Abstract:
At present, skin aging is caused by both inner and outer factor. Skin aging visibly becomes interested issue in society. It causes wrinkles and fine lines on facial skin and body skin. Any sign of aging on skin is undesirable. It effects one's life in several ways; self-esteem in society, personality at work, etc. Nowadays, fine lines around eyes is cured by many methods. Long-termed study shows the effective way to cure is applying liniment from a derivative of Vitamin that is tretinoin progesterone. However, using tretinoin progestorone in high intensity may cause side effects. Thus, researcher have studied about substance that can reduce wrinkles around eyes and have founded that growth factor extract can increase skin collagen, revitalize skin and restore skin problem such as wrinkles and fine lines.
Researcher is interested in study of effectiveness of growth factor in cosmetics effects to fading wrinkles comparing to placebo.
To study effectiveness and evaluate satisfaction between using growth factor in cosmetics and placebo for reducing fine lines by comparing and contrasting photos and measuring dept of fine lines around eyes.
This study used 15 volunteers, both male and female who has age between 30-50 years old. All of volunteers is evaluated by dermalogist that they have fine lines around eyes. This study used volunteers as sample randomly. They applied growth factor cream (Anti-wrinkle skin nourishing cream) and placebo on their faces, one applied on the right side of the face and the other applied on the left side of the face. The data of two sides was concealed. They applied consistently for 8 weeks and they are evaluated on the first week, the 4th week and the 8th week by Rao-Goldman 5 - point visual scoring scale. Using Visioscan®VC98 fathomed the depth of fine lines. After the study finished, volunteers evaluated the satisfaction on the 8th week.
The result showed that growth Factor is able to improve fine lines around eyes after applying cream for 4 weeks. For placebo, it cannot improve fine lines around eyes. Growth factor cream statically reduce fine lines around eyes better than placebo. Its efficiency to reduce fine lines in male and female is more than placebo.