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Could plucking your armpit hairs make them grow slower? would they eventually thin out and stop growing?

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Dr. Marsha Davis answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Unfortunately not: That would be s wonderful thing for lots of people if only it would work that way. Laser hair removal is about the closest thing you will get to stoping the hair from not coming back.

Dr Godley agreed

Answered 9/1/2013

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