Chlorinated products aren't any better for the skin than the other halogenated products containing iodine etc. In high school I had a job as a dishwasher. One day our manager decided to help us out and filled our rinse tank and added the sterilizing agent. Of course she put in 10 times more than was needed, and you could smell the chlorine coming off this sink enough to make your nose burn. I had a job to do, so I got to it, and at the end of the shift sloughed off most of the first couple layers of skin from my hands. Doctors said it was the chlorine solution that got me.