| Teaching (Dissection) | Long Term Storage | Disadvantage | Advantage | Technique |
| Not tested | Extremely well when the coffin sealed | Toxic | Long term storage | Salafia (c. 1927-1933) |
| Not applicable | Not applicable | Only for isolated specimens | Good preservation of colour and form | Kaiserling (pulvertaft, 1950) |
| Satisfactory | Satisfactory | No data available | Easy storage | Jores (1896, 1913) |
| Highly satisfactory | No data available | Medium brown colour | Very active as fungicidal agent, soft and the plastic cheap | Woodburne & Lawrence (1952) |
| Satisfactory | Possible | No data available | Good preservation of intestines doesn’t affect the the dissector’s skin, odourless, objects sty smooth and elastic, colour-preserving | Peters (1956) |
| Satisfactory | Satisfactory | No data available | Soft and flexible less exsiccation | Erskine (1961) |
| No data available | Successful for 2 years | No data available | Decrease rigidity increased bactercidity and fungicidity, less Browning | Richins et al. (1963) |
| No data available | No data available | No data available | No data available | Dayton et al. (1965) |
| No data available | No data available | No data available | No data available | Beck (1966) |
| Satisfactory | No data available | No data available | Cheap, odourless | Tutsch (1975) |
| Satisfactory | No data available | No adequate fixation of brains | Moderate degree of movability and adequate degree of hardness for dissection | Bradbury & Hoshino (1978) |
| No data available | Almost unlimited, when vacuum packed | No data available | Increase fungicidity, cheap | Platzer et al. (1978) |
| Facilitates micro-dissection | Satisfactory | No data available | Soft preservation, obviates excessive noxious fumes | Logan (1983) |
| “Suitable” | Up to 10 years | Slight odour, headache, drowsiness, mild eye, nose and throat irritations | Soft and flexible | Frolich et al. (1984) |
| Satisfactory | No data available | Fluid accumulation | Smooth, colour-preserving | Frewein et al. (1987) |
| Satisfactory | No data available | No data available | “Well fixed” | Ikeda et al (1988) |
| Satisfactory | Proved up to 2.5 years | No data available | Formaldehyde vapour levels below COSHH limits, improved tissue preservation, more nature coloration | O’sullivan& Mitchell (1993) |
| Satisfactory up to 6 months | No data available | Grey hue of skin | Less toxic | Macdonald & MacGregor (1997) |
| Satisfactory | No data available | No data available | Excellent preservative properties, minimal structural distoration, tissue supple, little desiccation, natural colours | Coleman & Kogan (1998) |
| High acceptance | No data available | Expensive, disintegration of muscular tissue, limited for dissection | High colour preservation, smooth and flexible | Thiel (1992,2002) |
| No data available | No data available | No data available | No data available | Powers (2003) |
| No data available | No data Available | No data available | High mould preventiong | Mills (2010) |
| No data available | When waxed, possible | Hardening outside the tank, >2 days for re-softening | Not structural distortion, not colour changes | Al-Hayani et al. (2011) |
| No data available | Up to 1.5 years | No data available | Natueal appearance, odourless | Anichkov et al. (2011) |
| Limited usability | Up to 1year | Yellowish coloration, corrosion, disintegration of abdominal organs | Neutral smell | Janczyk et al. (2011a) |
| No data available | Up to 3 years | Expensive | Flexible tissues, aesthetic appearance, less toxic | Hammer et al. (2012) |
| No data available | Up to 2 years |
| Less toxic, good preservative properties, low volatility | Shi et al. (2012) |
| No data available | No data available (good for short term preservation ≤ 6 months) | No data available | Good coloration and flexibility | Goyri-O’Neill et al. (2013) |