Organic Skin Care: What Is It?

by admin on September 8, 2012

You might be wondering: What exactly is organic skin care? The answer is quite simple. It is taking the most natural ingredients and adding them to skin care products to make them as healthy as possible.

Organic skin care has been around for ages. In the beginning our ancestors would use herbs and other natural products to apply on their faces and body in the hopes of attaining better skin. Even the Ancient Egyptians would use make-up that contained vegetable and animal products.

But with the development of technology, these natural ingredients have been slowly replaced with man-made chemical compounds. It seemed like a good idea at first, but these harsh ingredients led to irritation and redness. In order to counterbalance these effects science created new and less irritating chemical ingredients; however, the effects on people with sensitive skin was still evident.

Nowadays, the skin care industry has done a complete 360 and is back to where it all started: natural ingredients. Some companies have created entire lines of cosmetic products that contain organic fruits and vegetables – probably the most common ingredients in skin care products to date. Nevertheless, there is recently a shift in organic skin care ingredients that now incorporates biological ingredients found in Nature. These ingredients are proving to be a revolutionary find that is treating damaged skin tissue in a way that no other skin care products has been able to. When these two types of natural skin care ingredients are paired up we are in the presence of a truly powerful and beneficial organic skin care product.

One such amazing biological mix is the one created by pairing a natural serum extracted from the Helix Aspersa Muller with virgin strawberry seed oil. The skin care benefits of this amazing natural ingredient were discovered by horticulture workers in Chile. They began noticing that after a period of working with snails the skin on their hands became smoother and softer while any wound they may have had began to heal or completely disappear.

It soon became very clear that this amazing natural ingredient would be a beneficial addition to any skincare product. In order to preserve the natural qualities of this ingredient that serum is safely extracted from the snails and quickly stored away. It is added to lotions, creams and gels that can be used for eye wrinkles, skin wrinkles, facial wrinkles and even acne skin care.

The Best Natural Cream for Wrinkles

Wrinkle therapy is the area in which snail extract excels. Not only is it a great moisturizer, it also helps regenerate the skin and improve its support structure, making the skin smoother and plumper. Its fast absorption lets it get to the root of the problem quickly.

In the case of acne scar problems, this ingredient has the potential to coordinate dead skin cell removal by using its natural enzyme to regulate cellular communication. The improved exchange between skin cells stimulates proliferation of skin cells which, in turn, boosts collagen and elastin levels in the skin. Advanced levels of collagen and elastin are essential to rebuild damaged skin cell growth in the spot where the scar existed. This is also true for most types of scars caused by acne, burns, or lesions.

You see, it doesn’t matter if you’re looking for the best eye cream or an acne scar removal cream, organic skin care is the newest way to treat all of your skin care needs.

Biocutis products are a wonderful line of skin care lotions that are created mixing a natural immune serum extracted from the Helix Aspersa and combining it with the benefits found in botanical extracts. This leads to a complex composition that includes glycoprotein enzymes, copper peptides and co-enzymes, proteoglycans, glycosaminoglycans, and antioxidants that make these natural skin care products ideal for womens skin vitality and mens skin concerns and rejuvenation.

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Natural Skin Care Serum That Works Like Magic

by admin on September 7, 2012

How much would you love to wake up one morning, glance at yourself in the mirror, and see a new younger reflection smiling back at you? No more puffy bags under your eyes, dark circles or “raccoon eyes”, wrinkled sagging skin or acne, scars, marks, redness or unsightly blemishes.

How would you feel if you looked 10 or even 15 years younger than your actual age? Or when friends you haven’t seen in some time look at you in awe because you look so much younger or healthier than they do.
And most importantly, how would you like to find the perfect balance between how you look and the age you feel inside?

It could very well happen to you now.

I must confess I absolutely love hearing about how people just like you have renewed their appearance and in some cases have even renewed their life. Nothing gives me more satisfaction.

What gets me really excited is that I know it’s possible for you to do the same.

And you can do it…without painful and risky surgery, without collagen or Botox injections, without spending thousands of dollars in the process, and with a naturally occurring lotion that is totally compatible with what our biology mandates and thus has no side effects whatsoever.

I understand if you are skeptical. After all, you can hardly pick up a magazine or turn on the television without being bombarded by outrageous false claims, hype and hoopla about how to look younger.

Top that with everyday new health warning cautions against the products that are supposed to make our lives easier but are now accused of being responsible for increased skin cancer rates, severe allergic reactions, dry, itchy and irritated skin and other which exacerbate wrinkles and speed the effects of aging.

It seems that convenience could be killing us and killing the environment.

Now that health food stores and organic markets are becoming more and more common, one could think it is getting easier to find natural or organic skin care alternatives to the harmful chemical products that have been traditionally used. Or is it?

Most of the so called “natural” or “organic” skin products are nothing but concoctions of herbs and botanicals conceived by a clever marketer with the help of a pharmacist. The point is not if they are not man made –Tobacco isn’t man made– the real question is if they are compatible or not with living cells.
And then, who has independently appraised their benefits?
Frankly, if you’re like me, you’re not only skeptical but rather sick of it.

And that’s why I believe you’re going to be very excited when you read this…
Scientists have been screening for natural products bearing properties that effectively overcome serious skin disorders and more mundane skin problems for years and they have finally found something that truly cracks the code.

It is the skin regenerative properties of an organic ‘serum’ that is an essential component of the innate immune system of a little creature of the phylum mollusca, class gastropoda, species Crystomphalus Aspersa—also known as the humble brown garden snail.

Validated by Years of Research

The regenerative properties of the serum secreted by these snails and its effect on human skin have been validated by years of research published first in dermatology journals in Spain and reported only recently in English in the January 2008 issue of the international Journal of Pharmacology and Physiology of Skin.

The authors of such recent independent publication in English language comprise scientists from The Hospital La Madrid in Spain and prominent researchers from the prestigious Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City and The Department of Biological Sciences at the School of Natural Sciences, Fairleigh Dickinson University, in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Science has taken note that the organic skin care serum is a complex compound of ‘glyco’ or sugar chain molecules bound to proteins, peptides, enzymes, co-enzymes and oligo-elements. So complex it can not be yet be replicated even in the most sophisticated biochemical laboratory on Earth.

Clinical Trials have confirmed the ability of the organic skincare serum to redress the deleterious effects of photo-aging caused by excessive exposure to solar radiation and the ensuing free radical formation. While other independent clinicals have confirmed its ability to heal the harm inflicted to skin of patients undergoing radio therapy because of breast cancer.

It is effective because it works with what our biology mandates

You’ve heard it countless times… your ability to cope with assaults and insults from the environment depends on the strength of your immune system.

The same applies to the skin which is, by far, the largest organ of your body and the one you generally expose nude, in certain areas, without even the least protection, to hazards, solar radiation and damaging free radicals.

The brown garden snail is a creature with skin very similar to human skin that has evolved during billions of years of its evolutionary drift perfectly adapted to thriving with its skin exposed nude to the same culprits we have to cope with.

The land helix, or snail, has been used in medicine since antiquity. Hippocrates himself even recognized the special healing properties of snail secretions. Since the 19th century there has been a renewed interest in the pharmaceutical and medical use of snails, particularly for dermatological applications

What is does?

For human skin, it does something similar. It strengthens the body’s ability to ingest and kill infectious microbes or dead/dying cells and reinforces the production and the action of the antimicrobial peptides that our own skin secretes.

Dissolves or “digests” denatured, damaged or dying cells, abnormal keratin plugs, and removes scar tissues by releasing their amino-acids and other components for the rebuilding of healthy molecules to replace blemished skin.

Keeps Your Skin Looking Young, Beautiful, And Age-Free Without Cosmetic Injections Or Plastic Surgery!
Enhances inter and intra cellular communication, stimulates extracellular matrix assembly and the regulation of metalloproteinase activities, which limits the extent of damage during wounding and scar formation and triggers cell turnover and the BIOSYNTHESIS of healthy cells an the orderly regeneration of whatever cells and tissues may be damaged.

Promotes the proliferation of the water holding carbohydrate molecules within the skin.
But wait, it doesn’t stop there, it also surprisingly restores balance to skin disturbed by internal hormonal disorders. These include rosacea, and acne when skin is affected by inflamed lesions arising to cells lining the sebum canals due to the shear forces of sudden outflow of sebum.

It also helps to heal wounds and reduces burn scars and hypertrophic or keloid scars left behind after accidents and hazards like no other scar removal lotion. And it is a powerful antioxidant that takes care of damage inflicted by toxins from environmental pollution, damaging UV radiation, or chemicals.

The humble brown garden snail and its natural skin care serum can be compared to the discoveries of the silkworm, the oysters’ pearl and the honey-bee for its contribution to beauty, and a lifetime of healthy skin and graceful aging.

The products made with this organic skin care lotion plus pure botanical extract are totally compatible with what the biology of our own living cells dictates. Some of our products also contain strawberry oil and fruit extracts for their aroma and antioxidant properties.

A magic charm?

Nope, we brew our potions out of scientifically verified biological mechanisms–but our clients keep telling us that the results they’ve seen are like sorcery, so we don’t blame you for wondering!

Aileen Fitzharris
Biochemist,
R&D

P.S. What are you waiting for? Just give it a risk-free try and you will be wondering what else may keen observation discover in Mother Nature’s Kingdom that might pleasantly surprise us and make our lives so much easier.

Validated by Science

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naturalThe naturally occuring skin treatment active ingredient supplied by the Helix Aspersa Müller has come leaps and bounds in the last 3 decades since 1981 going through three transformations of collection method. www.biocutis.com is leading the pack with its most current and greatest innovation in the procurement of this priceless secretion.

Current analysis concentration of PHYSICIAN Tomic-Canic is molecular as well as cell systems of cut healing and also its obstacle with the long-term goal to deliver bench-side study back to patients at the bedside. Her analysis features human and also diabetic designs of wound recuperation, wound genomics studies, producing primary cells from patients' injury biopsies, local sustained gene injection, cellular assays of injury recovery, and histology as well as immunohistochemistry of skin.

How is cell growth controlled. Each cell that is growing collects minute amounts of positive regulatory proteins named growth factors that stimulate cell proliferation.

The natural serum, constructed from glyco biomolecules, that boosts all www.biocutis.com skin care products nourishes as well as refreshes the cells of the skin, and also has been the object of extensive study by researchers as well as skin specialists registered by a few of the most exclusive dermatology academies in the world, holds potential as mediator molecules in injury recovery as well as stem cell regenerative medication. Below is a piece from an excellent article on the subject:

To do their feat properly stem cells need to communicate with each other and there must also be good communication between their internal organelles. This is the function of glyco (sugar) molecules, and the recognition of their role by the sweet science of glycobiology has led to think of them as messenger molecules that are able to bridge communication between cells and within cells.

What has slowly become clear to biochemists is that these sugars play as vital a role in making the cell work as do the proteins. They combine to form giant molecules such as carbohydrates and cellulose; they are already known to regulate hormones, organize embryonic development, direct the movement of cells and proteins throughout the body, and regulate the immune system.

Glycan structures regulate the actions of the hundreds of cell types found within the adult human body, so understanding the mechanisms by which cells initiate glycan change is critical if stem cells are ever to be manipulated in a lab and deployed as potential therapeutics. Researchers at the University of Georgia have discovered new changes in molecule structures on the cell surface that may play critical roles in cell growth. Their work may speed the creation of effective stem cell therapies, UGA said in a statement.

"If stem cells can be matured into adult cell types for use in treatment for disease, there is an additional complication of delivery to the diseased tissue. Cells coated with appropriate glycans may provide an effective mechanism for targeting cells for appropriate delivery to the affected tissue."

The study focused on glycans found on mouse stem cells, but the research team is currently investigating these same processes in human embryonic stem cells. Glycans In Skin Care Products.

 

An artistic depiction of cell proliferation via www.Alex and Turner

Now, there is more to glyco molecules than nourishing the skin with elements that it may begin to lack as we age. The serum secreted by snails is far more complex than the glycomolecules a pharmacist can create in a laboratory and plays a role in supporting the innate immune system. Your health is dependent on your immune system and its ability to identify and repel your own damaged cells and other invaders.

Our immune system ages with us and its inflamm-aging responses generate un-repaired cellular damage – the more damage, the earlier you'll likely age… in an unhealthy state up to death.

The cumulative effects of free radical oxidation, physical and psychic stress, heavy metal overload, and vitamin and mineral under nutrition wears it down, increasing our susceptibility to disease. Mother Nature never anticipated that the immune system she designed for us would be so taxed; here she needs our help. FORTUNATELY a creature that also lives with its skin exposed nude, as we merry around under the sun, and with skin similar to human skin, a land snail, secretes an immune system support serum that acts at the site of skin damage to regenerate skin and fight pathogens. Fibroblast cells which occur naturally in skin are responsible for producing collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid, which give skin its soft, young look.

The Natural Regenerative Properties Of Human Skin Decrease With Age An innovative technology that isolates, purifies and multiplies a patient's own fibroblast cells (a type of skin cell that makes collagen) for injection has been developed and can be used for acne scarring and other therapeutic skin treatments.

Fibrocell Science LaViv procedure. The LaViv procedure, now approved by the FDA, is the only one of its kind to use the patient's own cells to regrow healthy collagen in the skin. It promises to be a revolutionary new alternative or adjunct treatment to conventional fillers, such as Restylane, Perlane, Radiesse, Juvederm, and Sculptra.

Also under current research are treatments such as nerve regeneration for conditions like Parkinson's Disease or Alzheimer's Disease, pancreatic islet cells for transplantation into the liver for diabetes treatment, and regeneration of damaged heart tissue. An ultimate goal will be to build human tissue engineered organs on three dimensional scaffolds such as bladders, livers, hearts, and kidneys. This will entail deep and sustained multidisciplinary collaboration between previously disparate fields such as cell biology, biochemistry, materials science and immunology.

Human tissue engineered therapies represent a move away from "traditional" medical device and pharmaceutical technologies. Very often, the tissue engineered solution is geared towards an individual patient rather than a standard product being aimed at a wide and differing population of patients. Fibroblast Growth Factors (FGFs) and Their Receptors (FGFRs) Are Major Players In Tissue Repair

In the 1960's, Hayflick observed that human cells displayed a finite lifespan when cultured in vitro. He later determined that most cells had a maximal capacity to proliferate in vitro of about 50 population doublings (the Hayflick limit) after which they entered what he termed cellular senescence, a process characterized by irreversible growth arrest.Hayflick L, Moorhead PS: The serial cultivation of human cell strains. Experimental Cell Research 1961, 621:585-621. Hayflick L: The limited in vitro lifetime of human diploid cell strains. Experimental Cell Research 1965, 37:614-636.

The process of aging is a systemic degenerative process caused by intrinsic (genetic, epigenetic) and extrinsic (environmental) factors. It affects multiple organs, mainly those with a high metabolic demand or those actively dividing and replicating their chromosomes and those requiring constant or frequent regeneration. As such, aging is associated with a decrease in the regenerative properties of many tissues including bone, skin, muscle, brain and more.

Adult stem cells constantly provide replacement cells for tissue homeostasis and repair while at the same time maintaining a pool of stem cells by the process of self-renewal, where after cell division takes place at least one daughter cell is still a stem cell whereas the other is either a stem cell (symmetric division) or a differentiated progeny (asymmetric division). The stem cell pool only regresses when a symmetric division giving rise to two differentiated progeny occurs, or when the stem cell undergoes cellular senescence (these two processes not being exclusive).

In recent years, a number of studies have identified fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) and their receptors (FGFRs) as key regulators of both senescence and self-renewal in a variety of stem cell types.

The Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) comprise a large family of growth and differentiation factors with essential functions in development, metabolism, and repair of various tissues and organs. Dysregulation of FGF signaling is associated with a wide variety of human diseases, including several developmental/genetic diseases, metabolic disorders, and malignancies.

FGFs (23 known members) and FGFRs (5 known members, expressed as multiple splice variants) have long been known for their important roles in embryonic development. However, the vast number of somewhat redundant ligands and receptor variants, as well as the promiscuous ligand usage by the receptors has made it difficult to study the roles of FGFs-FGFRs using genetic methods. Furthermore, FGF signaling is modulated by tissue specific heparan-sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) that either inhibit or amplify FGFR activation. The divergent effects of FGF signaling also appear to depend on the state of differentiation of the cells, the repertoire of FGFRs they express, and the presence of other growth factors or cytokines. Nevertheless, as further tools and reagents are developed, a more comprehensive image is starting to emerge.

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For thousands of years, people from all over the world have been applying plant extracts, toad skin, snail skin and mucus to stimulate the healing of epidermal wounds, burns and infectious diseases. Recent Western medical research has started to discover the magic of these natural alternatives of healing. The Discovery of naturally active peptides and glycoproteins in snail cells and mucus (Kubota Y et al., 1985) in toad skin (Zasloff, 1987) and in plants (Broekaert et al., 1995) explains the beneficial effects of these treatments. Those bioactive peptides are extremely efficient against a range of microorganisms and are thus called antimicrobial peptides.

Such magic of nature is also part of our own skin defense system. Some animals are born with antimicrobial peptides arranged as a crucial defense against microbial invasion (Gallo and Nizet, 2003). The skin is a protective interface between internal structures and the outside environment. It is exposed daily to thousands of hypothetical aggressors, a host of toxins and mechanical stress. In order to bear these challenges, skin functions as a mechanical barrier and has an active defensive role in the identification of microbes as well as in the synthesis of cytokines and defense molecules like antimicrobial peptides.

The number of studies showing the existence and up regulation of antimicrobial peptides in human tissues is increasing and reflects the importance of these peptides in skin defense and treatment. Scientists have focused on recreating its bioactive elements (by biosynthesis) in the laboratory.

That is a promising new venue for investigation and creating efficient drugs, but bringing a drug to clinical trial is time consuming and expensive. Every thing from finding, identification, synthesis and clinical trials, must be calculated as expenses that will bring a drug to market. Additionally, this process may also take ten or many more years to accomplish.

Fortunately coincidence and keen observation of the effects of the snail serum on the small skin wounds of people who handled snails, has allowed to persevere in making the extract available biologically in the form of acne treatment.

Maintaining a regular cleansing routine is also a vital part of keeping skin looking young and healthy. So, when picking the appropriate skin care products, make sure that you pick gentle ones for fair skin.

Producers noticed that the employees they took care of the snails would have smoother skin. Those suffering from acne breakouts and rosacea would also show signs of improvement in their skin condition. The fact that the snail serum has glycoproteins and peptides that kill bacteria and naturally induce the synthesis of endogenous antimicrobial peptides has been known since 1985.

Due to a renewed interest in natural organic products for skin care, creams containing snail serum have become more present. New skin care products offer the chance to get rid of pimples, blemishes and skin imperfections, while at the same time protect you skin and keep it hydrated. This is the case even with an exfoliating home microdermabrasion cream powered by activators of skin regeneration specially formulated to be a safe stretch marks cream for pregnant women. Personal skin care just became a cinch.

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