… ® 50 years of Sterillium 50 years of trust Most relevant studies on efficacy, skin tolerability and compliance. ® Sterillium : A plea for alcohol-based hand disinfection Fifty years ago, Sterillium – the world’s first marketable alcohol-based hand disinfectant – revolutionised surgical and hygienic hand disinfection: hand hygiene became more efficient and, above all, skin friendly. Since the first Sterillium batch left the factory premises in Hamburg-Stellingen, Germany in 1965, around sixty articles on the preparation have been published in scientific journals. Thus, Sterillium is the most frequently scientifically invesitgated hand disinfectant in the world. Efficacy, skin tolerability and compliance And this research on hand hygiene is continued unabated. A study from 2014 just proved that Sterillium possesses a skin caring effect on the skin, which is an essential aspect for the use of a hand disinfectant, because users only like to use a preparation that keeps the skin moist. …