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Two cases of contact dermatitis resulting from use of body wash as a skin moisturizer.

Miller MA, Borys D, Riggins M, Masneri DC, Levsky ME

Department of Emergency Medicine, Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, Ft. Hood, TX 76544, USA. michael.adam.miller@us.army.mil

The use of liquid skin cleanser or body wash has become common in the United States. We report 2 cases of contact dermatitis secondary to the application of Dove Body Wash (Unilever US, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ) with the consumer misconception that the product was a skin moisturizing cream.

Published 14 February 2008 in Am J Emerg Med, 26(2): 246.e1-2.
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