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A Genetic Perspective of Personalized Skin Care via TKS

8 June 2021

Are your skin care requirements as unique as your fingerprints?  If so, what type of testing would be appropriate to design personalized skin and hair care products.  The post human genome era resulted in the development of new tools and techniques available to better understand the differences and similarities among all skin types with respect to skin care.

Numerous papers identifying physical and biological markers focused on skin barrier repair, metabolism, wound healing, inflammation, skin coloration and aging for diverse skin types are increasingly being published.

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By HOWARD EPSTEIN – March / April 2021