EFFICACY AND ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF SCRUPULOUS COMMERCIAL SOAPS AGAINST BACTERIAL STRAINS

Volume : IV, Issue : IV, April - 2015

T. Kanimozhi, R. Vichithra Devi

The study aims to check the antibacterial activity of various anded soaps against bacteria present in wound

infection.Wound infection is one of the major problem faced by modern population due to changing environment

and pollution.Antibacterial soap has the ability to remove 65% to 85% of bacteria from human skin. To determine the

antibacterial activity of antibacterial soap, three ands of commercial soap (CS–1,CS–2, CS–3)was evaluated against the bacteria isolated from

wound samples. The antibacterial activitywas determined bywell diffusion method, Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) and Minimum

Bactericidal Concentration(MBC). The highest efficacy was shown by CS–1 against Staphylococcus spp, (24mm), the second most efficacy CS–2

was shown by Pseudomonas spp (22mm).The least efficacy CS–3 was shown by Streptococcus spp (19mm). MIC shows that CS–1has good

inhibitory concentration against all the test organisms, which is then further proved by MBC.