Description
The World’s Most Popular Skin Hydration Measurement Instrument
For more than 35 years the Corneometer® has provided the worldwide most used method to reproducibly and accurately determine the hydration level of the skin surface (stratum corneum). This is documented by the numerous scientific literature in which the terms “corneometry” and skin hydration measurements are inseparable. The accuracy of other hydration measurement instrumentation on the market is always assessed against the standard of the Corneometer®.
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Advantages of the Corneometer®
- The probe allows very quick measurement (1 s) important to avoid occlusion.
- Continuous measurements over a longer period can optionally be performed (“dynamic occlusion”).
- Substances on the skin (e.g. salts or residues of topical applied products) have only minimal influence due to capacitance measurement.
- The measurement depth is very small (10-20 μm of the stratum corneum) to exclude the influence of deeper skin layers (e.g. from the blood vessels).
- The probe is small and lightweight for easy handling and measurement on all body sites (e.g. lips etc.).
- The spring in the probe head ensures constant pressure on the skin enabling exact, reproducible measurements.
- The accuracy of the Corneometer® probe and the penetration depth of the scatter field can be checked easily anytime.
- The probe head can quickly be cleaned after each measurement.
- Worldwide established as “corneometry” with a broad range of studies. The Corneometer® had been used to determine the state of the skin of the astronauts on board of the International Space Station (ISS).*
- The Corneometer® is explicitly recommended is the latest guideline for skin water measurements by the experts of EEMCO (European group on efficacy measurement and evaluation of cosmetics and other products) (Skin Research & Technology, 2018, 24, p. 351-358).
The Corneometer® CM 825 is available as a stand-alone device, in the Derma Unit SSC 3, connectable to the MPA systems, or as a wireless probe (please see details in Basic Probe Systems).
*Study by DermaTronnier, instruments verified for space by KayserThrede GmbH on behalf of the DLR space travel management
