Practical study of qualitative and quantitative sebum excretion on the human forehead.
Measurement of Sebum Excretion Rate (SER) in patients is a time-consuming test. It is now possible to measure SER 1 h after having degreased the forehead with a 70% ethanol solution. The skin surface lipids (SSL) collected during this time have similar composition to those collected for up to 7 h. A qualitative and quantitative study of sebaceous excretion, on 18 volunteers, from 1 to 7 h after having cleansed the forehead, showed that the refatting kinetics, in all subjects, obeyed the same mathematical law, independent of the subjects' individual SER.
D000328:Adult; D000431:Ethanol / Q000494:pharmacology; D005260:Female; D005546:Forehead; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D050356:Lipid Metabolism; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D012629:Sebum / Q000378:metabolism*; D012867:Skin / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D013997:Time Factors
D000431:Ethanol