title: Moisturizing and anti-sebum secretion effects of cosmetic application on human facial skin.
abstract: For human skin, high water content and low sebum secretion are considered to be main features of fair skin. To explore the proper personal care regimen for facial skin, we investigated the change of skin physiologic parameters after cosmetic application by measuring the skin water content, transepidermal water loss, and skin sebum secretion on facial skin before and after the cosmetic application using the Corneometer, Tewameter, and Sebumeter, respectively. The results indicated that the cosmetics application kept a higher water content and a lower transepidermal water loss, and at the same time, a lower sebum secretion 4 h and 8 h after the cosmetic application, compared with those before it. The situation was maintained in the succeeding three-week continuous use of the cosmetics. It could be concluded that the cosmetic application on human facial skin might provide some moisturizing effect and at the same time an anti-sebum effect, which favors the maintenance of good skin physiological function after applying skin care products. Our results might provide a scientific personal care regimen for human facial skin to prompt the balance for the hydrolipid film on skin.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Sino-German Union Cosmetic Institute Co., Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China 100123.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Yiyang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Junbing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Meixian
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Yundong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.forename: Dongmei
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Xiaoran
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schrader
authors.forename: Mathias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rohr
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001834:Body Water; D003358:Cosmetics; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012629:Sebum / Q000378:metabolism*; D012867:Skin / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D003358:Cosmetics