The ruling on using hair removal products for the face, arms, and legs
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The questioner:
What is the ruling on some of the substances that women use to remove the hair on the face, arms, and legs?
The Shaykh:
A little. Yes, I repeat it for you.
The questioner:
What is the ruling on some of the substances that women use to remove the hair on the face, arms, legs, and elsewhere?
The Shaykh:
If the substances do not contain any impurity and are not intoxicating, there is nothing wrong with removing the hair from the arms and legs. As for the face, no, except if there is something extra, like a mustache or a beard, that is removed. As for the normal hair, no, such as plucking the eyebrows; plucking the eyebrows is not permissible. Yes.
The questioner:
Number.
The Shaykh:
The same applies to the eyebrows, removing the eyebrows, yes.
The questioner:
The hair of the armpits and the pubic area.
The Shaykh:
They said, and the hands, there is nothing wrong with it.
The questioner:
I mean a person.
The Shaykh:
No, no movement.
What is the ruling on some of the substances that women use to remove the hair on the face, arms, and legs?
The Shaykh:
A little. Yes, I repeat it for you.
The questioner:
What is the ruling on some of the substances that women use to remove the hair on the face, arms, legs, and elsewhere?
The Shaykh:
If the substances do not contain any impurity and are not intoxicating, there is nothing wrong with removing the hair from the arms and legs. As for the face, no, except if there is something extra, like a mustache or a beard, that is removed. As for the normal hair, no, such as plucking the eyebrows; plucking the eyebrows is not permissible. Yes.
The questioner:
Number.
The Shaykh:
The same applies to the eyebrows, removing the eyebrows, yes.
The questioner:
The hair of the armpits and the pubic area.
The Shaykh:
They said, and the hands, there is nothing wrong with it.
The questioner:
I mean a person.
The Shaykh:
No, no movement.
Source
فتاوى الحج 1410 هـ - 10 أخرى — archive.org (3:22)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.
