It's a crowded world out there, especially if you're a wrinkle-reduction cream.
But if you're an entrepreneur, you've got to believe there's always space on the shelf for one more serum.
Introducing Harvey Daniels and Jerry Chafetz, two locals with backgrounds in sales and marketing, who recently launched S-Solutions, a skin care line developed and made in South Florida.
''I'm so glad to be in this business,'' said Daniels, 36, who used to sell luxury real estate. ``It's a $64-billion industry, you know.''
Chafetz and Daniels teamed up with Sharon E. Perlow, a naturalistic practitioner in Aventura, after they met her coincidentally, they said, and were inspired by her scientific knowledge.
Professional formulators, meanwhile, created the products.
''The ultimate, hands-down goal of S-Solutions is to provide the ultimate anti-aging skin care to the public, with cutting edge technology and the most advanced ingredients found in the marketplace,'' Daniels wrote in an e-mail from his Michigan Avenue office.
Chafetz, 49, earned his MBA at Arizona State University and started Onboard Media, which sold clothing and skin care products to cruise lines. He sold Onboard in 2000.
He took care of the S-Solutions' business plan and marketing. Daniels handled design and branding.
The line is a sharp, modern mix of white, red and black packaging. It contains 10 products.
Items cost $25 to $275, and the entire line can be had for $670. Ranging from facial scrubs to serums and creams, ingredients include Gotu Kola, an Asian herb, and a combination of green and white tea extracts.
They call their target demographic the ''type-S personality,'' Daniels said, ``someone who is into looking good, who is image-conscious and brand-oriented.''
Daniels loves his new line of work. ''It's amazing what I've learned in the last year, working with Sharon and the dermatologists,'' he said. ``Since it was going to be my business, I figured I better sink my teeth into it.''
by:www.miamiherald.com
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
New skin care line zeroes in on aging
Skin Care- Acid Mantle Is The Main factor - Part 1
C.D. Mohatta
June 20, 2007
Skin care does not only mean keeping skin clean, using skin care products, applying cosmetics, avoiding sun and getting surgery done for skin blemishes. Acid mantle of the skin plays a major role in protection of skin and must be understood for better skin care. Let us find out more about what is acid mantle and what role it plays in skin care.
What is acid mantle?
Skin has a protective layer of acidic oils on it, called the acid mantle. This protective layer is found all over the skin. Acid mantle is a mixture of sweat and sebum. Disturbing this acidic mantle may cause many problems. That is why, we hear so much about pH balanced products. Acid mantle-
1. Hydrates the skin and protects it from drying.
2. Protects skin against harmful bacteria. Bacteria do not survive in the acidic mixture and therefore cannot cause infection in the skin.
How acid mantle is destroyed?
If you strip the skin of its acidic mantle by using strong alkaline soaps/cleansers, bacteria will find it easy to attack the skin. Moreover removing the acid mantle disturbs the distribution of dead cells on top of epidermis. This is called stratum corneum. The structure of cells in the dead skin cells layer gets disturbed and the bacteria find an easy passage through to the epidermis. Normally these dead cells protect the skin against such damages. The skin is a miracle. These dead cells if allowed to accumulate will make the skin look very bad, but if totally removed, the skin is left defenseless to an extent. We have to arrive at a fine balance in maintenance of the skin. In the next part we will discuss about how to protect acid mantle.
This article is only for informative purposes. This article is not intended to be a medical advise and it is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Please consult your doctor for your medical concerns. Please follow any tip given in this article only after consulting your doctor. The author is not liable for any outcome or damage resulting from information obtained from this article.
by:www.americanchronicle.com
Anti-Aging 'Miracle Serum' All the Rage in London
They stand in line outside pharmacies from before dawn. They're hoping, dreaming, wanting.
"Can I buy two?" asked a hopeful, elderly gentleman.
"No, just one," came the curt reply.
He pleaded, "I've got a wife and a daughter, you see."
The pharmacy chain Boots had given "Nightline" a tip that a shipment of an anti-aging serum was arriving at a store on London's Oxford Street early one morning. Men and women young and old came crawling.
"Well, obviously for the wife. Not for me," spluttered a nervous man in his early 40s.
The shipment of serum lasted less than two hours. Many left unsatisfied.
"Some of them get upset," a sales clerk explained. "Because they've been waiting for a while and when they get here it's finished already."
Protect and Perfect
Since time began people have been trying to reverse its ravages. Now Stewart Long, a mild-mannered product developer at Boots, thinks he cracked it. It's a serum called No. 7 Protect and Perfect.
"It makes your skin visibly younger looking in four weeks," Long said with confidence at his laboratory in Nottingham, England.
People believe him because Dr. Rachel Watson -- a renowned dermatology researcher at the University of Manchester -- endorsed the serum in an academic paper and then on television. She specializes in sun damage and skin aging.
My first question when I met Watson was this: Do you use this serum? The reply: "Yes, I do actually."
Protect and Perfect has been in stores since 2004, gathering a small but enthusiastic following. Then it was featured in a BBC documentary analyzing the claims of beauty products.
The bottle appeared on screen for less then three seconds. That's all it took for a 21-week stock to sell out in two days. Now Boots can't make the stuff fast enough.
1,500 Bottles an Hour
After our chat with Long, "Nightline" went to the factory where the serum is made. They'd run out of bottles. The supplier can't keep up with the demand. For more than a month, 1,500 bottles of serum were rolling off the production lines every hour, 24 hours a day.
Watch your television for a couple of hours and chances are you'll see a commercial for some kind of anti-aging cream. The makers bombard us with science, with the names of ingredients, with the short time it'll take to make us to look visibly younger.
A lot of these products, including Protect and Perfect, contain Retinol. It's basically a vitamin that stimulates skin cell activity. It's also in Tretinoin, a powerful and expensive prescription drug used to treat acne and deep wrinkles.
But according to Long, Retinol isn't what makes his $20, over-the-counter potion work.
No 'Magic Bullet'
"It's the combination of ingredients," he said. "We don't believe there's a single magic bullet that can treat the signs of aging."
So why does Watson think Long is on to something? In the lab Watson applied the serum to 10 volunteers' sun-damaged forearms. She took biopsies on day one and day 12.
She claimed that the skin showed significant improvement. After 12 days there were more fibrillin strands, which give skin its elasticity, she said. But does she know why?
"Not entirely, to be completely honest with you," she answered.
A six-month, full clinical trial of the serum is now under way. Results are expected in January. Meanwhile the buying frenzy continues.
by:abcnews.go.com
Eye Lift Surgery Not Needed For Most Vision Impairment
Vision problems typically increase with age and sometimes the problem is on the outside. The eyelids and brows sag as gravity sets in. This action can impair vision. Usually the first thought is cosmetic surgery.
(PRWEB) June 20, 2007 -- Cynthia Rowland, internationally known anti-aging expert announces a safe and risk free way to stave off eyelid surgery using facial exercise.
One of the best kept anti-aging secrets can help you recover your sight. That's right; exercise can save your sight by lifting sagging eye lids and eye brows.
Sagging eyelids can impair vision and those sagging muscles can easily become stronger using exercise.
"Vision problems typically increase with age and sometimes the problem is on the outside. The eyelids and brows sag as gravity sets in and that sagging can begin to impair vision. Many people have turned to cosmetic surgery because it seems like it is the only avenue for correction.
Cosmetic surgery is definitely an option, but why risk infection or more when one simple exercise done for 35 seconds a day can achieve results rivaling a surgical procedure?" asks Ms. Rowland.
Eyebrows droop as the forehead muscle weakens from lack of use. The frontalis muscle is a vertical muscle that originates in the scalp and hairline. When this muscle begins to elongate it only has one way to move and that is downward into the obicularis occuli muscles, the muscles that lift the eyelids.
Aging, sagging forehead muscles pool into aging, sagging eye lid muscles.
Drooping eye lids can impair vision. This impairment can also create a very wrinkled forehead because the levator muscles, the obicularis occuli muscles and the frontalis muscle are working overtime trying to keep the droopy eyelid from obstructing one's vision.
There are only a few options available to improve sagging eyelids.
Blepharoplasty is a surgical procedure to correct sagging upper and lower eyes. The upper eye procedure involves actually cutting the eyelids, removing excess tissue and then suturing the eyelids usually in the existing crease. The surgery is performed while the patient is under general anesthesia although there are other types of local and oral anesthesia's available; the procedure takes about 2 hours to complete and just like any other invasive procedure there are risks to consider.
Electro-stimulation devices, using minute electrical currents, claim they can lift eyelids and brows. According to some well-paid physicians they do work but there is a healthy amount of skepticism from their peers.
Overuse can cause spasms, headache, irritation, redness and burning. Electro-stimulation is very time consuming as each area requires about three minutes to treat so it's not unusual to spend an hour or more trying to lift your face every other day.
The above mentioned options are not only costly; they're very temporary. Yes, temporary. Surgery does not correct poor muscle tone and neither do injections of Botox, fillers or electro-currents.
What's the solution?
Facial exercise is the smartest thing you can do to stop the cause of sagging eyelids but not all facial exercise programs work the same. Why? Because scrunching and contortions are not exercises. When there is no resistance or anchoring to create a contraction, your eyelids cannot lift. Genuine facial exercise is not about scrunching or making contortions, rather, they are bone fide, precise movements that treat the cause of aging in the face.
How long until you see results? Most people see results immediately. Permanent results occur when the muscles are sufficiently strengthened to retain their new positions.
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by:www.prweb.com
Brides Slim Down for 'The Big Day'
Weight Management Chewing Gum Helps Turn Vow Into WOW!
An easy step to achieving your ideal weight is to raise your body's metabolism and curb your appetite with Nutra-Trim weight management gum. Together with a sensible diet and light exercise, it's a recipe for weight loss success. It's available in stores nationally, see http://www.nutratrim.com/ .
by:www.ksbitv.com
"It's not magic, but it really does work," says Kevin Gass, co-founder of GumRunners, LLC. Nutra-Trim is made with natural ingredients, Green Tea, L- Carnitine and Chromium, ingredients clinically proven to increase metabolism and help control cravings and are recognized by the FDA as safe.
Fifty percent of gum chewers already chew gum to avoid snacking. Now, instead of an ordinary piece of gum, brides chewing Nutra-Trim get the extra benefits of increased metabolism and reduced cravings. This new weight management gum is a smash hit, recently appearing on The Today Show during "Take It Off Today, Quick Fix Diet Tricks."
Perhaps the groom is a little overweight? Not surprising since 71percent of men are overweight according to the CDC. Giving Nutra-Trim gum to the groom can really help him keep within his cummerbund.
These tips can help boost weight loss:
*Sleep -- Missing 16 minutes of sleep a day is associated with a 10-point increase in body mass.
*Chew Gum -- Chewing gum by itself has been proven to reduce stress -- and preparing for "The Big Day" is a top 10 stressful activity! Nutra-Trim Gum takes gum chewing to a new level by adding weight management ingredients.
*Yoga -- Exercise and Relaxation are a great weight loss combination.
*Carry a bottle of water everywhere -- surprisingly drinking water reduces water weight.
*If you cannot make time for a workout, pump up your activities; do chair squats or lunges around your home or office (a great way for getting your butt honeymoon-ready!)
Skin care provider turns anti-aging war to hair care
ermaplus, a New York-based provider of anti-aging skin care solutions, has turned its attentions to anti-aging treatments for hair care with the launch of a new scalp conditioner, Keracyte.
The product is derived from the company's patented active ingredient Elastatropin, which forms a key ingredient in its anti-wrinkle treatment DermaLastyl.
It says that Keracyte has been formulated to stimulate hair follicles to make existing hair shafts thicker, stronger and longer, giving an impression of more luxurious and youthful looking hair.
However, the product also contains a catalytic anti-oxidant, Prolisel, which the company says protectects against the damaging effects of UV light and dihydrotestosterone (DHT).
DHT is thought to be 30 times more potent than testosterone and is responsible for many cases of male pattern baldness, whereas UV light has been attributed with speeding up the aging and thinning process in hair follicles.
"We believe that healthy skin is the key to healthy hair growth. It is widely known that hereditary hair loss occurs when DHT and UV light damage cells in scalp follicles," said Dr. Burt Ensley, PhD, CEO of Dermaplus.
Dr. Ensley went on to describe how the follicles get progressively smaller, shortening the hair growth cycle and eventually resulting in thinner and shorter follicles, and ultimately no hair growth.
"We know that human hair follicles are little factories associated with and responsible for production of proteins such as elastin and keratin," he continued. "Not only is tropoelastin produced by the cells in the hair follicles but the follicles themselves appear to depend on it."
The company says that to combat the age-related thinning and balding process in hair follicles, it has turned to the same process it uses ints DermaLastyl anti-wrinkle treatment.
This is because testing carried out by the company showed that the hair follicle growth responds and is encouraged by both elastatropin and prolisel.
Other ingredients included in the formulation include matrixyl 3000, argireline, hyaluronic acid, provitamin B, germaben and ProliSel
Dr. Ensley also says that some of the individuals using the treatment have reported that it has led to natural hair color being restored.
Increasingly hair care providers are turning their attentions to products that claim to have restorative properties, as the big race for increasingly effective anti-aging treatments spills into the hair care segment.
Perhaps the most high profile example of this has been the recent global launch from Unilever with a new line of Dove hair care products targeting mature women and their specific hair care requirements.
by:www.cosmeticsdesign.com
Quick-Med snaps up anti-aging patent
Quick-Med Technologies, a Florida-based life sciences company, has signed a patent license agreement with the University of Michigan for a technology that fights chronological aging and photo-aging.
Quick-Med says that the patent, which was developed by the university as a cosmetic treatments for a variety of skin conditions, mainly age-related, will add significantly to its existing MultiStat technology.
The company has added the University of Michigan patent to its portfolio in response to the growing demand for increasingly effective active ingredients aimed at reversing visible signs of skin aging.
The addition of the U-M patents means that the company now has exclusive patent rights for use of seven US patents and numerous international patents for cosmetics applications that were previously non-exclusive.
It says that the license gives it exclusive rights to commercialize important patents that will lead to the development of cosmetic products incorporating anti-aging properties.
MultiStat is derived from Matrix Metalloproteinases Inhibitors (MMPI), which work to regulate adverse skin cell reactions that include increased skin cell degradation and collagen depletion.
The technology consists of over 10 patented compounds and patented formulae for developing other compounds, which have been clinically proven to counteract the effects of photo or natural skin aging, in turn reducing the number and depth of facial wrinkles in both males and females.
The company has been commercializing its MultiStat technology through an exclusive distribution agreement with the fine chemicals division of the BASF Corporation.
This agreement means that compounds formulated using MultiStat technology are sold to leading cosmetics companies worldwide.
"These patents significantly extend our patent estate in the cosmetics arena," stated Michael Granito, Chairman of Quick-Med Technologies.
"Exclusive rights should give us the ability to strengthen our position in the market," Granito added.
Currently the global anti-aging market is estimated to be worth approximately $50 billion dollars, a figure that is expected to hit $56 billion by 2007 - growth that many analysts believe will continue at break-neck speed in coming years.
by:www.cosmeticsdesign.com
