Effect of room humidity on the formation of fine wrinkles in the facial skin of Japanese

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 184-188

  Tsukahara, Kazue ^a   Hotta, Mitsuyuki ^a   Fujimura, Tsutomu ^a   Haketa, Keiichi ^a   Kitahara, Takashi ^a  

^a KAO CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fineline; Humidity; Skin conductance; Skin elasticity; Wrinkle

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DERMATOLOGY; ELASTICITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FACIAL SKIN; FINELINE; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SKIN ELASTICITY;

SKIN;

WATER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; ELASTICITY; EYELID; FACIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMIDITY; JAPANESE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SKIN EXAMINATION; TIME; VOLUNTEER; WRINKLE;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN AGING; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 33947431304     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2007.00209.x     Document Type: Article

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