Contact allergy to and allergic c…l review and update.
🔬 Peer-reviewed
Contact allergy to and allergic contact dermatitis from formaldehyde and formaldehyde releasers: A clinical review and update.
An Goossens, Olivier Aerts
Contact dermatitis · 2022
Findings
Formaldehyde releasers are preservatives still commonly used in cosmetics and personal care products that can trigger allergic contact dermatitis—even in people who aren't sensitive to formaldehyde itself. The EU has banned some of these ingredients (like quaternium-15), but others like bronopol and diazolidinyl urea remain legal and can cause localized rashes, airborne reactions, or widespread dermatitis. If you're allergic to one formaldehyde releaser, you may tolerate others, so patch testing individual ingredients matters.
Design
Review
Evidence
Moderate
Journal
Contact dermatitis