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Eurofins assesses skincare hydration for different ethnic skin groups

December 14, 2021

As lack of hydration can affect all skin types, it’s one of the most common concerns of consumers around the world. Several studies have been conducted to find adequate solutions, but the need for moisturizing products that are tailored to different skin groups is still a challenge.

Several past and recent overviews have demonstrated significant variabilities of quantifiable parameters between different ethnicities, such as

skin hydration,
TEWL,
skin surface
pH,
sebum,
water content,
ceramide levels, and
skin reactivity gradients,

suggesting anatomical or physiological property differences across skin groups.

As skin hydration is increasingly becoming a topic in different communities, cosmetics and personal care companies are looking to address a more diversified audience with targeted solutions and patient-specific regimens to treat lack of skin hydration. This strategy requires a different approach, whereby companies must consider different parameters in clinical trials, such as: structural and functional specifics,

skin biochemistry and physiology,
inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic skin,
beauty ritual inspirations,
moisturizer application,
environmental factors,

and more.

With a worldwide network of 18 clinical laboratories across five continents, Eurofins has access to a wide panel of 100,000 subjects of diverse ethnicities with specific criteria, including, but not limited to, degree of dry skin, age, and specific pathologies. This allows us to undertake multi-centric trials with a dedicated recruitment process that considers different skin and environmental factors to perfectly fit hydration criteria.

Our international clinicians and dermatologists are very knowledgeable on skin types across different ethnic groups, to develop customized tests to assess the hydration benefits of skin care products.

We aim to address the complexity of facial skin moisturization needs in greater depth, as well as the need for different products for differently hydrated skin types, by offering multi-technical approaches:

Clinical assessment: Clinical scorage, self-assessment, photo/dermatoscope, etc.
Biometrology assessment: Corneometer, moisture map, mapping analysis of facial skin hydration, TEWL, isotropy, D-squames, quantisquam, MoistureMeterD^®, surface sampling to analyze NMF and lipids, etc.

Multi-site access and diverse panelists open up substantial innovation opportunities for more efficient, multiethnic moisturizing care.