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  2. Alcohols (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Alcohols applied to the skin are used to disinfect skin before a needle stick and before surgery. [2] They may also be used as a hand sanitizer; [2] to clean other areas; [2] and in mouthwashes. [3] [4] [5] Taken by mouth or injected into a vein, ethanol is used to treat methanol or ethylene glycol toxicity when fomepizole is not available. [1]

  3. Skin care - Wikipedia

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    Skin care is at the interface of cosmetics [4] and dermatology. [5] The US Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act defines cosmetics as products intended to cleanse or beautify (for instance, shampoos and lipstick). A separate category exists for medications, which are intended to diagnose, cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent disease, or to affect ...

  4. Antiseptic - Wikipedia

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    They are used to disinfect the skin before injections, among other uses. Diguanides including chlorhexidine gluconate , a bacteriocidal antiseptic which (with an alcoholic solvent) is considered a safe and effective antiseptic for reducing the risk of infection after clean surgery, [ 11 ] including tourniquet-controlled upper limb surgery. [ 12 ]

  5. 2-Ethylhexyl salicylate - Wikipedia

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    2-Ethylhexyl salicylate also known as octisalate or octyl salicylate, is an organic compound used as an ingredient in sunscreens and cosmetics to absorb UVB (ultraviolet) rays from the sun. [1] It is an ester formed by the condensation of salicylic acid with 2-ethylhexanol .

  6. Paraben - Wikipedia

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    The Arrhenius equation was used in a study to calculate activation energies for the chlorination of four parent parabens (methyl-, ethyl-, propyl-, and butylparaben) and was found to range from 36–47 kJ/mol. [22] In another study, tap water at 20 °C (68 °F) containing 50–200 μM free chlorine was spiked with 0.5 μM propylparaben and the ...

  7. Dimethylethanolamine - Wikipedia

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    Dimethylethanolamine (DMAE or DMEA) is an organic compound with the formula (CH 3) 2 NCH 2 CH 2 OH. It is bifunctional, containing both a tertiary amine and primary alcohol functional groups. It is a colorless viscous liquid. It is used in skin care products for improving skin tone and also taken orally as a nootropic.

  8. List of isomers of tridecane - Wikipedia

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  9. Oleyl alcohol - Wikipedia

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    Oleyl alcohol / ˈ oʊ l i ˌ ɪ l, ˈ oʊ l i əl /, [1] or cis-9-octadecen-1-ol, is an unsaturated fatty alcohol with the molecular formula C 18 H 36 O or the condensed structural formula CH 3 (CH 2) 7 −CH=CH−(CH 2) 8 OH. It is a colorless oil, mainly used in cosmetics. [2]