OLD CULTURAL HUMAN HISTORY

Nobody knows who the tweezers invented. It is clear that she is already very old. Numerous excavations of the younger Bronze Age prove that there is already a universal small tool for the hair and beard trimminggave, at least remotely to one tweezers remind. As the real mother of today’s known tweezers but applies the tweezers the ancient Romans. True to the quotation attributed to Napoleon, „The history of Rome is the history of the whole world“, many everyday objects of modern times have their origins in ancient Rome.

The Roman citizens from what one would say today: upper middle class laid much value on a neat appearance. Hair on the face or below the neck was perceived by the women as disturbing and unsightly. So they moved in the public bath houses with the tweezers and a resin-honey mixture to body. This forerunner of the modern „Waxing“ then also subjected some men who wanted to free themselves from too many hair on the chest or shoulders.

MANY APPLICATION AREAS

Tweezers are used in many areas today. A classic is certainly the field of philately. The knowledgeable collector does not simply grab a stamp like this with his hand. Today tweezers are also of great significance in the broad field of electronics, especially microelectronics. There are very special products such as the vacuum tweezers. It serves to grasp the so-called wafer, a thin slice in semiconductor technology.

Such a special tweezers, which works on the principle of suction, of course you do not need in cosmetics. After all, this is about quite profane things like hair removal. Whereby there are also different approaches with different tweezers (more on this under the variants). The fine jewelery making in real craftsmanship would be inconceivable without the tweezers. And what many probably do not even know: Even in one of the oldest and most important economic sectors of the manufacturing industry, the textile industry, is not all about machines and computers, the good old tweezers still performs here in manual refinishing still excellent services.

MANY DIFFERENT VARIANTS

Usually tweezers consist of two joined pieces of metal that move towards each other under light pressure. Depending on the application, other materials such as plastics or ceramics are used in the processing. In the cosmetics industry very light tweezers made of aluminum are preferred.
Tweezers are available in many different designs: with pointed, round or even square ends. There are straight or curved and for special applications also specially angled tweezers. There are cutting and holding tweezers, which as the name implies have a different function: the cutting tweezers is often made of hard carbon steel and suitable for the production of jewelry for cutting thin gold and silver wires, the tethers, also known as cross-tweezers, has special Gripping jaws, which should hold something only.

Although one should not be misled by names as a user: the surgical forceps is not only suitable for surgeons, is used there only often, hence the name. In this special form two gripping jaws have interlocking teeth. This has the advantage of being able to exert a stronger pull without actually squeezing the tweezers. The downside is that even vulnerable structures such as nerves and blood vessels can be accidentally destroyed by the sharp teeth. To more cautiously grasp such structures, the anatomical tweezers are better suited. It captures vulnerable structures more gently, but also has the disadvantage that they are less secure to grip, so that a strong pull as in surgical is not possible. Finally, there are special anti-magnetic and acid-resistant tweezers, which are of course less suitable for normal household use, but more for the medical or microelectronic.

To be aware of

It always depends on the application, which tweezers provides optimal service here. If you just want to pluck a few annoying hairs out of your eyebrows, you’ll be well served with high-quality stainless steel tweezers made, for example, by Purebello, May or Pfeilring. And those who have special wishes, such as the removal of vermin in pets, can resort to specially made tick tweezers such as Vettler Industries or bluelNOX. Even those who are looking for special pluckers for ingrown facial hair will soon find what they are looking for and can treat themselves to a very professional product from Beauty Luxus. Anyone who knows exactly what the tweezers should be used for, can basically go wrong and will quickly find what they are looking for among the many offers from renowned brand manufacturers.