Neutrogena's iPhone 'SkinScanner' Analyzes Pores, Moisture, Wrinkles

Struggling with your pare? Neutrogena's high-tech solution might assist.

CES 2022 bug art Alee of CES, the company on Friday unveiled a new device chosen SkinScanner, which attaches to your iPhone and uses 12 LED lights, sensors, and a 30x magnification lens to clarify the wellness of your skin. The device, created in partnership with a startup called FitSkin, works in conjunction with a new app called Skin360.

Together, the Skin360 app and SkinScanner device can "requite users an in-depth understanding of their skin's status and needs, customized communication to address those needs, plus a articulate manner to track and appraise skin's progress over fourth dimension," the skin care make wrote in a news release.

Hither's how it works: You lot adhere the device to the top of your iPhone and gently press it against your face. The sensors volition and so clarify your skin, taking into business relationship moisture levels, pore size and advent, and wrinkle length and depth, to requite y'all a Skin360 Score, which you tin keep rails of over time. Users will also become personalized skin care advice, based on the results.

"Shopping for skincare products can be an overwhelming and confusing experience for our consumer considering she is uncertain about what her skin really needs," Sebastien Guillon, global president of beauty for Neutrogena parent Johnson & Johnson Consumer, said in a argument. "Smart and connected technology helps u.s.a. provide our consumer with personalized analyses and data she needs in real time so she tin make decisions that will help her achieve her all-time peel ever."

The Skin360 app and SkinScanner tool volition be available for purchase exclusively on Neutrogena's website later this yr for $49.99, the company said.

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Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's expert on fitness and smart home products. Teaching yoga for well-nigh 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela also tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, only to name a few.