Every week there are news releases about new ingredients that have anti-aging properties. The new ingredients have different properties, boosting collagen synthesis, fading pigmented areas, antioxidant power or whatever. However, for the any anti-aging ingredient there is a problem. How is it going to penetrate the surface layer and get to the right area in [...]
Category Archives: Skin
Non-Surgical Treatments That Improve Wrinkles Include Growth Factors!
March 24, 2010 – 1:19 pm
Which non-surgical treatments improve wrinkles and other signs of aging skin ? This is certainly a question that has all sorts of opinions. Half the new skin care products and many of the old ones claim to help reverse skin aging. Harvard Medical School, in their Healthbeat, has picked the non-surgical treatments that they think [...]
For Skin Care Products Are Big Or Small Companies Better?
March 19, 2010 – 8:37 am
For the best skin care products are big or small companies better? Which type and size of company provides the best ingredients, quality control and value? There is a great post on The Beauty Brains about this topic. Intuitively you might think that a small little beauty company would provide better products than a corporate [...]
Lactobionic Acid: A New(ish) Less Irritating Skin Peel Agent
March 4, 2010 – 9:38 pm
Recently, there has been s search for acids for skin peel applications that are not as harsh as glycolic acid. A newish alpha hydroxy acid that is gaining some good reviews is lactobionic acid. Another alpha hydroxy acid that has been found to be less irritating, and is in a few products, is mandelic acid. [...]
How Effective Are Olay Pro-X Products?
February 16, 2010 – 10:08 pm
The Olay lines of products are widely available and widely used. There are several ranges of anti-aging products including Olay Pro-X. A yet-to-be published research study (Br J Dermatol 162:647-654, 2010) is reported in Cosmetics Design. This study suggests that using the Olay Pro-X line of products is as effective as using a prescription retinoid. [...]
Lipofuscin: The Next Target For Age Spot Lightening
February 11, 2010 – 9:44 pm
Age spots, sun spots, liver spots – whatever you want to call them are a sign of aging skin. Too much exposure to the sun can make them worse but they can still appear without sun exposure. Mibelle Biochemistry, a company that is based in Switzerland, is a supplier of cosmetic ingredients. I have written [...]
Polyphenols In Skin Products
February 7, 2010 – 9:52 pm
Every new skincare product seems to have several botanicals in its ingredient list. As an avid researcher of ingredient lists, I do quite a few searches to find out what the botanicals are, and what their potential benefit to the product may be. There is seems to be new “wonder” plants in the news every [...]
Red Anti-Aging Sugar-Coated (Lycopene) Tablet For Skin
January 20, 2010 – 9:03 pm
How about an anti-aging sugar-coated tablet that slows aging of skin? A red pill that has a sugar coating is already available in parts of Europe and in South America. The pill is an extract of tomato, and is high in lycopene. The red color of tomatoes is due to lycopene. It is a carotenoid, [...]
New Product: Olay Anti-Aging Body Wash
January 12, 2010 – 9:31 pm
There will soon be a new body wash by Olay. This new body wash is aimed at the anti-aging market. The news item states that it is a 7-in-1 product. Presumably this means that it has 7 potentially anti-aging compounds and extracts in it. It is said to remove dead cells, improve elasticity of the [...]
Madecassoside: Effective Anti-Aging For Skin
January 7, 2010 – 1:06 pm
Madecassoside is a compound that can be extracted from Centella asiatica, which is often also called Gotu kola. Gotu kola is used as medicine and eaten throughout India and South East Asia, where it has different names in different areas. It has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for at least a thousand years. It used [...]