Results of this survey revealed that at the point of sale 56.% of the items tested were free of microbial contaminants and 5.% harbored less than 102 CFU g1, giving a total of 61.% of the products studied found to be in compliance with specifications. These observations are not far away from published figures, particularly those from the developing countries; Abdelaziz et al. (1989) found that the rate of microbial contamination in shampoo brands marketed in Egypt was 43% but bacterial count in these products was low and pathogens were absent. They also found that only 15% of these commercial brands contained microbial counts in excess of
102 CFU g1. These results are almost identical to those obtained in this investigation for the shampoo brands, as 18.5% of them were found to be contaminated with high microbial populations.