STEPHAN BIELFELDT*, ARNE BOEHLING, GUNJA SPRINGMANN, KLAUS-PETER WILHELM *Corresponding author proDERM GmbH, Schenefeld-Hamburg, Germany

Solar UVR, noxious gases, particulate matter, ozone, and cigarette smoke are key air pollutants with subsequent negative effects on the skin. Cigarette smoking is associated with skin aging (wrinkles, skin dryness, skin discoloration and so on), and the combination of smoking and solar UVR may even exacerbate the skin aging processes. In this paper we describe a new validated clinical method to evaluate the “protective” effects of specific cosmetic products against gaseous pollution exposure based on cigarette smoke as a pollutant model….

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