Patent ID: 7438897

Claim:
A method for removing hair from a human body, which comprises: (1) providing a cold wax transparent depilatory composition, said cold wax transparent depilatory composition comprising (i) a polypropylene glycol as a solubilizing transparency enhancing agent, wherein the polypropylene glycol is present from 1 to 50 weight percent, and (ii) a hydrophobic rosin selected from the group consisting of wood rosin, rosin esters, modified rosin esters, glyceryl rosinate, glyceryl hydrogenated rosinate, polyethylene glycol rosinate, polyethylene glycol hydrogenated rosinate, pentaerthritol rosinate, pentaerythritol hydrogenated rosinate, dimerized rosin, esters of dimerized rosin, modified wood rosin, esters of modified wood rosin, polyol ester rosinate, polyterpene rosins, esters of hydrogenated modified rosin, aromatic hydrocarbon rosin, rosin ester resins, and combinations thereof, wherein the hydrophobic rosin is present in 50 to 99 weight percent (2) mixing and heating said cold wax transparent depilatory composition to at least its melting or softening point, wherein the heating is to a temperature not exceeding 80 degrees Celsius (3) cooling said cold wax transparent depilatory composition to a temperature of 30 degrees Celsius or less (4) applying said cooled cold wax transparent depilatory composition to the skin containing the hair to be removed, and (5) peeling said cold wax depilatory composition from the skin, thereby removing hair caught in said cold wax depilatory composition.