Skin and skin substitute

Skin is a living, complex, and evolving material, at the heart of countless industrial challenges: cosmetics, biomedical, technical textiles, and even testing devices. Working with skin tissues or their substitutes (animal skins, artificial skins, biomaterials, synthetic skins) involves understanding and mastering their multifactorial properties: mechanical, sensory, tribological, thermal, and even biochemical.

At Rheonis, we help industrial and R&D players to reveal and control the behavior of skins and skin substitutes in contexts of transformation, application, implementation and sensory evaluation.

Your challenges: mastering the product/application/skin triptych

• Mastering variability mechanical and sensory properties between batches or origins of skins/substitutes

• Evaluate sustainability against mechanical, thermal, chemical or environmental stresses

• Characterize the sensations (texture, flexibility, roughness, comfort) to link material and user experience

• Develop and validate measurement methods adapted to the specificities of skin tissues and biomaterials

• Accelerating innovation in support of cosmetic formulation, biomedical testing or textile design

Our services for skin and skin substitutes

• Mastering variability mechanical and sensory properties between batches or origins of skins/substitutes

• Evaluate sustainability against mechanical, thermal, chemical or environmental stresses

• Characterize the sensations (texture, flexibility, roughness, comfort) to link material and user experience

• Develop and validate measurement methods adapted to the specificities of skin tissues and biomaterials

• Accelerating innovation in support of cosmetic formulation, biomedical testing or textile design

Application areas

• Cosmetics : care, makeup, hygiene, sensory evaluation

• Biomedical : skin substitutes, dressings, medical devices

• Textiles and leather : materials in contact with the skin, comfort and durability

• Testing and research : animal substitution protocols, validation of skin models

Useful links

• Design of an instrumental method for studying the effects of fillers on skin explants
• Skin (Wikipedia)

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