Consensus Opinions on Facial Beauty and Implications for Aesthetic Treatment in Middle Eastern Women.

Background: Middle Eastern women worldwide increasingly seek aesthetic treatment to enhance their beauty and improve self-esteem, but literature describing standards of beauty across the Middle East are scarce. Knowledge of facial anthropometry and Middle Eastern subregional beauty preferences and aesthetic weaknesses are key to develop an effective facial enhancement strategy that does not jeopardize ethnic identity or facial harmony.

Methods: Dermatologists and plastic surgeons from 8 Middle Eastern countries who had 7.

Contact urticaria from carboxymethylcellulose in white chalk.

Background: Carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) is widely used in consumer goods, foods, and medicaments as a binder, emulsifier, and viscosity enhancer. Cases of immediate and delayed allergic reactions to this anionic cellulose polymer have been reported.

Objective: To report a case of contact urticaria from CMC in chalk, with possible cross-reaction to methyl hydroxyethylcellulose (MHEC).