The way of hair removal with variations of the mixture of sugar and water, is known as the Egyptian epilation or Persian waxing and goes back into the distant past, to the peoples of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece.

The early Mesopotamian records showed that the king demanded that the women who come to him should be "clean and smooth", i.e. are without hairs.

The Egyptian hieroglyphic records showed that the girls who served the Pharaoh had to remove the hair from the body due to its higher social class because the body covered with hair was considered to be unclean.

The most famous historical figure who has used this method (along with many other cosmetic treatments to preserve her beauty), was the Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

At the time of the Ottoman Empire, the harem with many beautiful women played an important role to the castle, and the hair removal was seen as an art.

Hair removal with sugar paste still plays an important role in the lives of women in the Arab nations. In particular, girls who are preparing for marriage undergo a complete hair removal, so that they are beautiful, smooth and clean for her husband. The only hairs that are left on the body were eyebrows and eyelashes. From the day of the wedding, and as long as the hairs grow, they go through a full-body waxing on regular basis.

Recently, this method is increasingly used in other parts of the world because of many advantages over other methods of hair removal.

There are many advantages of Egyptian (sugar) waxing:

• For many people this form of hair removal (epilation) is less painful. The hairs are removed in the direction of hair growth, which contributes to the reduction of pain, because the hair is removed from the skin in its "natural" direction.
• The results of growth remain visible 4-6 weeks (depending on the person). When hairs are removed in the natural directions of the hair grow, a very large number of hairs are removed and not being broken, they will be pulled out of the hair follicles and therefore they need more time to recover or to return to grow back.
• The hair is thinner after these treatments over time and is growing less frequently.
• After repeated treatments with the sugar paste (wax) the hairs will not grow on some parts of the body.
• The process of hair removal with sugar paste is also a mild exfoliation. The sugar wax has the advantage that the paste stuck much less on the top layer of the skin than other devices for hair removal (epilation). Along with the hair removal also dead skin cells are removed but not the deeper layers of the epidermis.
• The sugar wax can be very easy removed from the skin - just use warm water. The remains of the sugar wax can be easily removed from the skin with warm water, wet cloth or damp handkerchiefs.
• Sugar is a natural preservative and prevents the development of bacteria and fungi in the paste.
• Because the paste is natural and not aggressive to the skin, it can be used on all skin types, even sensitive skin which tends to have fragile capillaries, skin with scars and similar. For the same reasons it is possible to use sunlight and tanning beds immediately after hair removal with sugar paste.