Prevalence of allergic contact dermatitis to decyl and lauryl glucoside in the UK and Ireland.
Livia Francine SorianoC G BertramM M U ChowdhuryP CousenP DivekarS A GhaffarC GreenA HavelinCatherine R HoldenG A JohnstonAvad A MughalEilis Nic DhonnchaR A SabroeN M StoneD A ThompsonStephen Mark WilkinsonDeirdre Anne BuckleyPublished in: The British journal of dermatology (2020)
Alkyl glucosides (AG), of which decyl glucoside (DG) and lauryl glucoside (LG) are those most commonly implicated in causing allergic contact dermatitis (ACD), are surfactants increasingly used in a wide range of products, including cosmetics, sunscreens and foam wound dressings.1 DG is also a stabiliser in the UV light filter methylene bis-benzotriazolyl tetramethylbutylphenol (Tinosorb® M) and is occasionally an undeclared constituent.2.