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                                                                    Exhibit 23.1


                        CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS


The Board of Directors and Stockholders
DEP Corporation

We consent to incorporation by reference in the registration statements (No.
33-85000 and No. 33-58894) on Form S-8 of DEP Corporation and subsidiaries of
our report dated September 20, 1996, except for Notes 1, 15 and 16, which date
is October 23, 1996, relating to the consolidated balance sheets of DEP
Corporation and subsidiaries as of July 31, 1996 and 1995, and the related
consolidated statements of operations, stockholders' equity, and cash flows and
related schedule for each of the years in the three-year period ended July 31,
1996, which report appears in the July 31, 1996 report on Form 10-K of DEP
Corporation and subsidiaries.


/s/ KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
Los Angeles, California
March 17, 1997