敏感性皮肤与日化产品开发

Sensitive Skin and Its Impacts on Developments of Household and Personal Care Products

敏感性皮肤(SS)的发生有不断增多的趋势,得到了皮肤科学界的关注。它是一种高度敏感的皮肤状态,易受到外部因素的影响而产生刺痛、烧灼、紧绷、瘙痒等感觉,可伴有或不伴有临床体征。由于敏感性皮肤对外界环境变化感受性较高,使得其在皮肤护理、日用化妆品使用方面有较高要求,因此预先了解皮肤状态对于正确选择化妆品及皮肤护理方法就显得尤为重要;对于化妆品开发与研究者而言,找到合适的与自身定位匹配的敏感性皮肤群体进行日用化妆品的测试也极其重要。日化行业从业人员应当对敏感性皮肤有足够多的认识,方能为消费者提供安全质优的相关产品、进而提升产品品质和品牌的美誉度。

Sensitive skin is a condition of subjective cutaneous hyper-reactivity to environmental factors. Sensitive skin shows yearly increase worldwide, which caused severe concerns from dermatologists gradually. It causes a series of feelings such as sting, prickle, burn, tightness, and pruritus, with or without clinical symptoms. So it make more challenges for Household and Personal Care（HPC） industry to develop safer and more effective products in terms of cosmetics, soap, toiletry, sunscreens, shampoo etc. to meet the high-quality needs of those consumers of sensitive skin. The industry should pay more attention to that hypersensitivity, specific and suitable ingredients or products should be researched and developed accordingly, which is business needs for product development, branding and consumer＇s loyalty.