Preservatives in cosmetics: Reactivity of allergenic formaldehyde-releasers towards amino acids through breakdown products other than formaldehyde

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 192-202

  Kireche, Mustapha ^a   Gimenez Arnau, Elena ^a   Lepoittevin, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

2 bromo 2 nitropropane 1,3 diol; contact allergy; degradation products; DMDM hydantoin; formaldehyde releasers; methenamine; preservatives; reactivity

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; BROMINE DERIVATIVE; BROMOETHANOL; BRONOPOL; COSMETIC; DIAMINOMETHANE; FORMALDEHYDE; HYDANTOIN; METHANE; METHENAMINE; PRESERVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLERGENICITY; ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; DECOMPOSITION; HAPTEN CARRIER COMPLEX; SENSITIZATION; SKIN ALLERGY;

AMINO ACIDS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; COSMETICS; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; HYDANTOINS; METHENAMINE; PRESERVATIVES, PHARMACEUTICAL; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS;

EID: 77956544578     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.2010.01770.x     Document Type: Article

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