Air pollution is becoming a very important subject, especially in big cities. In the past years, many publications reported potential adverse effects of air pollution on skin, such as skin inflammation, skin aging and pigmentation. Although men are more often exposed to environment due to probably longer time working, sporting and smoking, the researches about adverse effects of air pollution on male skin are relatively smaller. This article focuses the correlation between air pollution and male skin disorders. We found out that, in the mimic pollution environment for 4 hours, the skin L* value and ITA° value are decreased, a* value is increased, urea content is decreased, keratin carbonylation value is increased. While, water content, transepidermal water loss (TEWL), lactic content and ceramides content remain the same.
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