Are antibacterial soaps safe? – the Beauty Brains Show Episode 11

Perry and I discuss breaking news on the safety of antibacterial soaps including an explanation of what the FDA is doing about it and what that means for you. This is not just another crappy year end review show – it’s all brand new material!   Win a free copy of our book just by reviewing the show on iTunes! (We’ll pick one lucky winner from all the reviews left on iTunes in the next week.)  Click below to play Episode 11: “Are antibacterial soaps safe?” or click “download” to save the MP3 file to your computer. SHOW NOTES In December the FDA announced that it’s going to take a closer look at antibacterial soaps. What is an antibacterial soap? Soaps that contain antimicrobial or antibacterial agents are actually drugs that are controlled by the FDA (in the US). Since these drugs don’t require a prescription, they are called Over the Counter drugs just like aspirin and antacids. These OTC drugs, as they’re called, are defined in a FDA document called a Monograph which specifies which active ingredients you can use, how much you can use and so forth. OTC drugs are classified in 3 ways: Category I = GRASE. (Generally Recognized As Safe and Effective.) Category II = Not GRASE. (Denotes that an active ingredient has been shown to be unsafe, ineffective, or both. You can NOT use these.) Category III = GRAS or GRAE. Triclosan is Category IIISE which means they’d like to see both safety and efficacy data. Starting in 1978 an...
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