Skin research and technology : official journal of International Society for Bioengineering and the Skin (ISBS) [and] International Society for Digital Imaging of Skin (ISDIS) [and] International Society for Skin Imaging (ISSI)
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Moisturisers have many different effects on the skin, but increased plasticity is an important effect of moisturising. We have studied the short-term effects of six commonly used brands of moisturisers on the plasticity of normal and atopic skin. ⋯ The results suggest that high lipid moisturisers cause significantly greater changes in plasticity of normal skin than low-lipid moisturisers, and that atopic skin is influenced to a higher degree by moisturisers than normal skin.