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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1992; 15(3):217-222

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1992.15.3.217

Original Article

Patch Test in Cosmetric Contact Dermatitis

Ki Bum Myung

Copyright ⓒ 1992. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

Patch tests with patients' own cosmetics, cosmetic series type 17 and 18, and Hollister-Stier antigens were performed in 246 cases of suspected cosmetic contact dermatitis.

The positive rates of patch tests with patients' own cosmetics, cosmetic series and Hollister-Stier antigens were 63.5% .56.8%. and 51.8% respectively.

Cinamic alcohol, benzyl salicylate, jasmin abosolute, PPDA, ammoniated mercury, balsam of Peru were the most commonly identified antigens.

Among the cosmetics, skin care products were dominant causes of the cosmetic contact dermatitis.

The positive rate of foreign cosmetics was more than 1.4 fold higher than the domestic ones.