Hercules Gentian Violet Paint 20ml

Gentian violet is the vivid purple antiseptic of the traditional first-aid drawer: a dye with genuine antifungal and antibacterial action, painted onto minor skin complaints, and long used for oral thrush in babies. Modern practice has narrowed it: laboratory carcinogenicity signals led several regulators to restrict use, mouth use in infants is now discouraged in favour of miconazole gel, and its honest remaining role is occasional external use on intact or minimally broken skin for those who trust the purple bottle, sold with its stains and its limits declared.

Generations swear by the purple paint, and for occasional external use its antifungal action is real; the pharmacist's job is steering it away from mouths and babies.