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  Getting the benefits of Catanionic surfactant

  Posted by Kingstone on January 31, 2018 at 2:46 pm

  Dear All,

  I would like to know If i can make antibacterial hand wash based on acidic pHs for surfactant like - Cocamidopropyle betaine and Cocamidopropyle betaine oxide and some nonioninc surfactant as cleaning enhancer ,
  Can those surfactant act as real antimicrobial Agents and do the same task of antimicrobial agents ?

  Any comments on that subject ?

  Kingstone replied 7 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  DAS

  Member

  January 31, 2018 at 5:34 pm

  No. You have to use the permitted materials in the permitted concentration. Google it, its pretty much the same worldwide except for a few like triclosan. 

  The reason you see formulas like that online is that many of those are cationic and the use of anionic surfactants rends the antimicrobial useless.

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  OldPerry

  Professional Chemist / Formulator

  January 31, 2018 at 5:49 pm

  Here are the only things you can use for antimicrobial agents (for products in the US).

  https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/DevelopmentResources/Over-the-CounterOTCDrugs/StatusofOTCRulemakings/ucm070821.htm

  It’s regulated by the FDA as an OTC.  Here are the other types of products similarly regulated.

  FDA Monograph cosmetics

  A List of Cosmetics that have FDA Monographs

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  Kingstone

  Member

  February 2, 2018 at 12:29 pm

  thanks a lot for the inputs

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