Temporary Chemical Depilation

Abstract

Some mankind groups desire the smooth skin without the covering hair forgood touch or clean feeling therefore the unwanted hair removal wasstudied. Temporary chemical depilation employs some chemicals such asthioglycolates that can hydrolyze and break the disulfide bond in cysteineunit of hair keratin. This allows for hair weakness and its easy removal. Theother components of a depilatory formula are surface active agent, binder,alkaline pH adjustor and hair penetrator which are added to promote thedepilatory efficiency. The skin irritation and dark point from remaining hairshould be aware at depilation site. In addition, the hydrogen disulfide gasformation will be occurred. Papain and eflornithine have been reported tobe used for hair removal. The interest of searching is the natural-basedsubstances for hair removal and decrease the hair growth; however there isthe limitation from the instability of most compounds in alkaline environmentduring chemical depilation.Keywords: hair, removal, chemical, temporary