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A novel device for foot reflexology that utilizes color light stimulation has been developed and the efficacy of the device has been tested as a basis study. The new foot color reflexology device is designed in a way so that color light can separately project red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet color lights to various neural reflex points on foot for a certain amount of time. The efficacy of the device was studied with seven young healthy subjects by measuring various physiological signals and foot related parameters before and after the treatment of the foot color reflexology. The measured physiological signals were bodily temperature, blood pressure, pulse rate, and heart rate variability(HRV). The measured foot related parameters were foot surface temperature, foot instep circumference, volume and peripheral plethysmograph(PPG). The results showed increase in bodily temperature, foot surface temperature and decrease in pulse rate, HRV, foot instep circumference, and foot volume. Therefore, the foot color reflexology seems to be effective in reducing stress and relaxing mind and body.

Owing to continuous progress in medical science and rapid development of industry and economy, the average life span of Korean woman has already reached to 82 years old and the woman older than 50 years old of the total woman population reach 22.2% and, therefore, health care for climacteric women is being dealt with more importantly than ever. Particularly, women in the middle years tend to have estrogen deficiency due to ovarian insufficiency before and after menopause and go through Postmenopausal symptoms and mental and physical stress. This study examined the effect of Ayurveda Massage, an Indian traditional alternative medicine, upon Postmenopausal symptom, This survey selected the experimental group with 10 menopausal women of 48~58 years old women in the middle age residing in Masan city and Changwon city, Gyeongnam who have no other diseases and have taken no drugs and are 6 months to less than 3 years after Postmenopausal and performed Ayurveda massage for them by means of Dhanwantharam thailam, Ayurveda oil, of Indian traditional Ayurveda massage once a day for 10 days. As a result of this study, postmenopausal symptom of the experimental group through selfdiagnosis questionnaire decreased from average 16.60±8.71 before the above-mentioned Ayurveda treatment to average 9.10±7.32 after the treatment, with significant variation 7.50±6.55. From the above findings, Indian traditional Abyanga(=massage) therapy was effective in reducing Postmenopausal symptom in postmenopausal women. The result of this study revealed that Ayurveda(Abyanga therapy) is effective in reducing Postmenopausal symptom in postmenopausal women and, it’s considered, its more and positive applications for health care of postmenopausal women will exhibit great contribution towards upgrading the quality of beauty industry.

For the experiment, to develop new materials for cosmetics, the Celosia cristata L. plant extracts were used for physiological effect and cosmetics application research. The Celosia cristata L. is a Korean traditional variety grown. To investigate the effects of Water and Ethanol extracts of Celosia cristata L. on skin anti-aging, we measured anti-aging activity and skin wrinkles. To measure the synthesis of collagen, ELISA experiment using HDF cell was performed. This showed that both extracts significantly raised collagen synthesis in a dose-dependent manner. In the assessment of skin wrinkles using human specimen, Celosia cristata L. had an excellent improving effect. From the above results, it is referred that Celosia cristata L. water and ethanol extracts appears to have potent anti-aging activity. In conclusion, results of the current study indicate that Celosia cristata L. can be used for dietary and pharmaceutical purposes. If Celosia cristata L. extracts should be manufactured into a cosmetic product, this will be usefuly applied to the development of excellent skin wrinkles cosmetic product.

According to this study, inflammatory papule, pustule acne skin, with the 20 ages, seven men and women to identify characteristics common to acne management by using tea tree and lymphatic massage on it you want to show the correct management of acne to be significant. In addition, these basic data will help an effective acne management and acne prevention. The results of this research follows. A case of acne is to manage the number of 10 times when compared before and after the forehead two, the philtrum 4, one under the chin, one right nose and the left side of cheek three can be seen to be reduced. Ago. In the case of B, T part to see the part of the complexity of the dry skin was a lot of acne on the forehead, said. When comparing the number of acne management before and after the forehead Management 5, 3 left cheek, the right to see one, the nose was reduced. this Acne occurs during puberty, from C person as a whole in the face with acne scars and acne occurs, and was still continuing. 10 times the number of administrative management of acne and then compare the before and after the forehead when management 4, the philtrum 1, the jaw 8 was relaxed. this particular, the part of jaw is relieved. this D, the most visible part of a lot of white head and the past I had acne scars. When comparing the number of acne management record managing the forehead after three, glabell 3, the philtrum 1, 3 left cheek, the jaw can be seen to be reduced. F is the target than the number of acne scars acne side but managed to see the number of acne scars and see the site of the erythema or something that could be relaxed. Acne and Pimples the cheek around the target G is deadly but the management of erythema or something right after the cheek left and the number of pimples and a lot of erythema or something that could ease. As shown above, the acne skin tea tree oil and lymphatic massage to see a lot of improvements have been tea tree oil and acne on the skin is the lymphatic massage that can be effective.

This study had been researched to understand the skin care specialist’s hand sanitation and the practice rate of hand washing. It had been surveyed from 207 of the skin care expertise who have worked from July 1st, 2008 to August 31st, 2008(approximately 2 months) within the Metropolitan area and χ2 verification had been executed by using SPSSWIN 12.0 program for the statistical analysis. As a result of the survey, the average of hand washing frequency was 9th time per day which was the most frequent and the time required to wash their hand was 10~29 seconds. Afterwards, the drying process of their hand was researched that using common towel was 49.3% and individual towel was 34.3%. Among them, the research have shown that using exclusive hand towel was 20.4% in the skin care clinic within the hospital and 4.4% in the general skin care clinic so that the skin care clinic within the hospital’s practice rate of hygiene control seems like higher than the general skin care clinic. As a result of hand washing rate survey, it has shown that 49.3% washed every attendanceof their office and 37.7% washed frequently. In addition, 58.5% washed every time before caring the skin and 33.8% washed frequently. It also has been investigated that people who have got higher education washed their hand more often. When they touch their different customer’s skin, it has shown that 61.8% washed their hands every time and 29.5% washed just often. In addition, the general skin care clinic washed hand more frequently than the skin care clinic within the hospital and 76.8% washed every time and 19.8% washed frequently after touching the client’s skin who has a pimple problem. It also has shown that when the class of one’s position was higher, people washed their hand more frequently. After they went to the toilet, 78.7% washed their hands every time and 19.8% washedfrequently. As the result, it is really necessary to suggest the concrete managing process about the hand sanitation and proper hand washing.

This experiment focused on the effect of Tea tree oil that was bland with Jojoba oil to 1% and 2 % on the improvement of acne skin. It has been reported in many studies that Tea tree oil is anti-bacterial and specifically effective on the treatment of acne. In this study, Tea tree oil was bland with Jojoba oil to 1% and 2 % so that it could be applied to the face. The subjects were seleced 3 students who were 20 years old. The 1% and 2% solutions were applied on the left and right side face of the subjects. Subject A with pustular acne confirmed seeing improvement after 10 treatments with both the 1% and 2% solutions. The 10 treatments were performed from Oct. 13, 2008 to Dec. 15, 2008. The effect was more significant with the 2% solution. The length of time for improvement to be made was observed: with the 1% solution, the improvement gradually showed after the 6th treatment and the effect was evident after the 10th treatment while the improvement began to show after 4th treatment with the 2% solution. Thus it is more ideal to treat acne pustular with the 2% solution than the 1% solution. Subject B with papular acne confirmed seeing improvement began to show after the 5th treatment, but at least 10 treatments were apparently needed to improve the acne problem. The same experiment was conducted on subject C with whitehead and blackhead confirmed seeing improvement after 10 treatments who showed that the application of the 1% and 2% solution led to improvement after the 10th treatment. This is some what different from the results involving pustular acne: there was no significant difference between the 1% and 2% solution used on papular acne and both concentrations began to show improvement after the 5th treatment. It was similar in that there was no significant effect before the 5th treatment. Lastly, subject C, whose acne was the least problematic among all subjects, also saw improvement with both the 1% and 2% solutions, whose effect was evident after the 5th treatment. Subject A, B and C, whose had different types of acne, were observed under the same conditions, and it was found out that the number of treatments led to more visible and significant improvements, rather than the concentration of the solution, in the acne other than pustular acne. With pustular acne, the 2% solution showed more a significant effect than the 1% solution, and the improvement was faster with the 2% solution in terms of the concentration level as well. Considering the results, the effect of tea tree oil on the improvement of acne, which was reported in many studies, was confirmed once again in the clinical trials, and it can be seen that the 2% solution was more effective. Minimal improvement began to show after the 5th treatment and that at least 10 treatments were needed to have a significant effect.

The purpose of this study was to survey and analyze the degrees and influence factors of job satisfaction of estheticians. A questionnaire was devised consisting of total 30 items including 5 items of wage, personal relations, working hours, working environments, job speciality and workloads. Total 221 questionnaires were collected. The period of research was from march 9 to 27, 2009. The statistical methods to analyze the data included frequency distribution, percentile, reliability analysis, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson’s correlation analysis. The results of the study are as follows: First, the total job satisfactions of the respondents appeared to be highly with a mean of 3.15. By subarea, they showed the degree of wage(M=3.26), personal relations(M=3.31), working hours(M= 3.00), working environments(M=3.02), job speciality(M=3.38) and workloads(M=2.89). Respondents showed the highest degree of job satisfaction in job speciality. On the other hand, they showed the highest dissatisfaction with workloads. Second, the difference on job satisfaction by 4 variables are as follows. 1) Age : total job satisfaction by age made no significant difference; under 20 years old(M=3.28), 21~25 years old(M=3.10), 26~30 years old(M=3.17) and over 31 years old(M=3.17). 2) Academic level : total job satisfaction by academic level made no significant difference; graduated high school(M=3.29), college(M=3.14), graduated university(M=3.10) and post graduated university(M=3.11). 3) Work years at current job : total job satisfaction by Work years at current job made no significant difference; below 2 years(M=3.16), 2~3 years(M=3.18), 4~5 years(M=3.07), above 6 years(M=3.10). 4) Location : total job satisfaction by location made significant difference; estheticians’ who business quarters(M=3.21) and larger apartment complex(M=3.19) more highly total job satisfaction than smaller apartment complex(M=3.04). By subarea, they made significant difference of personal relations, working hours, working environments, job speciality and workloads. Third, the results of Pearson’s correlation analysis showed all positive relationships among the six areas of job satisfaction. Especially, there were the highest correlations between total job satisfaction and working environments(r=.776, p<.01) and highly between wage and the workloads (r=.513, p<.01).

New features and functionality of the new concept of the development of cosmetic material is a big part in the world cosmetics market and the continuous development of our country for the cosmetics industry is an important task. The electron donating ability of PL and MB water and ethanol extracts ware higher than 60% and 80% respectively at compound PL 1mg/ml and MB 1mg/ml concentration. The superoxide dismutase(SOD)-like activity of the PL and MB water and ethanol extracst ware more than 90% at compound PL 1mg/ml and MB 10mg/ml concentration.bIn this study, in order to use Phellinus linteus(PL) and Mognolia biondii(MB) extracts, physiological effect in cosmetics were tested. As a result, PL and MB has a great potential as a cosmetics material ingredient with a antioxidation effect.

The job stress of esthetician teachers are related to the instructor’s health, quality of education and job satisfaction. In this point of view, we can say that it is important to analyze the job stress of esthetician teachers to further estimate and plan for the activation, specialization and circulation of the skin beauty economy. The result of the analysis show that esthetician teachers suffer mainly from the muscle and skeletal pain of the work. Following were stress from physical environment, job structure, individual relationship. Group relationship ranked the lowest. From these results we can suppose that the muscle and skeletal pain were mainly caused from overwork and repeatable actions. These pain were usually focused on neck and shoulder. Since stress from group relationship were very low we could also assume that stress from coworkers and superior were bearable. As spoken above, physical stress is the main reason of the stress, which can become the main reason of job exchange, loss of health, and drop of education quality due to lack of volition. It is necessary to initiate a health program to support the instructors. The job stress of esthetician teacher differed according to personal features(age, academic achievement, career). Stress from physical labor were shown throughout every age level. However surprisingly young teacher aged 20~29 seemed to suffer more than more experienced teacher. There seemed no significant difference on the stress caused by academic achievement. Relating stress with career, we could find out that people with low career suffered more from muscle or skeletal pain caused by the work. We think that these stresses were lessened with more experienced instructors since they started to adapt to the job and invent new know-hows. The job stress of esthetician teacher were effected by working conditions(average income, working hours, overtime work). The teachers who had an income of 1 million~2 million won seemed to be more dissatisfied than other teacher. We could find out that the stress from low income were making a synergy effect to increase the overall complaint. The working hours which were mainly 9~10 hours(day) seemed significantly related with teacher’s stress. We could find out that the low income amplifies the complains of oneself in his long duty hours. These could lead to the teacher’s physical and mental stress. Overwork hours also had a significant relationship with job stress. It was shown that 1~2 day of overwork days raised the job stress of the teachers. Likewise it had some influence on the relationship with his/her co-worker. From this study there are several comments that could be made. First, we could find out that instructors aged from 20~29, who have 5~7 year of career, have a lot of stress due to muscle or skeletal pain. It is urgent to educate them about exercises and programs which could loosen and relax their muscles. Also supports are needed to create an environment which they could promote their health. Second, a lot of instructors suffered from the lack of private space and low profit. More support and active care should be aided by the manager to improve these aspects.

Balneology and spa therapy, although not accepted as well-established treatment modalities in dermatology, are used throughout the world. Balneotherapy is the systematic application of mineral water for therapeutic purposes. The mechanisms by which a broad spectrum of disease are alleviated by spa therapy may involve mechanical, thermal, and chemical effects. To review and discuss various spa therapy modalities, used at the Micro-wave water therapy for a wide spectrum of skin disease. Existing evidence indicates the therapeutic potential of Micro-wave spa therapy modalities for atopic disease, acne and sudororrhea. A total of 48 people, 24 people of Experiment group and 24people of control group, were selected by the method of Diagnostic tests for 3 types. This experiment showed that occlusion using Micro-wave water therapy was a useful technique to heal skin troubles. It is essential to establish therapeutic guidelines to determine the optimal treatment modality for each disease, and the optimal protocol of each treatment component.

The purpose of this study is to examine a desire for beauty in female undergraduates who are energetic in pursuit of external beauty because of having advance to society ahead, simultaneously with coming to have a free living form from regular and systematic life during the middle-high school days, as the transitional age bracket of implementing from adolescence to adulthood, and to examine specifically a method for expressing beautiful appearance through its specific beauty-care behaviors. This study analyzed substantial behaviors in skin care, weight control, and cosmetic surgery by aesthetic attitude through the value system on beauty and the beauty behavior in female undergraduates on the basis of the results in questionnaire, which surveyed targeting 401 female undergraduates who are in 3 universities where are located in Gyeonggi-do Province. Thus, the aim is to educate right beauty, to prevent self-humbling caused by wrong aesthetic consciousness, and further to be used as basic data in a research on developing beauty goods, developing cosmetics, or developing beauty education program targeting female undergraduates. According to this study, female undergraduates’ aesthetic consciousness was indicated that most of female undergraduates think‘outward appearance to be important about a person’s beauty,’and that female undergraduates perform positive beauty-care behavior in the aspect of aesthetic attitude in order to satisfy this desire. The criterion for judging beautiful appearance was indicated that the higher aesthetic consciousness leads to the higher importance in the whole harmony, face, body shape, and skin. On the other hand, it was indicated that the lower aesthetic consciousness leads to the more thinking of the inside as valuable. Also, most of female undergraduates thought that beautiful appearance has influence upon forming human relations. Thus, the outward appearance was indicated to become an important judgment criterion for friendly evaluation in social life. Given examining the substantial beauty-care behaviors in subjects of this study, those are as follows. First, as for skin-care behavior in research subjects, there are many opinions that the female undergraduate with the higher aesthetic consciousness leads to the higher interest in skin, and on the other hand, to which‘healthy condition in skin is not good,’ thereby having been indicated to be dissatisfied with the present skin condition. In order to improve this skin condition, the female undergraduates showed aspect of using cleansing agent exclusively for washing face, washing face with tepid water, or using sun-block agent, but indicated low frequency in removing horny substance in skin, massaging, using functional cosmetics, using skin-care center, which are the actual improvement methods. Thus, most of female undergraduates were indicated the skin-care behavior whose use is simple and basic rather than a highly-priced care method. Second, as for weight-control behavior in research subjects, most of female undergraduates showed normal weight. On the other hand, the higher aesthetic consciousness led to the greater dissatisfaction with body shape. As for a method of substantial weight control, 72% of them were indicated to take walking exercise or to control meal quantity. However, some of them took anorexigenic agents or diet food side by side given suffering difficulty in weight control. Most of subjects, whose weight is normal, showed aspect of perceiving self as‘fat’ in this way, thereby having been indicated to have the distorted recognition on body shape, which results in continuing to lose weight, without being satisfied with own body shape. Third, the cosmetic-surgery behavior in research subjects showed that the higher aesthetic consciousness leads to the more positive intention of surgery. Reasons for desiring cosmetic surgery included‘self-satisfaction’ with 44.7% and‘dissatisfaction with the present appearance’ with 41.9%. Thus, cosmetic surgery was dicated to be desired as a means of improving the present appearance. Substantially, 28% of subjects were indicated to have the eye cosmetic surgery and to prefer the skin cosmetic surgery and the eye cosmetic surgery the most as regions with future intention of surgery. It was indicated that the higher interest in beauty leads to being the more friendly in cosmetic surgery.