Chemical depilatory

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

A chemical depilatory is a cosmetic preparation used to remove hair from the skin. Common active ingredients are salts of thioglycolic acid and thiolactic acids. These compounds break the disulfide bonds in keratin and also hydrolyze the hair so that it is easily removed.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Chemical depilatory”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Qt. Original uploader was Qt at German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.