Contact Allergy to Alkyl Glucosides: A Review-Part 1.

Alkyl glucosides are chemically stable and hardly protein-reactive; they do not contain chemically reactive sites or strongly polarized structures.

Therefore, they were not predicted to have allergenic potential.

Yet, they can induce contact sensitization, which is increasingly recognized.

Most positive patch test reactions have current relevance, in >80% from their presence in personal care products.