Hibiclens Antiseptic Skin Cleanser is Good for Chronic Skin Infections, Allergies
Hibiclens may be the best anti-microbial shampoo that I’ve recommended over the years.
I wonder if that’s because it hasn’t got perfumes and it’s made to human, medical-grade specs. You can BET that research hs gone into this far beyond what they do for almost any other skin cleanser.
It’s 4% chlorhexidine which is both anti-bacterial AND anti-fungus. (Think ringworm) and sometimes I wonder if a few of our chronic skin cases are “extra-complicated” by yeast and fungi we don’t recognize.
Who cares, really. Some dogs were actually CURED of chronic pyoderma / allergies by weekly use of this cleaner and so I’m recommending it.
What else (over the counter) works “quite well but maybe not quite as well?”
- Neutrogena T-Gel
- Neutrogena T-Sal
- Denorex or Head and Shoulders for Dry Scalp
- Universal Medicated Shampoo (Veterinary RX)
Once a week is helping dogs. Remove crusts as much as possible. A soft-bristle brush may help with that. (Buying this brush)
Why Not Buy the Pink Bottle Hibiclens?
You probably could, and it’s probably (practically) the same thing except in a clear bottle? I don’t know. What I *DO* know is that the lady who brought her dog back in *CURED* of it’s chronic skin infections 8 months and running had the ‘blue bottle’ in hand!
So even if they’re the same (which I think one’s the “soap” (pink) and the other is just “cleanser” with no reference to “soap” (blue) – I’d just stick with the blue bottle until or unless someone explains what’s the difference.
(I think they’re the same thing.)
