Abstract
Techniques to characterize the barrier function of the skin include a number of noninvasive methods to measure moisture content and loss through the skin surface. One of these measurements is the determination of skin hydration using a method known as corneometry (Bilchmann and Serup 1988). This technique determines the capacitance of the skin due to its behavior as a dielectric medium and assesses a 10–20-μm thickness of the stratum corneum. The method has been compared with other techniques (Van Neste 1991; Fluhr et al. 2001) and applied to evaluate dermatological and cosmetic products in human volunteers (Zuang et al. 1997; Singh et al. 2001; Yilmaz and Borchert 2006).
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Maibach, H. (2015). Skin Hydration. In: Hock, F. (eds) Drug Discovery and Evaluation: Pharmacological Assays. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27728-3_109-1
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