Method of treatment of skin diseases related to microbial antigens in the skin

Abstract

A method of treating isomorphic diseases of the skin of mammals, to reduce the lesions or roughing of the skin surface resulting from such diseases, the method comprising topically applying to the skin of a mammal suffering from the skin disease several doses of an effective amount of a liquid composition containing a clinically effective concentration of a fatty acid ester of an alcohol, the ester comprising a total of from about 10 to about 35 carbon atoms, and a carrier liquid, the carrier liquid comprising water and a volatile parafinnic alcohol having up to four (4) carbon atoms, the proportion of water in the carrier liquid being from 0 to about 75% by volume, and further comprising a surfactant in the amount of up to about 0.4% by wt. of the total composition, the carrier liquid being present in an amount of from about 0 to about 60% by vol. of the total liquid composition, the ester being dispersed with any carrier liquid present. Examples of suitable active esters are the palmitates, laurates, and myristates.

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