In the average limeyard these various functions are inextricably mixed up, and it is impossible to assign any definite proportion of the total depilatory effect to any of the factors at work.
The depilatory action is entirely chemical, being due to the solvent action of the sulphide on the hair root.
Owing to the energetic action of this depilatoryupon the skin, ladies are advised not to use it for the face.
Rhusma is a depilatory which has long been known, and is still almost exclusively used in the Orient.
Buffon says that the Turks and some other people practised depilatory customs by the aid of ointments and pomades, principally about the genitals.
Depilatory customs are very ancient, and although minor in extent are still to be considered under the heading of mutilations.
Depilatory ointments are employed, consisting of equal parts of slaked lime and arsenic made into a paste with rose-water.
In view of the foregoing facts it seems quite possible that the majority of depilatory processes on the scalp originated in sun-worship, and through various phases and changes in religions were perpetuated to the Middle Ages.
Sulphide of calcium has been used as a depilatory by applying it made into a paste with water, and washing it off in about 1/4 of an hour.
Spolasco's depilatory is a very similar preparation (see below).
One of the most caustic and consequently the most certain of depilatory preparations; but, with the rest of its class, open to the objections of containing orpiment.
The white dung of dogs, sometimes used to soften leather in the process of dressing it after the depilatory action of lime.
A soap is sometimes made with lard and the above ingredients; or soft soap is combined with them; in either case to form a depilatory pommade.
But the oriental rusma yields to nothing in depilatory power.
In place of the liquid soap and razor it is sometimes convenient to use a Depilatory powder.
FORAL Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry The following report on Foral, a depilatory preparation, has been authorized for publication by the Council.
While its manufacturer states that Foral has been on the market for eighteen years, the following depilatory formula appears in a book published thirty-five years ago (A practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin, Louis A.
The first time I heard him use the expression was after the failure of a patent depilatory which he promoted.
The effect of the depilatory is the same, in this respect, as that of a razor, and the latter is, unquestionably, the better remedy.
But the hair is not destroyed by these means, the root and that part of the shaft implanted within the skin still remain, and are ready to shoot up with increased vigour as soon as the depilatory is withdrawn.
The simplest depilatory is moistened quicklime, but it is less energetic than the mixture recommended above; it answers very well for tanners and fellmongers, with whom time is no object.
The precise time to leave depilatory upon the part to be depilated cannot be given, because there is a physical difference in the nature of hair.
A good depilatoryis still a desideratum, the best perfumers of London and Paris have none which they can recommend.
Solomon was minded to marry her, but would not do so till the devils had by a depilatory removed the hair.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "depilatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
