The purpose of cosmetic products and procedures is to maintain healthy, vitalized skin. It can be achieved by enhancement of skin’s vital function, increasing coetaneous blood micro-circulation and outflow of cells’ waste products with blood and lymph. In other words, it is called detoxication (Belemkiy V., 2000).

Skin is a complicated and essential organ of human body. It functions as an indicating screen of human’s health. However, practical medicine has been always focused mostly on studying of internal organs and expensive technologies have been developed for diagnostics of organs’ related diseases. Very often, in cosmetology, selection of techniques and remedies is based not on real effectiveness, but on marketing and advertising tricks.

Skin temperature is one of the most important characteristics that we can use for evaluation of organism’s functioning. By using thermal vision, we can observe which parts of patient’s skin are healthy and which are not. Thereby, we can estimate the efficiency of cosmetic procedures and remedies with better accuracy (patent of the Russian Federation #2142634 from 10.12.99). Accordingly, by using CEM^®ThermoDiagnostics personal thermograph, we can also evaluate skin’s condition.

As an example, let’s look at such widespread cosmetic defect as cellulitis. This is a mutation of adipose tissue, which is a part of skin’s composition, specifically characteristic for women. As a result, skin’s surface changes into pit-and-mount pattern. In many cases, it is not only cosmetic defect, but also an illness requiring treatment. Cellulitis affects women of different sizes and appearances. Fat is usually located on hips, arms, legs, and abdomen. In affected parts of the body, collagen tissues look like “orange peel”, without intersections that are characteristic for healthy parts of the skin.  Such cellular tissues are filled with fat deposits consisting of toxins, which push the skin up and outside (stretch the skin). It slows movements of fluid. Consequently, the hormones which are carrying out fat from the body cannot reach fat cells and toxins accumulate in them. The research performed at Milan University has demonstrated that in the course of time, toxicity and fluid pressure destroy the cells.

Four stages of cellulitis are known:

• At the first stage, cellulitis cannot be seen. A woman can feel like she put on some weight. Due to the stagnation of fluid in lymphatic vessels, skin looks a bit swollen, nevertheless, it remains smooth.
• At the second stage of cellulitis development the venous system cannot cope with the amount of fluid which must be taken out of the organism. The fluid accumulates and constricts the veins, thus, closing down the outflow. Fat deposition becomes dense. As oxygen stops entering inside, connective tissue in a form of honeycomb starts developing.
• At the third stage “honeycombs” spread only over few cells. At the first sight, the skin still seems natural but “orange peel” appears when pursing the skin.
• At the fourth stage the cellulitis can be clearly seen. It can give uncomfortable sensations to a woman and sometimes, it even hurts. Parts of the skin affected by cellulitis are cold and bluish.

Correct and timely diagnostics gives best treatment results. Till recent time, diagnostics of cellulitis was only based on visual examination by a doctor. The doctor would measure the thickness of cellulitis affected skin areas (plicotometry). However, this method cannot detect cellulitis at early stages.

As cellulitis results in the blood circulation disturbance, the temperature of affected skin changes, appear warmer and colder areas.