title: The soap chamber test. A new method for assessing the irritancy of soaps.
abstract: The chamber test for assessing the irritancy of soaps entails five weekday exposures to 8% solutions with readings of scaling, redness, and fissuring on the following Monday. Eighteen well-known toilet soaps were evaluated. Great differences were noted. Most had an appreciable irritancy potential. These results contrast with a number of studies which failed to show differences among soaps or which concluded that soaps were innocuous.
mesh_terms: D004890:Erythema / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007509:Irritants; D010328:Patch Tests; D012882:Skin Tests; D012915:Soaps / Q000009:adverse effects*
chemical_list: D007509:Irritants; D012915:Soaps