Table 3.

Activity of the different combination of preservatives tested on growth dynamic expressed as % of inhibition.

	C. acnes	S. aureus	S. epidermidis
C1	+	++	−
C2	++	+++	−
C3	++	+++	−
C4	+	+++	−
C5	−	++	+
C6	+	++	−
C7	+	+++	−
C8	−	+++	++
C9	−	+++	++
C10	−	+++	+
C11	−	++	−

+++ strongly inhibited [< 75%]; ++. moderately inhibited [90–80%]; +, weakly inhibited [98–91%]; −, no inhibition.