I Used To Shave My Chin Hair 3 Times A Week Until I Finally Found This.

I would spend 15 or 20 minutes making sure every hair was gone, then catch myself checking my reflection in the car mirror on the way to work because I was convinced I had missed one. 

Sometimes the hair was too short for tweezers, and I'd keep trying to grab it with my fingernails until my fingertips started hurting because leaving it there felt impossible.

I became so aware of my chin that if someone looked at my face for a second longer than normal, I immediately assumed they were staring at my facial hair, and it really made me nervous.

The most frustrating part was listening to people tell me to "just pluck it" or "just get laser" because they had no idea how much of my life was already controlled by those few hairs. 

They never saw the constant mirror checking, the anxiety when someone stood too close to me or the mental exhaustion that came from feeling like I had to inspect my face every single day.

For years, I genuinely believed I just needed a better way to remove my facial hair.

I had no idea that every solution I was trying was focused on removing the hair I could already see instead of dealing with why it kept coming back in the first place.

It was only after I mentioned my struggles  to a dermatologist I met at a women's health event in Cape Town that everything changed.

We ended up talking during one of the breaks, and when she asked what my biggest struggle with PCOS was, I immediately said

She smiled because, according to her, I wasn't asking an unusual question. 

She told me she sees women every week who shave, wax, tweeze or laser but never address the root cause of why they have to do that over and over again.

She explained that unwanted facial hair in many women with PCOS is largely influenced by androgen hormones.

These hormones continuously stimulate certain hair follicles to produce thicker, darker facial hair, which means removing the visible hair doesn't stop the follicle from receiving the same signal to grow another one

So while you shave or wax, the androgen signals encourage new hair growth and that's why sometimes the hair comes back thicker.

She said, "As long as you only focus on removing the hair, you'll keep repeating the same routine. You have to address what's causing it to keep growing back." 

Then she mentioned a plant called Cyperus rotundus because it contains naturally occurring compounds that have shown anti-androgenic activity in laboratory and clinical research. 

I had never even heard the term before.

She encouraged me to read the published research myself instead of simply taking her word for it because she knew I'd already spent years trying products that promised far more than they could deliver.

True to her word, there were several published researches about the efficacy of Cyperus Rotundus.

The oil performed comparably to laser overall within that study. It also showed stronger results on white hair, which laser often struggles to target. 

That honesty made the research feel more believable than the products promising permanent results in a few days.

I spent the next few evenings looking for a facial product built around Cyperus rotundus and designed for consistent use after hair removal.

That search eventually led me to Celes Cyperus Rotundus Oil from Celes

So I ordered it

I didn't expect much if I'm being honest.

I'd already spent years getting my hopes up over products that promised big results and delivered the exact same disappointment.

The first week, I didn't notice anything different. I kept telling myself to be patient.

By the second week, something started to change. The hair coming in felt thinner and softer. I ran my fingers over my chin the way I always did, checking, and for the first time, what I felt wasn't as sharp and coarse as it used to be.

By the third week, I only shaved once. The hair was taking longer to come back than before. Some mornings I'd check and there was barely anything there at all.

The following month, I stopped reaching for the razor out of habit. I'd go 2, sometimes 3 weeks without needing it. When I did check, the hair was barely visible, I could only feel short and very thin strands of it

I know exactly how frustrating it feels to spend years believing you'll just have to live with unwanted facial hair forever because that's exactly where I was.

If you're tired of planning your mornings around shaving, checking every mirror you walk past, and wondering whether people are noticing your chin before they notice you, I genuinely think Celes is worth looking into. 

But It does sell out because it comes in small batches, and the plant's hard to get. So if it's in stock as you read this, that's your window

The hardest part about unwanted facial hair isn't the 5 minutes you spend shaving.

It's the hundreds of small moments that slowly chip away at your confidence.

It's how sometimes you feel less feminine because of it. 

It's being so self conscious about it during social interactions that you think the other person is looking at it.

I convinced myself for years that this was just part of having PCOS.

Now I realize I had simply never been shown a different approach.