“…Individuals with sensitive skin frequently report reddening of their skin [15,35,37,38,43,44,49,57,58]. Therefore, the assessment of erythema in skin irritation has been widely investigated, either by visual assessment [28,37,41,59,60] or by quantitative methods such as tristimulus reflectance colorimetry (a* value) [20,50,51,52], reflectance spectrophotometry (erythema index) [38,53,59] or laser Doppler flowmetry (cutaneous blood flow) [20,41,48,50,51,53,61].…”