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Researchers from Gorlaeus Laboratories describe findings in dermatology

Published in Lab Business Week, December 2nd, 2007

Current study results from the report, 'Lipophilic and hydrophilic moisturizers show different actions on human skin as revealed by cryo scanning electron microscopy,' have been published. "To study the mode of action of moisturizers on human skin, hydrophilic moisturizers in water and neat lipophilic moisturizers were applied on excised skin for 24 h at 32 degrees C. Samples of the treated skin were subsequently visualized in a cryoscanning electron microscope," scientists in Leiden, Netherlands report.

"The stratum corneum (SC) appeared as a region of swollen corneocytes (the swollen region) sandwiched between two layers of relatively dry corneocytes (the upper and...

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