ZOOM#29: IEC, Multimodal assessment of skin pigmentation

IEC GROUP – INSTITUT D’EXPERTISE CLINIQUE

With its 9 centers in EUROPE (FRANCE, BULGARIA), SOUTH AFRICA and ASIA (JAPAN, SINGAPORE, KOREA and CHINA), IEC offers expertise of mono and multicenter studies with adapted modalities to highlight product performance on pigmentation in relation to skin tone specificities and regulatory requirements of each country:

Instrumental approach with Spectrocolorimeter® (Minolta), SIAscope® (MedX), C-Cube® (Pixience), spectroscopic or color image analyses with Spectroscan® and Framescan® softwares (Orion Concept) and multi-parameter analysis from Colorface® (Newtone) available in each IEC centers
Bioengineering assessment of mechanisms of action at the epidermis basal layer level with Laser Confocal Microscopy (JC Pittet, E Camel et al., Depigmenting effect of a cosmetic product in Asian women, SF2IC communication, October 2010)
Clinical approach using scoring systems and a pantone dedicated to the skin
Perceived effects by trained assessors or naive subjects, with 9 EIZO ColorEdge® 27” LCD Monitors for grading photos under completely standardized conditions.