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I read about something called SHR (super hair removal) that, if what they say is true, holds a lot of promise. There are no inexpensive home SHR devices I know of yet. It's hard to find a neutral, detached article about the approach. It involves using a series of gentle light pulses to gradually heat up hair to the temperature when the chemistry of life stops working. This prevents heat damage to surrounding tissue. There are rave reviews that lack details. I imagine if it was great, it would have steamrolled other hair removal techniques out of the market in a few months since it permanently works on more skin tones and hair colors than laser or IPL. Maybe it hasn't been submitted for FDA approval. Maybe established business interests are holding it back. Maybe it's a scam that's too good to be true. I haven't found any links denouncing it though.

I've been aggressively using a home IPL machine for 8 weeks. It is helping with epilated body hair and making steady progress with shaved facial hair. I found that cooling the shaved skin before flashing it with powerful light pulses was the key to getting results on dense chin and mustache growth. Pain went down to zero with pre-cooling. It was alarmingly hot without it. To speed things up and stop condensation, I ordered a cheap skin cooler (Amazon link) to experiment with. Maybe close shaving, cooling (I use a small freezer pack meant for igloo coolers now), and IPL would have effects on the strong body hair you describe.

The conventional wisdom about IPL is that it is a waste of money that doesn't work. The best it can achieve is some hair reduction, not full removal. In my experience it works well but slowly. I have to overlap the flashes, immediately exfoliate between shaving and IPLing, and do treatments every 3 days. It's nice to see spots of pink, clear skin open up and expand. I have recently started doing daily beard IPL. Only 2.5% of the 350,000 flashes have been used so far.

One epilator tip said to pinch the skin and run the tweezers along the crest of the hill. That should work better than epilating relaxed skin. Stretching skin helps prevent the shocking and alarming hair grabbing feeling. Thankfully hair gets easier to pull every time.

I wish I had simple answers. I've had to go outside the rules and recommendations to deal with light, straight body hair. I would just clipper it down if the tips didn't get so bluntly cut and rough feeling. The wonderful, feminizing rewards of smooth skin have been worth the extra time epilation takes. My sense is more hard work of independent experimentation lies ahead for all males interested in large scale home hair removal. It is a violent thing to do. Hopefully the weak point in "the enemy" will be found some day. Electrolysis is apparently the gold standard, but it's way out of economic reach for most people.

For me I usually use these. I just buy them at Walgreens, but they look pretty much the same. I have been meaning to look into chemical exfoliation, but have not had the motivation yet lol.