Effects of Soybean Diet and Back Massage on 40`s~50`s Women`s Facial Skin

Choi, Young-eun; Kang, Sang-mo

Journal of the Korean Society of Cosmetology 2016;22(5):1049-1060.
Published online October 31, 2016.

청국장 식이와 등마사지가 40~50대 중년여성의 안면피부에 미치는 영향

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Effects of Soybean Diet and Back Massage on 40`s~50`s Women`s Facial Skin

Young-eun Choi, Sang-mo Kang

Abstract

This study was performed to find out the effects of back massage and soybean diet on the facial skin of the middle-aged women in their 40``s-50``s. Test subjects were classified into 4 groups, the control group (Cont), the soybean diet group (SD), the back massage group (BM) and the soybean diet & back massage group(SDBM). Each group was consisted of ten persons in their 40``s-50``s. The change of sebum, moisture, melanin index and erythema index of each group were measured before the experiment and after 12 weeks. The soybean diet group (SD) were ingested every morning soybean 50g, and the back massage group (BM) has received a back massage twice a week (each 30 minutes), SDBM were received all. When observed the change of skin condition by averaged each part in face, since the sebum was measured that BM group increased 12% compared with Cont. group, and SDBM group increased 11% compared with Cont. group. The moisture was measured that BM group increased 3% compared with Cont. group, and SDBM group increased 7% compared with Cont. group. Also, melanin index change was measured that BM group decreased 24% compared with Cont. group, and SDBM group decreased 29% compared with Cont. group. Erythema index change was resulted that BM group decreased 14% compared with Cont. group, and SDBM group decreased 15% compared with Cont. group. The results are effective back massage than the soybean diet on the facial skin for 40 to 50 middle-aged women. However, it could be confirmed that this is more effective in SDBM.

Key Words: Back massage, Facial skin, Middle-aged woman, Sebum, Soybean diet