Method and apparatus for analyzing skin and hair

A system for assessment of skin or hair conditions, comprising:

• a skin or hair sample substrate for capturing a skin or hair sample;
• a chemical reagent for identification of one or more skin or hair components that correlates to a skin or hair condition, wherein the chemical reagent is provided in dry form;
• an image capture device for taking one or more images of the reaction between a chemical reagent and the one or more skin or hair components;
• capturing the one or more images;
• storing the one or more images in a memory device;
• and
• correlating the levels of component to a skin or a hair condition by determining the presence, absence or amount of a reaction in the sample.

An apparatus for analyzing skin and hair samples of a person, comprising:

• a skin or hair sample capture substrate;
• a chemical reagent for identification of specific biochemical components therein;
• an image capture device capable of capturing one or more one image with one or more light sources;
• and
• a memory storage device;
• wherein the image is analyzed for the present, absence or amount of the specific biochemical components from an image captured electronically.

A system for testing residual versus innate products and by products of the skin comprising:

• a skin or hair sample capture substrate;
• a chemical reagent for identification of specific biochemical components therein;
• an image capture device capable of capturing one or more one image with one or more light sources;
• and
• a memory storage device;
• wherein the image is analyzed for the present, absence or amount of the specific biochemical components from an image captured electronically.

A system for measuring the amount of U.V. blockage of a cosmetic comprising:

• a skin sample capture substrate with a fluorescent background;
• an image capture device capable of capturing one or more one image with one or more ultraviolet light sources;
• a memory storage device;
• wherein the image is analyzed for background fluorescence from an image captured electronically.

A method of analyzing skin and hair sample biochemistry comprising:

• obtaining a skin or hair sample on a capture medium;
• capturing one or more skin or hair sample images in the visible or non-visible light spectrum using light emitting diodes;
• storing the image in an electronic medium;
• and
• correlating the presence, absence or amount of a specific skin component with skin condition into a skin condition dataset.