Skin Care Products: What do they promise, what do they deliver

The industry offers a vast armamentarium of skin care products to clean, soothe, restore, reinforce, protect and to treat our skin and hence to keep it in “good condition”. Skin care products are readily available and their promotions with fanciful claims are omnipresent. The promotions are based on effects, evoked by actives that are delivered through vehicles that rely on specific technologies. Due to the fact, that these products are in direct contact to the target tissue, their vehicle and ingredients are able to profoundly modulate the characteristics of the skin and some of its functions.

Source: Journal of Tissue Viability - March 27, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Christian Surber, Jan Kottner Source Type: research