Patent ID: 9724284
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: A61K,A61Q

Claim:
1. A method of removing a tattoo from skin of a human subject, consisting of the step of applying to a region of the skin having the tattoo a reducing composition, wherein the reducing composition includes a reducing agent and a first penetration enhancer in admixture in a first carrier that is different than the first penetration enhancer, wherein the first penetration enhancer is present in an amount sufficient to effect penetration of at least a portion of the reducing agent through the skin to the tattoo therein, wherein the reducing agent is present in an amount effective to at least partially decolorize or break up a pigment of the tattoo by chemically reducing the pigment so that the reducing composition effects chemical reduction of the pigment, and wherein the reducing agent is sodium oxymethylene sulfoxylate.