618 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS Figure 6. Scanning electron micrograh of water-soaked skin. Wolfram, Wolejsza and Laden (8). Bar represents 167 t•m simultaneously enhancing the roughness and bumpiness within each cluster (Fig. 6). Ether extraction followed by water elution causes a further elevation in the height and number of protuberances ( Fig. 7). The grooves between [he subdivisions spread and have become accentuated, while the surface has be- come stretched and made taut. These SEM observations (8) strongly sub- stantiate the conclnsion drawn from gravimetric (1, 2) and biomechanical (7-9) analyses that removal of lipids and NMF results in enhanced water

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