摘要:
Provided are an evaluation method for objectively evaluating the glow of the skin, a skin glow improver, and a method for examining skin glow improvers. This method for evaluating the glow of the skin comprises assessing the specular reflectance and diffuse reflectance of skin after polarized light is applied to the surface of the skin, and determining that glow is present in the skin when prescribed conditions are satisfied. A skin glow improver is provided by combining an alkali metal salt of alkoxysalicylic acid and trimethylglycine. This method for examining skin glow improvers makes it possible, using a significant decrease in surface roughness as an indicator, to examine samples capable of improving the specular reflectance of the skin.
摘要:
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for evaluating a cosmetic, which enables the development of a cosmetic that can make a skin beautiful and healthy. The purpose can be achieved by provid-ing a method for evaluating a skin-improving effect of a cosmetic applied onto a skin employing, as a measure, the change in thickness of a horny cell layer between a point of time at which the skin is moisturized and a point of time at which the skin is dried after the moisturization.
摘要:
The present invention was made in view of the above-described circumstances, and an object of the invention is to provide an external skin preparation having a rough skin improving effect, excellent in texture in use, especially excellent in smoothness, free of sticky feeling, and excellent in stability. Another object is to provide a skin cleanser excellent especially in usability and a cosmetic removing effect. That is, the external skin preparation of the present invention is characterized by comprising a block-type alkylene oxide derivative represented by the below-described formula (I).
[formula 1] Y-[O(EO) a -(AO) b -(EO) o -R] k (I)
(In the formula, Y is the residue given by removing hydroxyl groups from a polyhydric alcohol having 3 to 6 hydroxyl groups, and k is the number of hydroxyl groups of the polyhydric alcohol. EO is an oxyethylene group, AO is an oxyalkylene group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms, and they are attached in a block-type, respectively. The products, a×k, b×k, and c×k, are the average addition mole numbers of the oxyethylene group, the oxyalkylene group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms, and the oxyethylene group, respectively, and 0 ≦a×k≦ 100, 1≦b×k≦ 100, and 0≦c×k≦ 100, however, (a+c)×k>1. The percentage of all oxyethylene groups in formula (I) with respect to the sum of all oxyethylene groups and oxyalkylene groups having 3 to 6 carbon atoms in formula (I) is 10 to 80 mass %. Rs may be either identical to or different from each other, and they are hydrocarbon groups with 1 to 4 carbon atoms.) The skin cleanser of present invention is characterized by comprising 0.01 to 70 mass % of a block-type alkylene oxide derivative represented by the above-described formula (I) and 0.1 to 20 mass % of a moisturizer.
摘要:
The invention relates to providing a method for more conveniently evaluating stratum corneum condition. A stratum corneum sheet is contacted with a solution of a water-soluble dye, and the staining intensity or fluorescence intensity is measured to allow convenient evaluation of the stratum corneum condition. There is further provided a method for evaluating the ameliorating effect of a cosmetic or cosmetic treatment on the stratum corneum, by implementing the method for evaluating stratum corneum condition using a water-soluble dye according to the invention.