Are cosmetics causing your skin to react, breakout or to be irritated?

Protect your skin from the cause of the irritation. Chimal Skin Shield is a flexible, invisible, non-slippery material that is applied to the skin that will not let harsh chemicals or biological agents make contact with your skin.

Contact Dermatitis - Cosmetics

Dermatitis most commonly occurs from hair dyes, nail polishes, perfumes, lipsticks and sunscreen agents. The chief site of the eruption is the eyelids area, with ears and neck next.

Eye makeup, such as mascara, eye shadow and eye pencil,seldom causes dermatitis (although eyeliner often does)whereas nail polish, while seldom causing trouble around the fingernails, affects the eyelids first. Lower eyelid dermatitis is often form wetting solutions or eye drops.Various formaldehyde resins are used in nail lacquers and nail lacquers and nail hardeners, as are sulfonamide derivatives, both of which sensitize.

Lipsticks contain waxes and fats (occasionally cocoa butter sensitizes), perfumes (occasionally sensitize), and dyes (especially tetrabromofluorescein), which may occasionally dry the lips and produce photosensitivity. Special lipsticks are available that contain neither fluorescein dyes, nor perfumes, like, for example, Almay (Texas Pharmacal) or Ar-Ex.

Sunscreen preparations containing PABA (para-aminobenzoic acid), hydroquinone or digalloy trioleate can sensitize, and in some cases, photosensitize. Bleaching creams are sensitizers too, either mercury, or hydroquinone being the culprit.

Toothpaste and mouthwashes can cause dermatitis from oils,cinnamon or other flavoring, or antiseptics.

Hair dyes are mostly of the permanent or "oxidation" type, containing para-phenylene diamine (PPDA), soap, ammonia and other modifiers which penetrate and color the hair when mixed with 20 volumes of peroxide. This type of dye accepts shampoos and cold waves and sensitizes most commonly. The azo and aniline dyes produce a semipermanent coloring which is tolerated well in most PPDA-sensitive patients, but lasts through only a few washings. Metallic hair dyes (Romans used a lead comb dipped in vinegar to darken gray hair) are also referred to as hair "restorers" and are mostly still based on lead and do not sensitize. Vegetable rinses are ususally made form henna, which is non-sensitizing, although some pyrogallol combinations are sensitizing. Methylene PPDA can cross-react with PABA in sunscreens, local anesthetics and sulfonamides-thiazides (Diruil), tolbutamide (Orinase), chlorpropamide (Diabinase) and saccharin.

Permanent-wave solution, usually thioglycolates, are alkaline reducing agents which make the hair malleable; the hair is "waved" on rollers and then "fixed" with an oxidizer (hydrogen peroxide, perborate, bromates of citric acid). Thioglycolates rarely sensitize, but do occasionally cause primary irritation if not carefully mopped up, and can split and break the hair.

The adhesive used to attach toupees and false eyelashes occasionally causes dermatitis, in which case Duo Surgical Adhesive (Johnson and Johnson) sometimes is tolerated well.Bleaching or freckle creams usually contain mercury or quinones, and all can sensitize; Benzoquin (Elder) is a very potent sensitizer. Face powders and rouge rarely cause dermatitis. Sunscreens, at least those made of PABA (Pre-Sun, Sundown, PABA gel, Sunbrella, etc.) or digalloyltrioleate (Sundare, Sunswept and A-Fil), can sensitize and photosensitize. The benzophenones, e.g., Solbar or Uval,seem promising, although there have been sensitizing cases.Sundare, RVPaque, RVP, Almay Sunburn Preventative, Liquid Sunshine (H. Rubenstein), Sun-Proof Cream (Ardena), Sun-TanGelee (rexall) and Sun Bath (Revlon) are generally acceptable.

Patients should be advised to apply perfume to their clothes if possible rather than to their skin and certainly should avoid using photosensitizing perfumes (e.g. Shalimar) on their skin in bright sun.

Hypoallergenic cosmetics are manufactured by several companies, two of the best being the Almay division of Schieffelin & Company and the Texas Pharmacal Company.

Source: http://www.telemedicine.org

The Skin Care Solution

Protect your skin from the cause of the irritation. Chimal Skin Shield is a flexible, invisible, non-slippery material that is applied to the skin that will not let harsh chemicals or biological agents make contact with your skin.

When applied properly protection will last four hours and cannot be washed off with soaps or solvents. While Chimal Skin Shield is not a medicine and no medical claims are made, Chimal will prevent contact with the many substances that cause contact dermatitis, latex sensitively and many other skin problems.

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How Chimal Skin Shield Works

Cross section view of the many layers that make up your skin

The outer layer of skin consists of dead skin cells which protect the delicate living cells of the deeper layers beneath. This outer layer needs to stay moisturized in order to protect the deeper layers of skin. To keep the moisture (water) from leaving the outer layer, your skin produces natural oils. These oils also help keep irritants from the deeper layers of skin. Regular washing with soap, or exposure to chemicals, can remove these natural oils.

When the natural oil is stripped from the outer layer, moisture quickly leaves the skin dry, irritated, and itchy. Worse, the deeper layers of skin are now left exposed to harsh damaging irritants such as detergents, solvents, cleaners, paint and thinners, gardening chemicals, dirt and grease, latex gloves and powder, etc. This results in more dry, irritated, and itchy skin that becomes chapped, cracked and damaged.

Skin lotions only replace natural oils with artificial ones. These only offer temporary relief that does little to heal the skin. Regular use of lotions can actually cause the skin to produce less natural oils. Instead of attempting to replace these natural oils, chimal forms a web, or bond, with the outer layer of dead skin cells. Thus Chimal Skin Shield helps reduce the natural oil and moisture loss, allowing the skin to heal itself. The Chimal Skin Shield helps the outer layer keep its natural oils and moisturizers that protect the deeper layers of skin, leaving skin soft and supple.

The Chimal Skin Shield keeps the outer layer of skin functioning so well it can breathe and perspire naturally. Because chimal becomes part of the outer layer of skin, it cannot be washed off like conventional lotions. It comes off naturally with exfoliating skin cells. For continued protection, just reapply every 3-4 hours.