LU85026A1 - WAX DEPILATION PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR CARRYING OUT THE PROCESS - Google Patents

Description

- 2 - the present invention relates to hair removal and relates to a process according to which hair removal is done with wax.

Various waxing methods are already known and the most common consists of melting wax in a heating container, spreading it in a thick layer on the part of the body to be epilated, allowing the wax to harden. and then to tear off the strip of hardened wax, which carries with it the hairs to be depilated.

This process has the disadvantage of being impractical because it often causes wax stains and a more or less significant loss of wax, even if the user has to filter the waste wax and reuse it.

According to another known method, a more fluid quantity of wax is heated and applied in a thin layer on the part of the body to be depilated, the place is covered with a strip of fabric before solidification of the wax and, after hardening of the wax, the strip is torn off with the wax and the hairs. Here too, the process calls for the use of a heating container to melt the wax.

A variant of the latter method consists in heating the wax contained in a bottle comprising a dispenser member with wheels.

A method is also known which consists in using a strip impregnated with an adhesive product, of the type of sticky paper strip, in applying it to the place of the body to be depilated and in tearing it off after having compressed it.

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The object of the invention is to create a process h - 3 - for waxing having the advantages over known processes a greater cleanliness character and at the same time a greater economy of wax, because it leaves very little residue on the skin, greater ease of use for better performance, and greater safety since it makes any heating container and any manipulation of hot liquid wax unnecessary.

The method according to the invention consists in using a strip pre-impregnated with wax, to apply it to the place of the body to be depilated, so as to cause the coating of the hairs, the wax being in the liquid or pasty state, to be resolidi -fier the wax on the strip and tear off it with the coated hairs.

According to the invention, the wax having a melting point higher than room temperature, the liquefaction of the wax is caused before coating by a heating device.

Still according to the invention, the wax having a melting point below ambient temperature, the coating is carried out at ambient temperature and the resolidification is carried out by cooling using an appropriate technical means,

As a heating means, advantageously according to the invention is used for professional use a winder-winder provided with a heating element and possibly with a cooling element.

Advantageously still used according to the invention for private use a heater roller or skate.

To better understand the invention, it is now described on the basis of the attached schematic drawing, by way of examples only, showing in:

Pigure 1 an unwinder-reel for waxing according to the invention, and

Pigure 2 a heating element on wheels for waxing according to the invention, on a larger scale.

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In the apparatus represented in FIG. 1 a roll of fabric 1 impregnated with solidified wax is mounted on a drum 2 and the "strip of fabric 3, coming from said roller, is brought to travel a useful path AB before being rewound on a drum 4.

Between points A and B of the path of the strip 3, the solidified wax is subjected to heating, yes liquefies it, then it passes over the place to be depilated where the liquid wax coats the hairs and, finally, it undergoes cooling. which solidifies it by trapping the hairs. The heating of the wax can be produced in any suitable manner but it appeared advantageous according to the invention to insert between two frames 5, 6 an element 7 with Peltier effect. A heating means and a cooling means are thus obtained.

The appliance of FIG. 1 is applied to the body, so that the part AB of the appliance comes into contact with the surface to be epilated. The device is then moved on said surface in the direction of arrow C; arriving at A the wax of the strip liquefies by coating the bristles and arriving at B the wax is re-solidified, the strip then rewinding on the drum 4 with the solidified wax and the hairs pulled out.

Instead of such an apparatus for carrying out the method according to the invention, it is possible to use a heating member, as shown in FIG. 2, with pieces of strip impregnated with solidified wax and provided with a perfected lining or the like, the wax being deposited slightly behind the edges of the support. In this case the band being applied to the place to be depilated, the wax of the band is also liquefied on the skin by rubbing the upper face of the band with a heating roller or pad 8, provided with an appropriate heating element 9 and carried by a handle 10, the wax is then allowed to solidify at ambient temperature and then the latter is torn off with the coated noils. ,

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It was assumed above that the wax used had a melting point above room temperature but with the process according to the invention it is also possible to use wax having a melting point below room temperature. In this case, the strip is impregnated with liquid or pasty wax at room temperature and resolidified by means of an appropriate cooling device before removal.

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Claims (7)

1. A method of waxing, characterized in that it consists in using a strip prir.pregnant with wax, in applying it to the place of the body to be depilated, so as to - cause the coating of the hairs the wax being in the liquid or pasty state, to solidify the wax on the strip and to "tear off the latter with the coated hairs. 2. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that, the wax having a melting point higher than room temperature, the liquefaction of the wax is caused before coating by a heating device. 3. Method according to claims 1 and 2, character | risé in that the wax is resolidified in an accelerated manner; ï Dar cooling caused by a suitable technical means: 1 g proprie. 4. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that, the wax having a melting point lower than the tem- | ambient temperature, the coating is done at ambient temperature and the resolidification is carried out by cooling using an appropriate technical means. 5. A waxing device intended to carry out the process described above, characterized in that it consists of an unwinder-winder device for a fabric roll 11 or other support impregnated with solidified wax and yes comprises (at the place of unwinding of the strip intended to bring the strip into contact with the skin, a heating means. 6. Device according to claim 5, characterized 1.; : in that towards the end of the contact of the strip with the skin i the apparatus is provided with a cooling means, 7. Device according to claims 5 and 6, ca-! characterized in that the heating and cooling means are constituted by two armatures, between which is disposed a Peltier element, so as to pro-; duire a heating followed by cooling in the direction II of the unwinding of the strip. , I U J | t 'S v I ^ A * waxing device intended to carry out the process described in claims 1 and 2, characterized in that the heating means is constituted by a roller or pad element containing a heating element and is associated with "strips of fabric or other supports impregnated with solidified wax and provided with a paraffin lining or the like, the wax being deposited slightly behind the edges of the support. 9. Waxing device as described above and shown in the drawing in Figure 1 or 2. | I 4; !