Exploring the quality of life of cosmetic users: A cross‐sectional analysis from eight Arab countries in the Middle East

Mohammed, Ali Haider; Hassan, Bassam Abdul Rasool; Wayyes, Abdulrasool M.; Al-Tukmagi, Haydar F.; Blebil, Ali Qais; Dujaili, Juman Abdulelah; Nasr, Muhammed Hassan; Hajj, Maguy Saffouh El; Malaeb, Diana; Alhija, Sara Abu; Kateeb, Elham; Amro, Ahmad; Al‐Taweel, Dalal; Juma, Muna Arif Al; Al-Ani, Omar Abdulwahid; Farhan, Sinan Subhi; Darwish, Rula M.; Al-Zaabi, Ahmed Talib

doi:10.1111/jocd.15085

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“…This comprised the largest beauty shoppers among makeup stalls. Similarly, study had found that majority of the cosmetics users are those who attained tertiary level of education [13] . This suggests that the consumers of makeup were individuals who reached bachelor's degree.…”

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Masking the natural beauty: Cosmetic utilization and self-confidence of registered nurses working in Riyadh hospitals

Alfarra,

Alenazi,

Jamthmi

et al. 2024

Int. J. Adv. Res. Nurs.

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Make up plays a vital role to perceived social reactions either on the perception of oneself or the perceptions of others. It facilitates adornment as perceived by the people around. It part of one's own motivation in order to pursue the "visual centrality" of looks in the society. Since the women dominate the nursing workforce, this triggers the researchers to focus on the registered nurses who used cosmetics while performing their duties in the hospital. This provoked the researcher to focus on the cosmetic utilization and self-confidence among nurses. This research used a quantitative, descriptive correlational design to determine the relationship between the cosmetics utilization and self-confidence of registered nurses working in Riyadh hospitals. The purposive sampling technique was used in selecting the 392 total samples. Pearson product moment correlation and Analysis of variance were used to test the hypotheses. Findings shows that majority of nurses used cosmetics for beautification which they perceived as facial attractiveness an external view of others towards them. Most nurses were high make up users (24%) to low make up users (29%). Majority of the nurses have high level of self-confidence representing 82% of the total population. In conclusion, the cosmetic utilization has a moderate positive correlation with their self-confidence level. Age and marital status is a predictor in using the cosmetics while age and employment type is highly significant in the nurses' self-confidence.

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Masking the natural beauty: Cosmetic utilization and self-confidence of registered nurses working in Riyadh hospitals

Alfarra,

Alenazi,

Jamthmi

et al. 2024

Int. J. Adv. Res. Nurs.

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“…In this context, in 2012 the BeautyQoL was designed to assess the impact of cosmetic products on quality of life [49,51] and was already used to evaluate the impact of cosmetics in specific groups (e.g. cosmetic consumer in the Middle East [52]). Additional published studies evaluating single cosmetic products using this instrument are to our knowledge not available up to now, especially in terms of skin cleansing.…”

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Five dimensions of cleansing: A holistic view on the facets and importance of skin cleansing

Blaak,

Grabmann,

Simon

et al. 2023

Intern J of Cosmetic Sci

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Cleansing is an important human ritual practised for hygiene, well‐being and relaxation over centuries. As part of body care it is often taken for granted, yet its relevance cannot be underestimated. Although cleansing the skin may seem trivial to some, it is accepted, that this fundamental function of skin cleansing products is highly complex, diverse and crucial for a variety of reasons in the personal, public, healthcare and dermatological settings. Employing a comprehensive and strategic approach in viewing cleansing and its rituals, supports innovation, understanding and development. Apart from being a fundamental function, as far as we know, there is no comprehensive presentation of skin cleansing with all its effects besides ‘removing dirt’. To our knowledge, comprehensive analyses on the multi‐dimensional facets of skin cleansing are either rare or not published. Against this background, we examine the importance of cleansing in terms of function, relevance and concepts. First, the key functions and efficacies of skin cleansing were investigated by literature research. Based on this survey, the functions were analysed, sorted and merged and a novel approach to skin cleansing ‘dimensions’ was developed. Herewith, we took into consideration the evolution of skin cleansing in terms of concept evolution, complexity and testing methods for cleansing products and their claims. Several multi‐dimensional functions of skin cleansing were identified and then established into five skin cleansing dimensions, namely: hygienic and medical importance; socio‐cultural and interpersonal relevance; mood, emotion and well‐being; cosmetic and aesthetic function; corneobiological interactions. It became obvious, that these five dimensions with their corresponding 11 sub‐dimensions, are influenced by each other throughout history by culture and society, technical progress, scientific knowledge and consumer trends. This article presents the enormous complexity of skin cleansing. Skin cleansing has evolved from basic care up to a highly complex and diverse cosmetic product category in terms of technology, efficacy and usage routine(s). In view of future challenges, such as the effects of climate and associated lifestyle changes, the development of skin cleansing will remain an exciting and important topic and thus will finally, again, further increase the complexity of skin cleansing itself.

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“…There was evidence that women performed better in the recognition of minor modifications in facial skin than men ( Samson et al, 2010b ). This difference may be explained by the fact that the main consumers of cosmetic and facial beauty treatments are women ( Jin et al, 2022 ; Mohammed et al, 2022 ), making them to be more sensitive to facial skin conditions. Male and female judgments of male and female faces were mostly consistent in this study.…”

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Your face looks the same as before, only prettier: The facial skin homogeneity effects on face change detection and facial attractiveness perception

Sun

Zhang

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Previous studies suggested that (1) facial attractiveness perception can be increased with facial skin homogeneity improving; and (2) human’s facial change detection increases along with facial skin homogeneity increases. However, it’s unknown whether a face can be perceived prettier than it did before while still being considered as physically the same. It is possible that these two kinds of cognitive-aesthetic processing may have separate mathematical functions in psychophysical studies. In other words, human’s facial attractiveness differentiation may be more sensitive than facial change detection. In this current study, we explored the above questions. Using three types of psychophysical techniques to manipulate facial skin homogeneity, we measured how participants’ sensitivity to facial skin homogeneity and attractiveness change. Results showed a linear function curve for facial physical change detection and a logarithmic function curve was drawn in the forced-choice technique, which was the most sensitive one, indicating that participants can judge a face prettier than before without being aware of it has physically changed. Besides, two linear function curves were shown in the same/different technique and a rating technique. Taken together, this current study revealed that facial attractiveness can be enhanced and discriminated by improving facial skin homogeneity, without being realized by people with conscious awareness that the face has been changed.

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Exploring the quality of life of cosmetic users: A cross‐sectional analysis from eight Arab countries in the Middle East

Cited by 7 publications

References 41 publications

Masking the natural beauty: Cosmetic utilization and self-confidence of registered nurses working in Riyadh hospitals

Masking the natural beauty: Cosmetic utilization and self-confidence of registered nurses working in Riyadh hospitals

Five dimensions of cleansing: A holistic view on the facets and importance of skin cleansing

Your face looks the same as before, only prettier: The facial skin homogeneity effects on face change detection and facial attractiveness perception

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