Viability assay in Vero cells treated with natural and blanched skin extracts. The cell viability was determined on the basis of ATP levels using the ViaLight™ plus cell proliferation and cytotoxicity bioassay kit (Lonza Group Ltd., Basel, Switzerland). Vero cells were treated with three different concentrations of NS and BS almond extracts (0.4 mg/mL, 0.2 mg/mL and 0.1 mg/mL). 24 h post-treatment, they were collected, and the luminescence value was converted into the cell proliferation index (%) as described in the Materials and Methods. The assay was performed as the means of triplicates ± SD.