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Section 1 – Skin Ageing

Research and discuss the process of skin ageing and the changes that occur in the skin, incorporating the major skin chemicals.

1. Outline the growth, development and ageing of human skin starting with mitosis, cell division and differentiation . List the different stages of aging and describe how the skin changes as you age. Include the changes that occur in proteins : (collagen, elastin and keratin) lipids and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs)

2. Discuss three factors that contribute to the ageing process

Section 2 – Wound healing

The process of wound healing involves several beauty treatments :

1 Outline your understanding of the wound healing process giving reference to the different stages

2 Describe how a scar occurs and list three factors that influence the scarring process

3 Name two beauty therapy treatments that involve the wound healing mechanism to occur.

Section 3 – Inherited skin conditions and the role of the endocrine system

1 List three skin conditions and one hair condition that are said to be genetically inherited and discuss how these conditions could relate to the performance of a beauty treatment

2 Describe three effects the endocrine system and hormones could have on the skin or hair. Discuss how these effects could relate to our beauty treatments.

Section 4 – Percutaneous absorption

The role of percutaneous absorption in beauty treatments is important as it has the potential to affect the major skin chemicals of the skin.

1 Outline the different absorption pathways that products could penetrate the skin

2 Discuss the different factors that affect the rates and ability for absorption to occur

3 Name a beauty treatment that involves product absorption. Describe the changes that could occur in the skin from the treatment.