Eczema

Eczema is a common itchy skin disease characterized by reddening and vesicle formation, which may lead to weeping and crusting. It is endogenous, or constitutional. There are five main types; atopic...

Food Safety

Food safety is a scientific discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness. This includes a number of routines that should be followed to avo...

Holiday Inn Express in Reston, VA teams up with Global Soap Project

(PRWEB) May 14, 2013 The Holiday Inn Express Reston/Herndon has teamed up with the Global Soap Project to recycle used hotel soap from check out rooms to be reprocessed into usable soap for develop...

Nurses dress up as ‘soap stars’ for infection campaign

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust has adopted an innovative method of encouraging good infection control techniques by transforming its nursing staff into some of TV’s most iconic s...

Old Spice Answers Call For “Manly”-Smelling Bar Soaps

Old Spice bars launch to guys looking for “masculine”-smelling soap. The rollout will be promoted with humorous television ads that pay tribute to soap commercials of the 1980s and 1990s, says the...

Contaminated Foaming Hand Soap Recalled Due to Dangerous Bacteria

Avmor Ltd. is voluntarily recalling one lot of its Antimicrobial Foaming Hand Soap (Triclosan 0.3%) due to microbial contamination. Product testing undertaken by Health Canada detected bacteria (Pseud...

Skin Bacteria Are Your Friends

Immune cells and commensual skin bacteria; courtesy of Lilly Koo/Jurai Kabat/Biological Imaging Facility/RTB/NIAID Americans have been on an antibacterial kick for the past several years. Our hand soa...

FDA Reviewing Chemical Found in Soap

The FDA is reviewing whether triclosan, an antibacterial contained in liquid soap and body wash may be ineffective or even harmful to humans. Recent studies on animals have shown an increased risk of...

Decades-old question: Is antibacterial soap safe?

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For Intensive-Care Patients, Bloodstream Infections Cut By 44 Percent By Antimicrobial Soap And Ointment

A sweeping study on the issue of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals shows that using antimicrobial soap and ointment on all intensive-care patients significantly decreases bloodstream infectio...

Evaluation of antibacterial soap in the management of lymphoedema in Leogane, Haiti.

In areas endemic for lymphatic filariasis, progression of lymphoedema is associated with recurrent bacterial acute dermatolymphangioadenitis (ADLA). The role of antibacterial soap in preventing ADLA i...

Effect of face washing with soap and water and cleaning with antiseptics on upper-lid bacteria of surgical eye patients.

Objective: To determine the effect of face washing with soap and water and cleaning with povidone iodine and cetrimide/chlorhexidine gluconate (Savlon) on upper-lid bacteria.Design: Prospective, nonra...

Doped soap membranes selectively permeate a chiral isomer.

Soap films can not only be made with sub-μm thickness, they can have intrinsic permeabilities comparable to many commercial membranes, permitting very high transmembrane flux. Soap films readily inco...

Soap-film coating: High-speed deposition of multilayer nanofilms.

The coating of thin films is applied in numerous fields and many methods are employed for the deposition of these films. Some coating techniques may deposit films at high speed; for example, ordinary...

Controllable fabrication of soap-bubble-like structured polyacrylic acid nano-nets via electro-netting.

Soap-bubble-like structured polyacrylic acid (PAA) nano-nets that comprise interlinked ultrathin nanowires with diameters of 10-35 nm are controllably prepared by a one-step electro-netting process.