1. ONLY SKIN DEEP: Analysis of Cosmetic Products
Maria Lucas:
Junius H. Rose High School
Summer Ventures in Science and Math
2009
Dr. Tahakkori, Mr. Miles, Ms. Shrestha

2. THESIS
What form of foundation/concealer the most beneficial to skin in general?

3. What makes it beneficial?
Reaches satisfactory hydration

4. What Makes It Beneficial?
Healthy for your skin

5. What makes it beneficial?
Has a natural appearance

6. What makes it beneficial?
Has a smooth texture

7. What makes it beneficial?
Gives skin an even color

8. What makes it beneficial?
Long Lasting

9. What makes it beneficial?
Has good coverage

10. Makeup’s being tested
Compact Pressed Powder Foundation

11. Makeup’s Being Tested
Liquid Foundation

12. Makeup’s being tested
Loose Powder Foundation

13. hypothesis
Compact Pressed Foundation is the most beneficial foundation for skin because it is the best of both worlds; it contains some moisture but also is a light powder for skin.

14. Procedures Test each makeup One makeup per day: document results
Magnified photos taken: -No makeup applied
-Immediately after application after several hours
-after sweating
-after a touch (splash of water after sweating and reapplication)

15. Procedures
Compare each stage from each makeup to the corresponding stage from every other makeup.
Compare each makeup applied with the natural skin.

16. Procedures
Decide which makeup is the best in each of the beneficial aspects of makeup previously listed.
Rank each makeup first, second or third with each category

17. Procedures
Total the ranks and the makeup with the lowest number score is the winner

18. Compact Pressed Powder
Hydration
Health
Natural Appearance
Smooth Texture
Even Color
Long Lasting
Coverage
Total
Compact Pressed Powder 2 1 12
Liquid 3 15
Loose Powder
Results
Compact Pressed Powder Wins!

19. Results Liquid won the hydration category
1. Liquid Compact Powder Loose powder

20. Results Loose Powder won for health
Loose powder is worn on top of the skin so it allows to the skin to release natural oils
Compact powder is right behind loose powder for health because is also a light make up but the small amount of moisture can seal the pores
Liquid is the worst because it seeps in pores and clogs them

21. Results Loose powder won for natural appearance
Natural Skin Loose Powder Compact Powder 3.Liquid

22. Results Compact pressed powder won for smoothest texture Natural Skin
1. Compact Powder
2. Loose Powder
3. Liquid

23. Results Compact pressed powder won for even coloring of the skin
Compact pressed powder was the easy to distributed and gave the most even color
Throughout the day the liquid foundation started to look very splotchy
These are two
different samples
of the skin after
several hours with
liquid foundation

24. results
Liquid foundation last the longest
Liquid
Compact
Powder
Loose

25. Results Liquid has the best coverage over blemishes Liquid Compact
Powder
Loose

26. Conclusion
Compact pressed powder is the most beneficial product for skin in general
Although for long lasting and good concealer liquid is the most useful foundation

27. Conclusion As a side note:
Women should not wear makeup until their skin is fully mature, but if they do it should be a mineral-based, oil-free powder
Liquid foundations cover pimples but also cause them because they clog pores where sebum needs to be released
Powder foundation makes blemishes stand out but are they healthiest for your skin

28. How this information can be useful
Consumers
Marketers/producers
Cosmetologists

29. Future work
For future work to give a more accurate result more foundation types should be used, especially mousse type foundation because it is light but is in cream form

30. Future work
Test the makeup types on more women of different ages, skin types and ethnicity would cause a very important impact on the data that could be used for cosmetic companies.

31. Acknowledgements