In December 1901, King C. Gillette sent a patent application to the US Patent Office. This invention has changed the face of personal hygiene around the world. The application with the number US 775 134 concerned a seemingly simple idea, namely a thin, replaceable steel blade, clamped transversely in the frame to obtain stiffness. No one then predicted that this one document would become the foundation of an empire worth billions of dollars today.

The epilation industry still uses patents, only today there are laser heads that adapt to the type of skin, heated cartridges with precise heat management and chemical mixtures for pH-controlled epilation. If your company is developing anything in this field and has not yet filed a single patent application, this article is for you.