“…15 Certain individuals report more intense and frequently adverse dermatologic sensations (a phenomenon known in popular usage as sensitive skin), particularly upon exposure to cosmetics, toiletries, and topical medicaments. 16,17 These "sensitive skin" patients report stinging, itching, burning, and dryness 18 over a wide spectrum of intensities 19 that is sometimes accompanied by erythema, desquamation, papules, wheals, and scaling. Self-reports of skin sensitivity, however, are often not verifiable by clinical signs of irritation, 20 and patients who deny subjective discomfort can sometimes demonstrate strong objective response to a given irritant.…”