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Cosmetology and Beauty Therapy

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Cosmetology and Beauty Therapy encompasses skincare, haircare, and aesthetic treatments. This hub provides practice questions related to cosmetic chemistry, skin anatomy, and specialized treatments like hair removal. It is a valuable resource for students preparing for vocational and aesthetician certification exams.

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Cosmetology and Beauty Therapy Questions

Multiple choice

Which is not a use of parrafin wax?

  1. Candles making

  2. Releives arthritis

  3. Can not be used as preservative

  4. Skin treatments
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Parrafin is used as a component in , protecting foods such as jellies and cheeses. It is added to foods as a preservative and to make the food more attractive. Many chocolates and sweets, for example, contain paraffin wax to give the candy a shiny coating. The wax also stops moisture from leaving the coated candy, keeping the candy moist and less likely to spoil in unrefrigerated conditions.

Multiple choice

Roots of hair are located in the

  1. epidermis of skin

  2. reticular region of dermis

  3. papillary region of dermis

  4. hypodermis of skin
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

 Dermis has two layers and roots of hair is present in the inner dermal layer called reticular region.

Multiple choice

Which of the following creams is an emulsion of oil and water?

  1. Cleansing creams

  2. Bleaching creams

  3. Vanishing cream

  4. Cold creams

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Cold cream is an emulsion where the oil component is predominant. Oils may be almond oil, lanolin oil, paraffin oil and bees wax. Cold creams also contain water, a little perfume oil and borax. This borax enables emulsification.

Multiple choice

Which of the following creams is used for lightening dark skin?

  1. Vanishing cream

  2. Bleaching cream

  3. Cleansing cream

  4. Cold cream
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Bleaching creams lighten or bleach dark skin. Skin colour is determined by melanin formation. Bleaching creams act on melanin and reduce the normal pigmentation of the skin.

Multiple choice

Edema is known as

  1. odema

  2. dropsy

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Edema is the medical term for fluid retention in tissues, which is historically and colloquially referred to as dropsy. Odema is simply a variant spelling of edema.

Multiple choice

Dermatoglyphics is connected with

  1. Skin diseases

  2. Care of skin

  3. Gsmetics

  4. Finger printing
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Dermatoglyphics is the scientific study of fingerprints, lines, mounts, and shapes of hands, while some regard dermatoglyphics as a variant on the pseudoscience of palmistry

Multiple choice

Directions: Which of the following options does not bear the same relationship as that in the given pair.

DERMATOLOGIST : SKIN

  1. Advocate : Legal

  2. Optometrist : Eyes

  3. Oncologist : Joints

  4. Cardiologist : Heart

  5. Podiatrist : Feet
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

(Specialist: Field of specialization) Dermatologist is a specialist connected with skin. But oncology (study of cancer) is not related to joints, so it’s an odd pair and our correct answer too. 

Multiple choice

The outer skin is known as

  1. endodermis

  2. epidermis

  3. dermis

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Skin has many layers and its outer most layer is known as epidermis.