90 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS CALL FOR PAPERS 1978 ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS Prospective authors are asked to submit abstracts of papers of 200 words or less immediately for the 1978 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists to be held November 30th and December 1st, at The Waldorf- Astoria in New York City. The Program Co-Chairmen, Robert Raymond and Dr. Peter Sgaramella, have issued a Call for Papers the subject for the papers is open. All abstracts of papers should be sent to either the Program Co-Chairmen or the SCC office at: Society of Cosmetic Chemists, 50 East 41st Street, New York, NY 10017. The Society of Cosmetic Chemists Award sponsored by Perry Brothers, Division of Mallinckrodt, will be awarded to the best paper presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting. The award will be $1,000. In addition, if the special panel choosing the awardee feels that other papers are deserving of special recognition, they may, at their discretion and with the approval of the Board of Directors of the Society, present one or two additional awards of $500 each to papers designated as Honorable Mentions. To be considered for the awards, all papers must be submitted to the award committee in manuscript form at least 4 weeks prior to the actual presentation. November 1st is the deadline for the 1978 Annual Meeting. The award committee will consider relevance to our industry, originality and presentation in choosing an awardee.

J. Soc. Cosmet. Chem., 29, 91-98 (February 1978) The panel study as a scientifically controlled investigation: moisturizers and superficial facial lines ELIAS W. PACKMAN*, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, 43 rd Street, Woodland Avenue and Kingsessing Mall, Philadelphia, PA 19104 and EUGENE H. GANS**, Dermatology/Toiletry R&D, Vick Divisions Research and Development, One Bradford Road, Mount Vernon, NY 10553. Received June 14, 1977. Synopsis Characteristic features of the CONTROLLED STUDY (randomized treatment, comparison agent, blinded evaluation) were incorporated into a panel investigation of the objective effects of five topical MOISTURIZERS, water, or no treatment on SUPERFICIAL FACIAL LINES, as perceived by a 12- member untrained CONSUMER EVALUATION PANEL, assessing the skin of a separate group of subjects who used the test materials. The method proved sufficiently sensitive in almost 900 single-blind, half-face comparative evaluations to demonstrate that: 1. Under the conditions of the scientific investigation, a consumer panel composed of normal users who have not been trained as professional evaluators can detect and visually evaluate the effect of moisturizers on other consumers, thereby providing an important estimate of consumer relevance to cosmetic perfor- mance. 2. The technique is sensitive enough to detect the differing degrees of performance that existed among the various treatments. 3. Three of the five moisturizers studied were significantly superior to water, which in turn was assessed more favorably than no treatment. 4. The extent of effectiveness existing for a particular cosmetic tended to prevail throughout the study group and was not concentrated in particular subjects. INTRODUCTION The evaluation of a cosmetic preparation, whose benefit is to be perceived by the user, gives rise to a distinctive problem for the investigator. This is different from the clinician's problem of confirming objectively an effect on an organic malfunction, perhaps a condition improved by an action not readily perceived subjectively by the *Professor in Pharmacology. **Vice President & Director. 91