What Does the Texture of Your Skin Tells You About and How to Measure It?
What Does the Texture of Your Skin Tells You About and How to Measure It?

Skin texture can be defined through the condition of the skin surface. A healthy skin will have a soft, smooth, and even texture and in cases of damages like excessive sun exposure, skin aging, dehydration and other conditions, the skin will become coarse, dull, and irregular, making it hard to apply cosmetics smoothly.

What Does the Texture of Your Skin Tells You About and How to Measure It?
What Does the Texture of Your Skin Tells You About and How to Measure It?

To improve this irregularity on skin texture, the use of moisturizers, exfoliators and other treatments are used and can successfully obtain great results, which will last longer with constant use of products, as the skin is always changing due to its cell renewal. 

To study and measure the skin texture, there is a device called MoistureMap MM 200, which captures 3D and high-quality images to see the actual status of the skin texture and hydration, enabling the comparison of images before and after treatments.

The images come in shades of gray. The darker the image will be the more hydrated and better texture it will have. Dry skin is represented with lighter shades on the grey level scale. The sensor works by giving graphical information on the surface hydration distribution and of the micro-topography, which is the appearance of the skin texture itself. 

The measurements are simple and easy, done by just resting the probe on the patient skin surface (or hair) and pressing the button on the handle that automatically captures the image which can be exported on an excel file.

This device is mostly used in research labs and dermatological clinics but is very useful to understand how your skin surface is, if you are doing it , focusing more on what you need on the next treatment and how to achieve it. 

MSci Maísa Melo
MSci Maísa Melo

About the Author: MSci Maísa Melo is a Pharmacist and a current PhD student in cosmetic technology, from São Paulo, Brazil. She has earned her master’s degree from the University of São Paulo and has been involved with the development, stability, safety and efficacy of cosmetics since 2013. She has specialized in the clinical efficacy of cosmetics by biophysical and skin imaging techniques as well as the use of alternative models to animal testing. Her research work has been published in several scientific journals and book chapters from the field. 

 

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