Synthetic Detergents and Liquid Soap

Ukei Chikako, Hayakawa Ritsuko, Matsunaga Kayoko, Ohiwa Kumiko

doi:10.11340/skinresearch1959.26.291

In the recent years, synthetic detergents (SD) had been under discussion about the relationto the enviromental pollution, safety for thehuman body and hand dermatitis. Therefore inTsushima city, a trial of using liquid soap (LS) instead of SD was attempted in the city hospitaland school meals cooks. We were entrusted itspropriety. In order to examine the difference inskin hazard between SD and LS, we carried outmedical examinations of cooks' hand conditionsand patch test with SD and LS in human andmouse. And we investigated about the maincauses of hand dermatitis with the patientssuffered from hand dermatitis and visited ourclinic.<BR>Results were as following:<BR>About hazardous influences to the hand skin ofcooks, there was not any significant difference between SD and LS. In patch test, there wasthe significant difference among the products, but no significant difference between the classificationof SD and LS. The protective gloves orcreams did not show any benefit in the handdermatitis. The severity of hand dermatitis wasrelated to the past histories with or withoutcontact dermatitis. In the physiological examinations, only the reduction of the skin surfacewater content of the palm was related to theseverity of hand dermatitis. The eruptions wereoccured most frequently on finger tips where thephysical irritants were affected most strongly. In cold water tolerance test, the patients' recoverytimes of skin surface temperature wereprolonged. We assumed the main causes of hand dermatitis were one's constitution andphysical irritants, and the detergents were subsidiary factors.

Synthetic Detergents and Liquid Soap

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