Forty-five female healthy non-smoking women, between 18 and
65 years, with sensitive and dry skin were recruited by the
Institute of Experimental Dermatology, and selected according
to their skin type: dry skin; Corneometer value ,40 au(15).
Exclusion criteria were: pregnancy and breast-feeding, history
of fat malabsorption, liver diseases, diseases regarding lipid
metabolism or any photosensitizing disorder. BMI of the participants
was between 18 and 25 kg/m2, they did not take lipid or
vitamin supplements or any other medication.