1. It removed the hair without leaving me red and raw.
Once a cream has burned you, the next tube has a lot to answer for. Some women are still talking about what happened years ago:
i used to use whatever the nair product was for my upper lip. it instructed you to leave it on for 5-7 minutes but it would burn my skin even after 2 minutes.
That was the fear I brought to Meravae. I was braced for the sting, the red patch, the moment I'd regret trying another cream.
It didn't happen. My skin felt comfortable afterward. I didn't have an angry patch to cover before work.
The hair was the thing I wanted to get rid of. My skin didn't need a punishment.
2. I didn’t have to hold my breath to get rid of my chin hair.
I kept switching creams, but that awful smell kept following me. Different tube, same rotten-egg stink. And I was putting this stuff right under my nose.
I’m just trying to get a few hairs off my chin. Why does my whole bathroom have to stink? And why can I still smell it after I’ve washed it off? I don’t care how well it works. I’m not putting up with that.
Meravae is fragrance-free. But the part I cared about was what I noticed while using it: no smell I was desperate to wash away. I used it before dinner and nobody in the house knew I'd done a thing.
I wanted to remove hair. Not air out the bathroom.
3. It got the coarse hairs. The ones I bought it for.
The soft fuzz wasn't why I kept buying creams. It was the coarse ones. The wiry little hairs that survive the whole performance and still need plucking.
no matter how many times i try nair it just smells like burning skin and somehow none of my hair is removed 🙈
Cream. Rinse. Inspect. Tweezers. Somehow the thing I'd bought to make this easier had become step one of a longer job.
With Meravae, the coarse hairs I'd been checking for wiped away with the rest. I rinsed and, for once, there was nothing left to go back over.
If I still needed the tweezers, the cream hadn't finished its job. This one did.
4. Smooth should describe your skin, too.
Hair gone isn't much of a victory when your face feels tight, stripped or sore. And going back to the razor has its own version of the problem.
What I wanted from a cream was simple: get the hair off and leave skin I actually wanted to touch.
After Meravae, my skin felt soft and conditioned. No tight, shiny, stripped feeling every time I moved my mouth.
I ran my fingers over my chin because it felt good. Not because I was hunting for what it had missed.
5. I finally put the tweezers down.
Find a hair. Pluck it. Tilt toward the light. Find another. At some point you're no longer getting ready. You're conducting an inspection.
Meravae let me cover the facial area, follow the pack's timing, remove it and rinse. I didn't have to go hunting for each coarse hair afterward.
Putting the tweezers down was the result I actually wanted.
6. Another reassuring label wasn't going to convince me.
By tube seven, words like 'sensitive' and 'facial' had lost their power over me. Nair sells facial cream. Veet has facial formulas, too. Being made for a face wasn't enough to win me over.
Creams work by breaking down the hair so it can be wiped away. That's the category's basic idea. Meravae didn't invent it.
Meravae's formula is fragrance-free and includes 4% urea to help soften coarse hair. That gave me a reason to look. The experience after I rinsed gave me a reason to keep it.
Did the coarse hairs come off? Was the smell tolerable? Did my skin feel comfortable afterward?
Three questions. I wanted one cream that could answer all three.
7. One chin hair can hijack your whole day.
The time you spend removing it is one thing. The checking afterward is another. Different methods, same feeling that the job never stays finished.
That's what wears you down: checking even when you thought you were finished.
I wasn't expecting a cream to stop hair growing forever. I wanted to finish the routine without already dreading the next time.
Meravae became the tube I wanted to reach for again. After six disappointments, that meant something.
8. I'd already paid for six disappointments.
I didn't need another almost-full tube at the back of the bathroom cabinet. I needed a way out if number seven let me down, too.
The 90-day money-back guarantee was what finally got me to try it.
Judge it on the things the other creams got wrong. The hairs you actually want gone. The smell while you use it. The way your skin feels after you rinse.
You've given enough creams the benefit of the doubt. Make this one earn its place.
Patch test before use. Follow the pack directions and maximum timing. If burning or irritation occurs, remove and rinse immediately. See the current guarantee terms for refund details.