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| | eMedicine - Cosmeceuticals : Article by Santiago A Centurion, MD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Several diverse chemical substances are used in the therapy for various fungal infections, including fatty acids and their derivatives (eg, zinc, calcium, alkanolamine undecylenates), phenolics (4-halothymols), halogenated quinolines (iodochlorhydroxyquin), quaternary ammonium salts (hexadecamethylenebis-isoquinolinium chloride), and sulfur and sulfur compounds (zinc ethylene bisdithiocarbamate). |
 | | The standard chemical depilatory agents, available in gels, creams, lotions, aerosols, or roll-on forms, are the salts of thioglycolic acid (sodium thioglycolate or calcium thioglycolate) that were patented in the 1930s for dehairing cattle hides. |
 | | Thioglycolate depilatories work by hydrolyzing and disrupting disulfide bonds of hair keratin, causing the hair to break in half and allowing the hair to separate from the skin. |
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