Gel vs. Wax
Key Differences
Removing gel is not difficult. It is like a water which automatically absorbed into hair. While to get the result of wax you are required to washout the hair after applying the wax.
Gel is more expensive than wax. Moreover, high quality gel are not easily found at shopping store. They are just available at saloon or beauty parlor. While wax is easily available on every shopping store.
Side effects of gel are more than wax because it is made of artificial flavors and chemicals. While wax is made of mostly natural ingredients and there are low chances of side effects.
Aimie Carlson
Feb 26, 2015
Gel comes in water jelly and spray form while wax always comes in a solid form.
Harlon Moss
Feb 26, 2015
Applying gel is very easy as compare to wax. It comes in complete shape while sometimes you are required to add some water and other materials in wax to get the complete form.
Beeswax, candelilla wax, carnauba wax, castor wax, emulsifying, lanolin and ozokerite are used as basic ingredients in the preparation of wax. While cationic polymers and copolymer of vinylpyrrolidone and methacrylamide are used as basic ingredients in the preparation of gel.
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Wax is used to straighten the curly hair as well giving the style while gel is used to softening and styling the hair.
Gel and Wax Definitions
Gel
A colloid in which the disperse phase has combined with the dispersion medium to produce a semisolid material, such as a jelly.
Wax
Any of various natural, oily or greasy heat-sensitive substances, consisting of hydrocarbons or esters of fatty acids that are insoluble in water but soluble in nonpolar organic solvents.
Gel
See gelatin.
Wax
Beeswax.
Gel
A jellylike substance used in styling hair.
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Wax
Earwax.
Gel
To become a gel.
Wax
A solid plastic or pliable liquid substance, such as ozocerite or paraffin, originating from petroleum and found in rock layers and used in paper coating, as insulation, in crayons, and often in medicinal preparations.
Gel
To apply a gel to (the hair).
Wax
A preparation containing wax used for polishing floors and other surfaces.
Gel
To take shape or become clear
Plans for the project are finally starting to gel.
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Wax
A resinous mixture used by shoemakers to rub on thread.
Gel
A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal.
Wax
A cosmetic procedure in which facial or body hair is removed by peeling away a layer of wax that has been allowed to harden.
Gel
Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair.
Wax
A fit of anger
"All at once you would suddenly find yourself reverting to childish attitudes, flaring up in a wax with some fellow" (Frank O'Connor).
Gel
A girl.
Wax
Made of wax
A wax candle.
Gel
(transitive) To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).
Wax
To coat, treat, or polish with wax.
Gel
(intransitive) To become a gel.
Wax
To remove (facial or body hair) by covering the skin with a layer of wax that is peeled off after hardening, uprooting the encased hairs.
Gel
(intransitive) To develop a rapport.
He was a nice guy, and I got on OK with his friends, but the two of us never really gelled.
Wax
To remove hair from (a portion of the body) by this method.
Gel
To come together to form something; to cohere.
We put our ideas together and they eventually gelled into a saleable product.
Wax
To increase gradually in size, number, strength, or intensity
“His love affair with Mrs. Bernstein waxed and waned and waxed again” (C. Hugh Holman).
Gel
A colloid in a more solid form than a sol
Wax
To show a progressively larger illuminated area, as the moon does in passing from new to full.
Gel
A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Wax
To grow or become as specified
“His very body had waxed old in lowly service of the Lord” (James Joyce).
Gel
Become a gel;
The solid, when heated, gelled
Wax
To speak or write as specified
“[He] warmed to his most favorite of subjects, waxed eloquent, gained in his face a glow of passion” (Paul J. Willis).
Gel
Apply a styling gel to;
She mousses her hair
Wax
Beeswax.
Wax
Earwax.
What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?
Wax
Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
Wax
Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
Wax
The phonograph record format for music.
Wax
A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
Wax
A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil.
Wax
(rare) The process of growing.
Wax
An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.
Wax
Made of wax.
Wax
(transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
Wax
(transitive) To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
Wax
To defeat utterly.
Wax
To kill, especially to murder a person.
Wax
To record.
Wax
To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
To wax eloquent
Wax
To grow.
Wax
To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
Wax
To move from low tide to high tide.
Wax
To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; - opposed to wane.
The waxing and the waning of the moon.
Truth's treasures . . . never shall wax ne wane.
Wax
To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.
Your clothes are not waxen old upon you.
Where young Adonis oft reposes,Waxing well of his deep wound.
Wax
To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.
Wax
A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; - usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.
Wax
Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance.
Wax
Cerumen, or earwax.
Wax
A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.
Wax
A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
Wax
A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.
Wax
A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable.
Wax
A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; - called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.
Wax
Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling.
Wax
Any of numerous substances or mixtures composed predominantly of the longer-chain saturated hydrocarbons such as the paraffins, which are solid at room teperature, or their alcohol, carboxylic acid, or ester derivatives.
Wax
Any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water
Wax
Cover with wax;
Wax the car
Wax
Go up or advance;
Sales were climbing after prices were lowered
Wax
Increase in phase;
The moon is waxing
What is Gel?
Gel is a jelly-like material, which is used to stiffen and giving particular style to hair. Gel is not a latest innovation. If we search through history, we comes to know that in ancient Egyptians times gels were used to styled the hair of mummies. These times, they were made of fats and vegetables. Today the trend of gel has got popularity form America and UK and both are the leading manufacturers of gel as well. The purpose of gel is to softener the hard hair and gives them a particular and dashing hairstyle. It is like a liquid type jelly. Rub into your hands and apply on the hair to get textures and style. Cationic polymers and copolymer of vinylpyrrolidone and methacrylamide are used as basic ingredients in the gel.
What is Wax?
Wax is a type of some hard paste material, which is used to reshape and hold the hair. After using the wax, it requires to washout the hair to gets the effect. It gives shine and style to the hair. Most of the wax are already complete in manufacturing while some required water to mix out to make the wax. It is being used for ancient times in shape of waxy soap. Beeswax, candelilla wax, carnauba wax, castor wax, emulsifying, lanolin and ozokerite are used as basic ingredients in the preparation of wax. Besides purchasing it from store, you can also prepare it at home.
