This wax warmer is my first, but I have a lot of experience using microwave hard wax. The best features are that the warmer quickly melts the wax, keeps it at your desired temperature and is very quick to use (honestly halved the time it used to take me to wax my legs, armpits and bikini line). Finally, this product is a very reasonable price. If you are not sure, I would definitely get this single pot machine to try, it is adequate for somebody using one type of wax (eg. cream, hard or soft wax) and produced a perfect amount of hot wax for me. I used the Satin Smooth Pure Hard Wax with Arnica & Coconut (no material required, just pull off after applying thick layer) with the warmer, also purchased from Amazon.co.uk and found that you can, if you don't mind, reuse it ie. re- melt it and wax with it again many times producing the same great results.