Studies on sensory terms of nourishing creams - Classification by cluster analysis.

Sensory evaluation is an effective method in cosmetic studies, however, it sometimes gives unsuitable sensory profiles of cosmetic samples when the terms are unfit for the purpose. Therefore it is necessory that the sensory terms are discussed in detail and carefully selected for fitting the purpose. In this sense it is expected to study the sensory terms and their relations.We report the classification of the sensory terms using cluster analysis of the sensory evaluation data with 48 nourishing creams and a panel of 99 women.