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Is it safe to wax legs with red spider veins?
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Yes: Waxing your legs will have no affect on your spider veins or vice versa.
Answered 3/26/2013
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Yes: Waxing wont effect spider veins because they are beneath the skin. Certainly if your skin surface is broken down and weeping you shouldnt be waxing with or without spider veins.
Answered 9/28/2016
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Waxing/spider veins: It is safe to wax legs if you have either red or blue spider veins.
Answered 10/1/2016
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