MEASUREMENT OF SKIN PH

The knowledge of the skin surface pH-acid mantle is updated. The convi ction that chronic alkalinization is damaging has been strengthened. E xtensive skin surface pH data on the skin of non-white people are stil l missing. In the case of any measurement, the need for extensive infr astructural research and evaluation by non-parametric methods is empha sized. Infrastructural studies evaluate the range and change of the me asured parameters for each test method according to sex, age and body area, as well as the sensitivity of the method to pharmacological infl uences. A detailed knowledge of the normal-representative range would make it possible to select those individuals whose measured parameter is outside the main 95% of the population; a detailed study of such in dividuals would be a very effective method of understanding the basic regulatory mechanism of the measured parameter.