Nutrition
Volume 17, Issue 10 , Pages 839-844 , October 2001

Role of vitamins in skin care

  • Stanley S. Shapiro, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Johnson & Johnson, Consumer Products Worldwide, Skin Research Center, Skillman, New Jersey, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Stanley S. Shapiro, Johnson & Johnson, Corporate Office of Science and Technology, GS1136, 410 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
    • ,
  • Claude Saliou, PhD (PharmD)

      Affiliations

    • Johnson & Johnson, Consumer Products Worldwide, Skin Research Center, Skillman, New Jersey, USA

,Accepted 8 June 2001.

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