The notion of beauty has always been in flux, shaped by culture and time. Historical attitudes toward body hair reveal a tapestry of changing perceptions. Ancient societies like Egypt and Greece ...

Female hormones called oestrogens and progesterone prevent the effect of androgens to some extent. There are many reasons why your daughter may seem to have excess body hair or hirsutism ...

Dr Merran Toerien teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of York and she studied the removal of female body hair as part of her PHD. Of the 700 women she interviewed only 20 ...