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It has been in the past. It's less common today, but there are still disinfectants or antiseptics that contain phenol. It's sometimes listed in the ingredients under its former common name, "carbolic acid."

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Phenolics kill microbes by disrupting the cell wall or cell membrane, thus causing lysis of the cell, or denaturing the metabolic enzymes of the cell causing cell death.

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