“…Synthetic anionic detergents and alkaline "built" washing agents are accepted as eczematogenic. Although occasional acute irritant effects are seen from some concentrated anionic detergents as moderate irritants, the bad reputation of detergents may be unjustified for as Suskind and Whitehouse (1963) have shown by immersion tests, that housewives eczema, allegedly due to detergents, can still support daily immersion in weak solutions without ill effect.…”