MOBILE APPLICATION FOR SKIN CARE PERSONALIZATION AT JASMINE BEAUTY CLINIC USING ANDROID

Jasmine Beauty Clinic is a beauty clinic that serves consultation on facial skin problems, maintain facial skin, facial treatments, and selling skin care products. Patients who want to have consultation, treatments, and buy skin care products must come to the clinic with limited time according to the schedule of the clinic. Patients are required to have a consultation with a dermatologist before getting treatment or buying products, but they have to wait long enough to get a consultation because of the large number of patients. Often some patients cannot have consultations because the dermatologist’s schedule is full. Based on this problem, an Android-based application is created to analyze the type of skin they have and get recommendation on which product and treatment combination they are supposed to use.

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Advertising with scarcity messages and attitudes for luxury skin-care products

Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics ◽

10.1108/apjml-01-2021-0073 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Joshua Fogel ◽

Marcelle Kim Setton

Keyword(s):

Skin Care ◽

Limited Time ◽

Persuasion Knowledge ◽

High Demand ◽

Content Type ◽

Product Classification ◽

Skin Care Product ◽

Advertising Skepticism ◽

Skin Care Products ◽

Practical Implications

PurposeA number of types of scarcity messages are often used in Internet advertisements, but all these types have not been directly compared to each other.Design/methodology/approachCollege students (n = 789) were surveyed about five advertising choices for luxury skin-care products consisting of scarcity messages of high-demand, low-stock, limited-time, countdown timer and regular advertising without any scarcity message. Outcomes were product classification attitudes of functional and symbolic and psychological attitudes of persuasion knowledge and advertising skepticism.FindingsThe study found that high-demand message had greater functional attitudes and greater symbolic attitudes than regular advertising. Limited-time message had greater symbolic attitudes than regular advertising. High-demand message had lower advertising skepticism attitudes than regular advertising.Practical implicationsThe authors recommend that when a luxury skin-care product is in high demand, that marketers should use high-demand messages in their advertising. Marketers of luxury skin-care products may also benefit from using limited-time message advertisements.Originality/valueThis is the first study to directly compare the scarcity message advertising types of high-demand, low-stock, limited-time, countdown timer with regular advertising without any scarcity message.

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The efficacy of skin care products containing glutathione in delivering skin lightening in Indonesian women

Dermatology Reports ◽

10.4081/dr.2019.8013 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Kristiana Etnawati ◽

Dwi Retno Adiwinarni ◽

Devi Artami Susetiati ◽

Yusuke Sauchi ◽

Hitomi Ito

Keyword(s):

Skin Color ◽

Skin Care ◽

Efficacy And Safety ◽

Facial Skin ◽

Cosmetic Products ◽

Double Blind ◽

Tingling Sensation ◽

Asian Market ◽

Skin Care Products ◽

Skin Lightening

Glutathione is a potent antioxidant, which is widely used in skin care products for skin lightening especially in the Asian market. Presently, there was only one study of topical 2% oxidized glutathione (GSSG) in Philipino women, further study is needed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of cosmetic products containing glutathione. A double blind randomized clinical trial study was conducted in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 74 healthy Indonesian women, with average age 33.3 ± 5.9 years when subjects participated in the study. Each subject received supervised applications of Facial Wash twice a day, Day Cream with sunscreen and Night Cream. The subjects were divided into 3 groups based on the active ingredients of the tested products, which included glutathione reduced (GSH) 0.1%, GSH 0.5%, and without GSH. The effects of the tested products in lightening skin color and pigmentation were measured colorimetry with Chromameter Minolta for L*. Compared to a baseline, there were significant increases of L* (lightness) or ΔL* detected as early as week 2 in which group of GSH 0.1% were significantly higher compared to group of GSH 0.5% and group without GSH. Hyperpigmented lesions also improved, where GSH 0.5% group showed its superiority compared to others groups in week 8. The undesired effect were few minutes mild tingling sensation after night cream, and worsening of acne in all tested products. Conclusion skin care products containing GSH 0.1% and 0.5% were effective in facial skin lightening.

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