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Article: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON SENSITIVE SKIN.(sensitive skin and companies that supply treatments)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Soap & Cosmetics
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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The precise clinical definition of sensitive skin remains as elusive today as it was twenty years ago. At that time investigators became aware of a group of individuals who responded to topical agents in a way that could not be "categorized as either irritancy or allergy in the conventional sense." Early investigators attempted to find chemical agents such as PABA as causative agents; later work became focused on identification of individuals most likely to react to certain unknown chemicals beyond sunscreens. [1]
While dermatologists may not have achieved consensus regarding sensitive skin from a clinical perspective, the consumer has. Consumer perception of ...