Actually i am very new to magento I want to remove "Compare Products" block from side bar, there are some solutions given in google to edit in \app\design\frontend\default\beautyshop\layout\local.xml file but in my case there is no local.xml file exist in the "layout" folder, although i create an local.xml file and put the code
<layout>
<default>
<action method="unsetChild"><name>catalog.compare.sidebar</name></action>
</default>
</layout>
but still it not works for me i am totally stuck what to do any help is really appreciable.