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Biophysical Characterization of Dry Facial Skin: J. L. Leveque, G. Grove, J. de Rigal, P. Corcuff
Biophysical Characterization of Dry Facial Skin: J. L. Leveque, G. Grove, J. de Rigal, P. Corcuff
Biophysical
characterization
of dryfacial skin
Received
December
1O, 1986.
Synopsis
INTRODUCTION
DRYNESS SCORING
BIOPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS
STATISTICS
Statisticalanalysis
employedSAS(North Carolina),usinga VAX 750 computer.Corre-
lationsamongparameters weredeterminedaccordingto Kendall/Spearman procedures.
Correlationcoefficients
(r) and statisticalsignificance
(p) havebeencalculatedfor all the
experimentaldata.
RESULTS
SC EXTENSIBILITY
CHEEK FOREHERD
40-
30
r
m,m
10
'-!
Z
< 1 (1-2)
DRYNESS SCORE
174 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS
CHEEK
140
>' BO
60
Ld 40
X
20
o
<1 (1-2) >2
nRYNESS SCORE
Figure 2. Relationship
betweenskinextensibilitymeasured
on cheek(arbitraryunits)anddryness
scores.
ELECTRICAL CONDUCTANCE
CORNEOCYTES
The SER wasnot foundto correlatewith the dry skin scores(r = 0.03, p = 0.85). A
statisticallysignificanttrend(r = 0.28, p = 0.04) wasobservedwith TEWL andthe
dry skin scores.
DRY FACIAL SKIN 175
CHEEK FOREHEAD
IS
i,i
u
z
10
u
z
o
u
DISCUSSION
CHEEK
9gg
659
n-
W
n- 8BB
0 759
?BB
<1 (1-2)
I]RYNESS SCORE
Figure 4. Relationshipbetweencorneocyte
sizeon cheekwith drynessscores.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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