Patent ID: 7066006

Claim:
A method of measuring the soothing ability of a test facial tissue, the method comprising: (a) providing a test subject; (b) performing a skin damage induction phase including: (1) providing an abrasive material for inducing damage to a skin area around the nose of the test subject; (2) predetermining an amount of damage to be induced onto the skin area; and (3) using the abrasive material to induce damage onto the skin area utilizing a damage inducing cycle (4) determining the level of damage on the area of skin induced by the abrasive material by the test subject after the damage inducing cycle; (5) repeating steps (b3) and (b4) until the test subject determines that the predetermined level of damage has been induced; (c) performing a contacting phase including: (1) providing a test facial tissue; (2) contacting the damaged area of skin with the test facial tissue including wiping the test facial tissue on the damged area of skin utilizing at least one contacting cycle; and (3) rating the amount of soothing of the test facial tissue by the test subject after each contacting cycle.