Sugaring Hair Removal CIDESCO Course and Certification

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Sugaring Hair Removal Theory and Technique Course

CIDESCO Endorsed  ●  Employer Trusted  ●  Globally Respected
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Follow international beauty standards with this verified body sugaring hair removal course. Plus, receive lifetime access to our Resource Library and Technique Tutorials. Upon completion, you will be added to a database of verified practitioners and receive a stamped certificate and badge.

Course duration: 12–16 hours.

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BECOME A VERIFIED SUGARING PRACTITIONER

Step into your career fully equipped and primed for success.

Master basic to advanced techniques

Follow simple step-by-step video tutorials, audio with text lessons, and downloadable diagrams to help you master the hand application method while reducing waste.

Achieve CIDESCO-endorsement status

Follow international beauty protocols with the endorsed sugaring curriculum by CIDESCO International, the world standard for beauty and spa therapy in over 40 countries and 5 continents.

Leap ahead of the competition

Finish the program ready to market yourself with complete marketing support. With over 50+ resources and growing, you'll be able to start promoting and growing your business immediately.

WHO IS CIDESCO INTERNATIONAL?

CIDESCO is a prestigious and globally recognized authority in beauty and spa therapy education. With multiple accredited post-secondary diploma programs, CIDESCO sets the international gold standard for professional excellence. Its educational programs are formally recognized by national education boards across America, Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.

Graduates of this program will be able to showcase a CIDESCO-endorsed certificate and request a hard copy version.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Introduction to Sugaring: Benefits, Promotion, and Selling Points
  • Anatomy of Hair and Skin: Key Factors, Disorders, and Infections
  • Client Consultation: Conducting Effective and Personalized Assessments
  • Establishing a Clean, Hygienic, and Sterile Environment
  • Equipment and Supplies: Types of Sugar Paste and Their Best Uses
  • Blending Sugar Pastes for Optimal Results
  • Techniques for Each Body Area (Optional add-on: Intimate)
  • Treating and Preventing Ingrown Hairs: Best Practices
  • Common Issues and Solutions: Troubleshooting Techniques
  • Estimated Treatment Times by Body Area
  • Pricing Recommendations for Each Treatment Area
  • Bonus: Marketing Tips and Strategies for Success

After completing your sugaring hair removal certificate, you can find career opportunities in:

Salaries typically range from $30,000 to $75,000+ USD, depending on region and experience.

Day spas or salons

Wellness centers

Destination resorts

Business ownership

Ordering Supplies

Proof of enrollment is provided, allowing you to order from top professional manufacturers across the globe while in training. Upon request, we may provide suggestions based on your location and needs.

This training is product-neutral—so even if a supplier closes, changes their formula, or simply isn’t the right fit for you, you will forever maintain your certification.

GAIN LIFETIME ACCESS TO THE RESOURCE LIBRARY AND VIDEOS

Start building your business right away with our complete library of editable marketing materials, forms, and support resources.

Our ever-growing collection of ¹Canva templates is designed specifically for the sugaring hair removal industry. You’ll find professional photography from our own team, carefully selected stock imagery, and ready-to-use assets that save you hours of work.

Easily customize each template with your own logo, brand colors, and text to fit your business perfectly. Plus, you’ll have lifetime access to our Technique Tutorials—always available in one convenient place whenever you need them.

Marketing can be time-consuming and expensive. With our resources, you can invest in credible education while setting your business up for lasting success.

INCLUDED WITH ENROLLMENT (Retails for $449)

Download and post as is, or customize them to suit your brand identity!

Educate your clients about the benefits of sugaring, or promote your services with signage built for home printers. Tip: If you own a Canva Pro subscription, you can resize these for larger formats.

Promote your sugaring service with our completely editable and printable brochure template. Save on having to hire an expensive designer, which can cost $500 to $2000+.

Six beautiful templates featuring different styles of business cards. These are specifically tailored for beauty industry use.

Collect the right information from your clients and obtain their signatures to consent to treatments. We provide ready-to-go templates, in addition to versions formatted for iPad/Tablet use.

Promote all of your sugaring services with a beautifully formatted service menu that includes imagery and a pricing section.

Help your clients achieve smooth, blemish-free skin by emailing or printing this treatment schedule for them.

Launching a new sugaring service? This checklist can help ensure you have all of the necessities needed for a smooth start.

Don't see what you need? Our students can even submit requests! Whether it's a new poster or a social media post — we got you covered!

Bundle enrollments also receive exclusive access to intimate sugaring-related resources.

CEO & Head of Sugaring Education

Aimee Kellerman

Aimee is a renowned sugaring expert with nearly two decades of experience in the skincare industry. She is the visionary force behind four flourishing sugaring companies and is a featured Sugaring Judge in the upcoming 2025-2026 Skin Games, one of the largest international events for beauty professionals.

As one of the few internationally recognized and third-party verified sugaring certificate programs, Aimee oversees and leads education efforts, ensuring alignment with CIDESCO International's curriculum standards.

Previously, Aimee founded the 5-star, celebrity-frequented spa, SugarMe Esthetics Sweden. She also co-founded Sugaring Canada and Savvy Sugaring Sweden, two regional distributors of premium products and hands-on education companies.

With a global mandate, Aimee leads qualified educators who teach at cosmetology schools and private practices. Her achievements are supported by a commitment to continual learning, demonstrated by her multiple certifications and status as a licensed esthetician and advanced skin therapist.

Plan selection: ONLINE CERTIFICATIONS**

Save by paying in full or choose to make split payments

Enjoy course access for a period of six months with lifetime access to technique tutorial videos.

Bundle and Save or Pay Over 6 Months

Flexible bundle and payment options available.

From $ 230

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  • ✔️ Explore other Certification bundle options
  • ✔️ Choose a flexible 6-month payment plan on certification and bundles

Core Certification Only

Certification in body sugaring (excluding intimate).

$ 430 USD x 3

Enroll in course
  • ✔️ Enroll in the course: Sugaring Hair Removal: Theory and Technique.
  • ✔️ Lifetime Access to the "Resource Library"
  • ✔️ Employers can verify your certificate authenticity and credential
  • ✔️ Bonus advice and calculations for entrepreneurs
  • ✔️ CIDESCO-endorsed and accredited Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program.
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Popular

Mastery Bundle

Full certification, including advanced training in male and female intimate sugaring.

$ 589 USD x 3

Enroll in bundle
  • ✔️ Includes three (3) courses:
  • (1) Sugaring Hair Removal: Theory and Technique, (2) Expert Brazilians, and (3) Mastering Manzilians.
  • ✔️ Lifetime Access to the "Resource Library", including intimate-related content
  • ✔️ Employers can verify your certificate authenticity and credential
  • ✔️ Bonus advice and calculations for entrepreneurs
  • ✔️ CIDESCO-endorsed and accredited Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program.

More Bundle Options

Flexible bundle and payment options available.

From $1195

View More Options
  • ✔️ Explore other Certification bundle options
  • ✔️ Choose a flexible 6-month payment plan on certification and bundles

Core Certification Only

Certification in body sugaring (excluding intimate).

$1290

$ 1195 USD

Enroll in course
  • ✔️ Enroll in the course: Sugaring Hair Removal: Theory and Technique.
  • ✔️ Lifetime Access to the "Resource Library"
  • ✔️ Employers can verify your certificate authenticity and credential
  • ✔️ Bonus advice and calculations for entrepreneurs
  • ✔️ CIDESCO-endorsed and accredited Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program.
Best
Value

Mastery Bundle

Full certification, including advanced training in male and female intimate sugaring.

$2093

$ 1644 USD

Enroll in bundle
  • ✔️ Includes three (3) courses:
  • (1) Sugaring Hair Removal: Theory and Technique, (2) Expert Brazilians, and (3) Mastering Manzilians (Value of $2093).
  • ✔️ Lifetime Access to the "Resource Library", including intimate-related content.
  • ✔️ Employers can verify your certificate authenticity and credential
  • ✔️ Bonus advice and calculations for entrepreneurs
  • ✔️ CIDESCO-endorsed and accredited Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program.

Trusted by students around the world.

See what our alumni have to say about our courses:

The learning materials were easy to understand and the overall experience was very educational. It helped boost my confidence and understanding of why I was getting stuck.

Stephanye
Alumni

In this course, you learn every step from preparations, hygiene, sugaring all body parts, and aftercare and why. Highly recommend it to everyone.

Maria
Spa owner

This theory part of this course was extremely in-depth. I’m so appreciative of all of it because it really equipped me for my practicals. I went in feeling very confident on the first attempt!

Kenisha
Alumni

The course was very thorough, and the videos were very high quality and easy to follow. You could watch them on repeat. The assessments after each module helped lock in the theory.

Damali
Alumni

High quality and super informative course. Aimee is a great educator and the course really covered everything you need to master your skills in sugaring! 5/5! ⭐️

Gabriella
Alumni

Always good to freshen up your skills and also for beginners. They will get a super start in their sugaring career and be very confident after this course.

Maria
Alumni

The course was in-depth and I appreciate the time that was put into each segment. I would definitely recommend this as a first-time entry into aesthetics.

Clean Aesthetics
Spa owner

The videos are very detailed and the theory is simplified so that beginners can really understand and be confident carrying out any sugaring service. ❤️

Kimberly
Alumni

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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We offer the only sugaring certification course to be endorsed by CIDESCO International, the world standard for spa and beauty therapy.

An endorsement from CIDESCO means that they have reviewed the course and it meets their high standards of education. The course is also listed on their website as an eligible Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program.

By choosing our programs, you are investing in better education and training.  

  • The videos are professionally filmed from various angles to ensure you receive the best viewership experience. Subtitles are also added to help you catch every word.
  • In each lesson, we share videos, diagrams, and text, accompanied by audio, to help you best absorb the content.
  • A body sugaring tutorial is provided for each body part listed. We sugar both men and women. 
  • At the end of the program, we will provide you with marketing and business support and advice. This includes social media posts, printable signage, valuable forms,  and even staff protocols.

We teach the hand positions methodology in our courses.

For context, there are two broadly known sugaring technique styles:

1. Sugaring with hand positions

2. Sugar-waxing

With the hand position methodology, you avoid the use of single-use items such as strips, strips and chemical wax removers that are involved in sugar-waxing.

By using the hand position techniques taught in our courses, practitioners will lower their environmental impact, while reducing the costs associated with the service. 

Supplies: Sugar paste (medium or smooth), drying powder, cleanser, moisturizer, nitrile gloves

Equipment: Sugar warmer (dual slot preferred), massage table or treatment bed

Optional: Body tonic mist, lightweight/soothing oil, spatula

Note: Depending on your room temperature, we may also suggest having a softer or firmer paste on hand.


After you enroll, we’ll provide official enrollment documentation that professional manufacturers require to place orders.

We’re happy to recommend trusted suppliers based on your region, or you're welcome to use your own preferred sugar paste. This training is brand-neutral and compatible with any professional-quality product.

Yes, most of the courses offered a certificate-eligible. Successfully completing a "certification course" will earn you a certificate, which can be printed & framed.

We break courses into small bite-sized learnings using a mix of live-client videos, infographics, and short quizzes.

You will follow a guided process that ensures you pick up the right skills at the right time.

The amount of time it takes to complete a course depends on your level of commitment. However, we suggest the below times to allow users to take their time and best absorb the content.

Time estimations:

  1. Body sugaring: 12 to 16 hours
  2. Expert Brazilians: 3 to 4 hours
  3. Mastering Manzilians: 3 to 4 hours

We grant you unlimited access to the course for a period of six months. 

After this period you will continue to retain your access to the "Student Resource Library".

The certificate issued will be in the name of the account holder. For this reason, purchases are for individual use only.  

However, spa owners can purchase courses for staff by visiting our "Group Rates" pricing page.

We accept credit, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and a variety of other payment options.

Sugaring Certification: 

  1. Theory test (30min): Made from the non-graded quizzes. Multiple retry attempts are allowed. 
  2. Technique assessment: You will submit five short 1-3 minute videos of yourself sugaring various body areas (on yourself or a model).  Our educator will either approve your submission as is, or provide feedback so you can resubmit. 


Expert Brazilians and Mastering Manzilians:

Theory test only (15 min): Made from the non-graded quizzes. Multiple retry attempts are allowed. 

*Given the nature and privacy of intimate hair removal we do not do technique testing for these areas.


Other notes regarding tests:

  • There are no timers on any of the tests.
  • You can save and return back anytime.
  • Unlimited retry attempts are allowed for all tests.

In order to help you provide top-notch service, we will review your technique. We do this by requesting two to three-minute videos of yourself sugaring various body areas (upper lip, arms, armpits, legs, and bikini).

Our online educator will then review the footage and provide video feedback directly to you. If a correction is necessary, we may ask you to resubmit a video (you can be your own model as necessary).

Practicing the right technique is crucial.  Why? 

  • Improper technique can result in injury to both yourself and the client.

For example, bruising to the client can occur if too much pressure is applied. Improper form over a long period can result in a repetitive strain injury and limit your abilities to provide services in the future.

This is why choosing the right education provider is critical to your long-term success.

  • Only applicable to the Sugaring Certification. Intimate courses are exempt.

Yes. While it may be easier and more practical to sugar models, you can provide video footage of yourself sugaring your own body areas.

If possible, however, we encourage you to find models, which can be friends, family, or even prospective clients. 

Keep in mind that this exercise can help you build your clientele, before even formally launching your business. 

We provide a Model Waiver Form template, which can be used as additional protection while training.

You will automatically be issued your certificate upon successfully completing a course.

A physical certificate can be ordered from CIDESCO International. It features a premium metallic paper with a gold seal at the bottom.

The PDF file provided can be saved to your device, or it can be accessed in the future by visiting "My Dashboard".

Sugaring Hair Removal: Theory & Technique:

  • Theory: 30 to 45 minutes
  • Technique: 10 minutes of recording time. 

Expert Brazilians and Mastering Manzilians:

  • Theory: 15 to 30 minutes

Time will vary depending on the individual and experience.

Most of our sugaring educators and practitioners started out their careers in waxing. While waxing can be effective for some, we typically see longer-lasting results with sugaring.

Sugaring often produces better results, with a reduction in ingrown hairs. The reason is that the sugaring paste is removed in the hair's natural direction, similar to a tweezing motion. The result is less hair breakage and a cleaner extraction from the root.

Yes. While working at an established spa may provide a consistent flow of clientele, those who do not have a location may consider starting an at-home or mobile sugaring hair removal business.

We provide a crash course in marketing and also share social media resources, signage, and other materials to help get you and your new business started.

Sugaring requires skill and precision. With proper training, you will be able to provide a professional service, while having the capability to adapt to the nuances and differences between your clientele. Each individual has different sensitivities, needs, and considerations. Without knowing what to look out for, or the warning signs of a problematic condition, you could accidentally injure the client. 

For the above reason, it is important to "start off on the right foot" by choosing a well-rounded and professional education program.

Incorrect techniques or incorrect information can result in injury to both yourself and the client. 

For example: 

  • Too much pressure may cause bruising to the client.
  • Poor form from the practitioner can cause injury from repetitive strain injury (RSI), an extremely common condition within the beauty industry.
  • If a client has a certain skin condition, such as eczema or psoriasis, you may worsen it by sugaring over it. 

In our courses, we provide you with the right information and cover the correct body positioning and techniques to help ensure you continue to provide a  safe and effective service for the long term.

No. While ingredients between brands may be similar, the consistency is greatly impacted by a formula's process and measurements of each ingredient. 

Fun fact, before partnering with CIDESCO to become an international education provider, we extensively tested multiple brands at various spas. What we discovered was that different brands produce different outcomes. Some were not consistent and did not produce the results we intended. With staff input, we ultimately decided to go with Tamara's Sugar. 

Ideally, one to three types of professional-grade sugaring pastes.  

Depending on your region and climate, you may not need all three types. For example, a tropical climate may not be suitable for a soft paste if a service is being performed outdoors or in a warmer room.

Types of sugaring pastes: 

Soft or Ultra - Soft consistency for larger body areas, and custom blending. Effective for picking up vellus hair (aka "peach fuzz" or light hair).

Medium or Smooth - Medium consistency for all body areas. Glides on smoothly. A great paste for beginners and experts alike. Effective for terminal hair removal.

Firm or Strong - Firm consistency for warmer climates & custom blending. Strong enough to pull out the toughest hairs.

It doesn't have to be. With this innovative learning platform, you will learn all of the essentials through step-by-step video tutorials. Diagrams and user-friendly handouts are also included.

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Last updated: June 30, 2025.

DISCLAIMERS:

Certain countries or regions, such as the United States, also require a cosmetologist or esthetician license to practice. Please review your country or state/province requirements before enrolling.
* Program fees for in-person education may vary by region. Before enrolling, the educator will confirm the course costs with you.
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