Shionogi Company Limited

Nisshin Chemical Co., Ltd.

Shigeru Kido

Izumi Saitoh

Yoshio Doi

Shohei Egawa

Yoshio Sasaki

Syuichiro Shinohara

Kaori Ikeda

A pharmaceutical preparation for the treatment of tinea pedis, containing as basic components about 0.1% to about 2.5% of croconazole hydrochloride and about 1%-15% of an ethyl acrylate-methyl methacrylate copolymer in an aqueous alcohol, and if necessary, about 0.1% to about 2.5% of a thickening agent and/or a plasticizer.

Pharmaceutical preparation for tinea pedis

External preparations consisting essentially of about 0.1% to about 5% of tocopherol acetate and/or about 0.05% to about 0.3% of glycyrrhetinic acid, about 1% to about 15% of a methacrylic acid-ethyl acrylate copolymer, and about 0.2% to about 3% of a thickening agent in an alcoholic solvent, wherein said copolymer is characterized by that the monomer ratio of ethyl acrylate to methacrylic acid is within a range from 75/25 to 95/5, with residual monomer being 50 ppm or less and with practically no surfactants.

External preparation of vitamin-E

An acrylic copolymer of ethyl acrylate and methacrylic acid wherein the weight ratio of ethyl acrylate to methacrylic acid is in a range between 75:25 and 95:5, containing therein a residual monomer content of 50 ppm or less, but substantially no surfactants, and which is useful as agents for protecting the skin and manufactured from the following essential components:

Acrylic copolymer and skin protective

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Osaka, Japan

Shigeru Kido