn't see any slight change in the hair growth. Nad's is suppose to eventually kill off the hair, leaving you with hairless legs. I've been tweezing my eyebrows for years, some of the hairs don't grow back, but most of them are still there every two days, waiting for me to pluck them once again. I bet Nad's works the same way. Only some of the hairs disappear after years of ripping them out. My father is a guy, therefore he has never shaved his legs, nor would he want to, but after 30 years or so of wearing jeans, the hair on his legs has been rubbed off permanently in spots. You may get better results by growing your leg hairs and wearing jeans for a decades, before you try Nad's.
Nad's is affordable. It cost me $29.95 for a jar. I called within the time they specified and received a jar double the size of the normal amount. They consider the double sized jar to be a full years supply with average use. Along with Nad's I also received a 3.4 oz of prep soap, smoothing lotion (2.5 oz), and half a dozen white cloths. I think it also came with a video, but don't quote me on that part. One thing that they claim is that the whole package that you are receiving for $29.95 is valued at over $60.00 (what a sales pitch!). It might be valued at that, but to me the stuff was worthless.
Nad's itself is has the following ingredients: Honey, molasses, fructose, vinegar, lemon juice, water, alcohol and food dye.
The soap is to be used before you use the Nad's to remove any dirt or ail from your skin. It is kiwi-chamomile soap and has a pleasant smell. It's light green, round in shape, and on the soap it says "French Milled Soap", "Extra Fine", "Perfumed".
The package also included along with the soap a 2.5 oz (73g) bottle of lotion. The lotion is Kiwi-Chamomile like the soap. It says "Soothing Lotion", "For Unbelievably Smooth Skin" on the front of the bottle. On the back it lists the ingredients as: "Purified water, safflower oil, glycerine, stearate, emulsifying wax NF, chamomile extract, comfrey extract, tocopheryl acetate, retinyl palmitate, ascorbic acid, phospholipids, sphingolipids, polysorbate 60 carbomer, triethanolamine, methylparaben, propylparaben, phenoxyethanol, and fragrance.
You get to keep the smoothing lotion, and the prep soap. So that is about the only nice thing I can say about Nad's. The free gifts are nice, but they aren't that great. Here it is, three months later and I still have both, practically untouched.
Contact Information (Only if you're stupid)-
Toll Free Number From Infomercial: 1-800-946-7373
Toll Free Number On Web Site: 1-800-653-9797 (placing orders only)
Nad's web site http://www.nads.com
Conclusion-
I would not recommend this product to anyone. It is the worst hair removal product on the market to date. It doesn't do much of anything it claims it does. Even the Epilady is better than this. Epilady is a dream compared to Nad's I would advise against even trying Nad's. Myself and a family member tried this product and both of us had a bad experience. I know it isn't just me. Seeing as 43 people have reviewed this product so far, and only 2 of them recommend it, you know it's an omen. Stay clear of Nad's and your skin will stay clear and healthy. You'll save yourself a lot of trouble and you also won't have make a run to the post office to return the product.
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Not gifted, moody, chronic complainer, malcontent, emotional-basket case. That pretty much sums me up.
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