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Antiseptic Skin Cleanser

Dosage form
LIQUID
Labeler
AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation
Label updated
2025-12-12
Retrieved
2026-09-07
Active ingredients
CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE
View original label and images on DailyMed ↗
Active Ingredients

Chlorhexidine Gluconate 4% Solution

Purpose

Antiseptic

Uses
  • healthcare personnel handwash: helps reduce bacteria that potentially can cause disease
  • skin wound and general skin cleansing
Warnings

For external use only

Allergy alert: This product may cuase a severe allergic reaction. Symptoms may include:

  • wheezing/difficulty breathing
  • shock
  • facial swelling
  • hives
  • rash

If an allergic reaction occurs, stop use and seek medical help right away.

Do not use

  • if you or the patient is allergic to chlorhexidine gluconate or any other ingredient in this product
  • in contact with meninges
  • in the genital area

Keep out of reach of children

If swallowed, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away.

Stop use and ask doctor if

irritation, sensitization, or allergic reaction occurs. These may be signs of a serious condition.

When using this product

  • keep out of eyes, ears, and mouth. May cause serious and permanent eye injury if permitted to enter and remain in the eye or may cuase deafness when instilled in the middle ear through perforated eardrums.
  • if solution should contact these areas, rinse out promptly and thoroughly with water
  • wounds which involve more than the superficial layers of the skin should not be routinely treated
  • repeated general skin cleansing of large body areas should not be done except when advised by a healthcare provider
Directions
  • use with care in premature infants or infants under 2 months of age. These products may cause irritation or chemical burns.

Healthcare personnel handwash:

  • wet hands with water
  • dispense about 5ml of product into cupped hands and wash in vigorous manner for about 15 seconds
  • rinse and dry thoroughly

Skin wound and normal skin cleansing:

  • thoroughly rinse the area to be cleaned with water
  • apply the minimum amount of product necessary to cover the skin or wound area and wash gently
  • rinse again thoroughly
Other information
  • store at 20°-25° C (68°-77° F)
  • avoid excessive heat above 40° C (104° F)
Inactive ingredients

cocamide DEA, fragrance, glucono-delta-lactone, hydroxyethylcellulose, isopropyl alcohol, lauramine oxide, PEG-75 lanolin, purified water, tridecyl alcohol.

Questions of comments?

1-800-587-3721

Label information

Warning: This product contains a chemical (cocamide DEA) known to the State of California to cause cancer.

Laundering/Cleaning Instructions: Chlorhexidine gluconate skin cleansers will cause stains if used with chlorine releasing products. Rinse completely and use only non-chlorine detergents.

*Good Neighbor Pharmacy® Antiseptic Skin Cleanser is not manufactured or distributed by Mölnlycke Healthcare, owner of the registered trademark Hibiclens®.

Package label and principal display panel

Good Neighbor Pharmacy

NDC 46122-137-34

Antiseptic Skin Cleanser

(Chlorhexidine Gluconate 4% solution)

Antiseptic/Antimicrobial Skin Cleanser

8 FL OZ. (237 mL)

ABC# 10286304 REV. 02/24

FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY

DYE FREE

TAMPER EVIDENT: DO NOT USE IF SAFETY SEAL IS BROKEN OR MISSING

[Image in the official label — see DailyMed source]

Good Neighbor Pharmacy

Compare to the active ingredient in Hiniclens®*

NDC 46122-137-43

Antiseptic Skin Cleanser

(CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE 4% SOLUTION)

ANTISEPTIC/ANTIMICROBIAL SKIN CLEANSER

16 fl oz (473 mL)

ABC#10286265 REV.02/24

FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY

DYE FREE

TAMPER EVIDENT: DO NOT USE IF SAFETY SEAL IS BROKEN OR MISSING

[Image in the official label — see DailyMed source]

DailyMed Set ID: 12ace9af-14ed-2dea-e054-00144ff8d46c · Version 6
NDC: 46122-137