Avaliação dos componentes das formulações e do ph de várias marcas de sabonetes infantis disponíveis no mercado

Abstract

Formulations of baby skin soaps should have effective conditions, excluding all ingredients that may establish possible skin attack. Various soaps aimed at children's use may present substances with toxic potential damaging the baby's skin. In the market there are several children's products with inadequate pH, so it's up to everyone to be aware of the characteristics of the products for each age group, especially for babies because some may end up causing damage to your skin. The present study aims to evaluate the presence of components of the formulations harmful to the skin of babies and also measure the pH of children's soaps from the main brands available in the market. For the present research, six brands of children's soaps were acquired in drugstores in the metropolitan region of the city of Goiânia-Goiás. According to the results of the research, the pHs of the evaluated soaps were high (alkaline), thus demonstrating the inadequacy of the pH of various children's products freely available in sales outlets. In addition to components harmful to the skin of the baby, when analyzing the formulations of each child soap.