HUBUNGAN CIRI FISIKOBIOLOGIK KULIT DENGAN PERSEPSI DIRI KULIT SENSITIF Kajian dalam Transepidermal Water Loss, Hidrasi Kulit, dan Kadar Sebum

Background Sensitive skin complaint is used by individuals who feel that their skin is less tolerant of both cosmetic products used and the environmental factors, compared to the general population. The number of individuals who complained of sensitive skin usually on the face, increase lately and particularly werecomplained by women in industrialized countries at different ethnic. The skin sensitive symptoms are usually marked with the sensation of 'small pricking' like tingling, heat, and itching, with or without clinical signs of skin irritation. The etiology of sensitive skin is unknown, but it is believed that it comes from the increase of the stratum corneum permeability or the acceleration of the neural response.The pathogenesis of sensitive skin is still debatable whether there is a problem on the skin barrier, neurosensorydisorder, or the presence of other skin diseases. Problem of skin barrier can be measured with the physicobiologic skin features. Objectivetodetermine the association between physicobiologic skin features in terms of transpidermal water loss, skin hydration, sebum levels and selfperceptionof sensitive skin (SPSS). Metode case control design was used to determine the relationship between transpidermal water loss (TEWL), skin hydration, levels of sebum and sensitive skin self-perceptions. Result of the amount of each subject is 50 in all age groups, the mean TEWL value SPSS and control groups were 8.581 ± 3.033 and 8.97 ± 3.4 gr/m2/hr, the mean skin hydration was 41.31 ± 11.65 and 39.055 ± 13.1