Segmented Cosmetic Mask with Heatless Printing for Targeted Skin Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional facial sheet masks cannot target specific skin areas with multiple skin benefit agents, as they are designed to treat the entire face uniformly, failing to address unique skin concerns such as oily T-zones, dry areas, lines, and hyper-pigmentation spots simultaneously.
Innovation Solution
A computerized system that captures images of the user's skin, generates a customized skin profile, and prints cosmetic delivery sheets with multiple discrete regions, each containing specific skin benefit agents tailored to address different skin conditions, using a heatless printing mechanism to preserve the agents' biological activity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional facial sheet masks are fully impregnated with active ingredients and applied to the entire face, then the entire face receives treatment, but specific skin areas cannot be targeted with different skin benefit agents
Solution Approach 1:
The mask is divided into multiple discrete regions, each impregnated with different skin benefit agents tailored to specific skin concerns. The mask substrate includes first, second, third, and fourth regions with distinct active ingredients for treating different areas such as T-zone, cheek, eye, and lip regions separately
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the mask have different properties by being impregnated with specific skin benefit agents suited for particular skin areas. For example, oil-controlling agents are applied to T-zone regions while moisturizing agents are applied to cheek regions, providing locally optimized treatment
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple skin benefit agents are mixed in a single composition for full facial masks, then application is simplified, but the ability to address different skin concerns in different areas is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The mask is segmented into multiple functional regions, each containing specific skin benefit agents for different skin concerns. This allows simultaneous treatment of multiple skin issues across different facial areas without requiring separate applications
Solution Approach 2:
The single mask substrate serves multiple functions by incorporating different skin benefit agents in different regions, enabling it to treat various skin concerns simultaneously across the entire face in one application
3Productivity
If heat-based printing methods are used to apply skin benefit agents to the mask, then printing efficiency is high, but the biological activity of the active ingredients degrades
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces thermal printing mechanisms with a non-thermal printing method that deposits skin benefit agents without applying heat, thereby preserving the biological activity of the active ingredients while still achieving efficient application to the mask substrate
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AI summary
A system and method are provided for targeted and individualized delivery of multiple skin benefit agents to the skin of a user. The image of a predetermined treatment area of the user's skin is first captured by an imaging device. Selective data input from analysis tools and the end user is then analyzed by a computing device to generate a unique skin profile for the user, which is indicative of the skin conditions at the predetermined treatment area. Based on such skin profile, a printing device prints out one or more cosmetic delivery sheets that can be applied to the predetermined treatment area. Each of the cosmetic delivery sheets contains a substrate with multiple isolate, discrete regions, while at least two of the regions are imprinted with different skin benefit agents for treating different skin conditions of the predetermined treatment area according to the unique skin profile of the user.