Tria laser is a device which has been approved by the US FDA to be used for laser hair removal at home. The parts of the body on which the device can be used include the legs, feet, bikini line, hands, underarms, chest and back.

This laser works by making use of beams that are produced by the heat of lights. The laser fires the beams to the unwanted hair follicles in order to deactivate them. There are 5 settings that can be adjusted with the laser.

The laser is targeted to those people who possess light tones of skin. This includes people with white skin, beige skin, ivory skin and the light brown skin. Before it works, the Tria laser will first do a test to determine whether the skin tone of the patient is fair enough to be fired with the Tria laser.

For this test purpose, the Tria laser makes use of a specially designed sensor. If, after the test, the skin which is tested does not pass the green light of the Tria laser device, the device will be locked and thus become impossible to use. This is to prevent the Tria laser from being used for dark skin since it may cause blistering, scarring and even a burning effect on such skin.

There is a chance that the patient may feel pain in using the laser but that depends on the skin type the patient possesses and the setting which is used on the laser device. The higher the setting, the more heat the laser produces. More heat means more pain, if not discomfort.

This laser is also most recommended for use on people with dark hair. The reason behind this is because dark hair possesses dark pigments and the Tria laser targets these dark pigments to allow it to work most effectively.

Nevertheless, to be really effective in use, more than one treatment may be required due to the different stages of the hair growth. There is the growing stage, the resting stage and the shedding stage.

When this laser device was very first introduced to the general public in the early part of the year 2008, and a price as high as US $995 was charged by the manufacturer. But then in February 2009, the manufacturer released a new model Tria laser device to replace the original device. This resulted in 20% reduction in the price to US $795, even though the new model worked twice faster than the original one – twice as bigger bang for your buck. And as of November 2009, the price once again fell to as low US $595. The price, together with the simplicity of use, makes this laser hair removal device ideal for home use.

The manufacturer that produces the Tria laser device claims that the device is able to release more than 90,000 laser pulses. That means there will be around 300 charges, each of which delivers 300 pulses. These many pulses are claimed sufficient by the manufacturer to treat the whole body entirely, even for women.

Read more at The Hair Facts – All you need to know about hair removal.