Anti Aging Tree Pulp Discovered by 16 Year Old Teen

May 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Just when you think teenagers these days are mostly spending their time getting drunk, mindlessly following celebrity trends, and communicating only via their mobile devices; sixteen year old Janelle Tam has won first prize in the Sanofil BioGENEius Challenge in Canada.

Tree - leaf canopy

Tree - leaf canopy (Photo credit: blmiers2)

Her discovery? She found that cellulose in tree pulp, or more accurately the nano crystalline cellulose (NCC), had potent disease fighting and anti aging properties. As a material, it was also more stable and durable.

 ”Janelle chemically ‘paired’ NCC with a well-known nanoparticle called a buckminster fullerene. These ‘buckyballs’ (carbon molecules that look like a soccer ball) are already used in cosmetic and anti-aging products she says. The new NCC-buckyball combination acted like a ‘nano-vacuum,’ sucking up free radicals and neutralizing them.

“The results were really exciting,” she says and especially since cellulose is already used as filler and stabilizer in many vitamin products. One day those products may be super-charged free radical neutralizers thanks to NCC, she hopes.”

The commercial potential for this discovery is huge with the anti aging market estimated at billions of dollars.

“It would be really nice to commercialise this,” Tam told AFP. “I envision it more as an ingredient that would be added to existing formulations, so it could be added to tablets or bandaids for a wound dressing or it could be added to cosmetic cream.”

Watch out for tree pulp anti aging products coming your way soon.

 

Read more about Janelle and other entries here and here.

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Anti Aging Creams – Selling To The Gullible

February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

 

Ready For New Anti Aging Creams? Read This First…

When the season changes, you can expect a whole sleuth of anti aging creams to hit the market.

Winter chills? You need an anti aging cream that is extra moisturizing and nourishing. The first hint of Spring? Well, time to start spring cleaning you old skin care habits and start a new skin care regime. Hot summer days? You need light weight anti aging creams with sun screen, preferably with a tint that will make you look sun kissed. Autumn leaves are falling? What are you waiting for? You need a new anti aging cream to prepare you for the cooler autumn breeze.

It’s easy to fall into the a buying trap. After all, we change clothes so why not anti aging creams?

Rachel Weisz - L'Oreal anti aging creams ads

Rachel Weisz - L'Oreal anti aging creams ad

Add the pictures of beautiful, immaculate, smooth as silk actresses or celebrities in all the advertising campaigns, and you are convinced that the new cream by XYZ skin care brand is just the answer for you.

Recently, there was a brouhaha in Britain over the actress Rachel Weisz’s much photo-shopped face gracing a L’Oreal skin care campaign. The UK Advertising Standards Authority release a statement that said :

“image had been altered in a way that substantially changed her complexion to make it appear smoother and more even. We therefore concluded that the image in the ad … misleadingly exaggerated the performance of the product in relation to the claims ‘skin looks smoother’ and ‘complexion looks more even.’”

No kidding.  Emer Sugrue, Opinion Editor at the University Observer wrote a great article called “buyer beware!”

Here is an extract :

“Of course the Advertising Standards Agency’s job is to investigate complaints about the accuracy of ads, but do these standards go too far? Yes, the forty-something Rachel Weisz appeared with a face so smoothed back that she looked like she was accelerating at 200 kilometres an hour, but the ad was not in any way a lie. The vague promises of smoother skin and even complexion are true. They are actually true of any moisturiser, regardless of cost. All moisturisers serve the same function and there is little to no evidence that those specifically promoted as anti-aging have any extra effect. But the ad didn’t claim that it was better than other moisturisers, just that it was good. Often these ads back this up with a survey showing that eighty per cent of the women they gave some free face cream to thought it was great. It’s meaningless, but not false.”

He then goes on to perfume ads that sells us the lifestyle and ‘cool’ factor rather than the actual smell of the product. In fact, when was the last time you heard the smell of a particular perfume being described? It is all super young looking models doing a variety of unexplainable actions. (The latest Prada Candy one comes to mind – what was all that about??)

Here is Emer Sugrue’s take on perfume ads:

“The majority of advertisements are either bland statements of fact or suggestive promises pasted over aspirational imagery. Perfume ads are the best example of the trend. Not one perfume ad mentions what the product supposed to smell like. Instead they are a montage of aspiration and wish fulfilment. Men’s ads feature aloof, handsome, mysteriously shirtless men with just the right amount of stubble finding stunning women throwing themselves at their feet. Women’s ads show models draped in silk with said aloof shirtless men in an agony of love, lust, angst and whatever other sexy emotions the Twilight series have popularised, and you could have this life too if only you gave Calvin Klein your money. Could this sort of advertising be banned by the ASA? The imagery is definitely misleading. All a purely factual ad can promise is that if you buy this bottle of smell, you will smell like this smell.”

I had to laugh. The shirtless men seems to be a staple is all perfume ads and as my daughter says, they are “always wet or in the process of getting wet”.

Do you fall for all the advertising hype? Do you fall for all the seductive promises? OK, let me ask another way – how many pots of anti aging creams do you have in your bathroom?

Mmmmmm…..

 

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Anti Aging Skin Care Tips To Avoid Surgery

February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

 

Plastic Surgery is always the last option for many people when it comes to looking young. Try these eleven anti aging skin care tips from Dr. Jeffrey Spiegel, a facial plastic surgeon and professor of facial plastic surgery and head and neck surgery at Boston University, before you contemplate plastic surgery.

 

Eleven Great Anti Aging Skin Care Tips:

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Anti Aging Skin Care Tips

1) Make sure you give your face and hands the attention and care it deserves.

“Putting the time in goes toward a good, clear complexion,” he said. “People will know if your skin is healthy. They can tell the difference between freckles and lesions.”

2) Take the weather conditions in your area into consideration.

“It’s frigid up here in Boston, so I have to take care of my hands and face, which are exposed. The same goes for the sun. Most of the time the rest of your skin is covered, which is why it’s necessary to focus on the hands and face.”

3) Be Gentle – Avoid harsh soaps and cleansers for your face.

“Older men might find this too feminine an activity, but it’s important,” he said. “Look at it this way. You aren’t going to use a flat-head screwdriver on a Phillips-head screw, so why use soap on your face instead of a facial wash?”

4) Moisturize and use sun screen wherever you are.

“Sun damage causes lots of problems to your skin, not to mention cancerous growth,” he said. “Your body can’t heal the sun damage unless you give it time to heal, and you can’t give it time to heal without using sunscreen.”

5) Be aware of how you position your face.

“Your facial positions should accentuate the positive features of your face,” he said. “For men, having good posture and keeping your jaw and chin up is important. For women, looking up makes the eyes look larger and keeps the eyebrows up.”

6) Your attitude and confidence speaks volumes about you.

“Confidence and attractiveness go hand in hand…You are who you want to be.”

7) Pay attention to your sleeping habits and sleeping positions.

“From your 30s to your 50s, how you sleep is important. Certain sleep positions leave sleep lines on your face, which become wrinkles on your face.”

And don’t think they will leave as they are not caused by muscles. Add to the fact that sleep lines are perpendicular to regular wrinkles, and you will really have a crossword puzzle look to your lined face.

“You need to take note of how you sleep and what you sleep on,” he said. “Sleeping on your side or using a rough pillow can cause sleep lines and wrinkles. Sleeping on your back is the best option, but people find it uncomfortable.”

If you have problems sleeping on your back or you find it uncomfortable, Dr. Spiegel suggests an Envy Pillow

8) Stop being a night owl. Get enough sleep.

“Getting a good night’s sleep is important,” he said, “even if it means going to bed earlier. You have to compensate for your biological clock.”

9) Remember to drink lots of good quality water and stay hydrated.

“Dehydration causes all sorts of problems, including problems to your skin,” he said.

One way to check if you are getting enough fluid inside you (and we do not mean alcohol) is to pinch the skin at the back of your hand. If the skin does not bounce back quickly, you are dehydrated.

Getting adequate amount of quality fluids inside you will also make your face look plumper and fuller; evening out those little lines more.

10) Don’t shy away from trying some anti aging skin care procedures like Botox.

“There are quick procedures to be done with very little downtime,” he said. “There’s no such thing as being too old for Botox.”

Spiegel noted that Botox users have better moods, no doubt from looking younger.

Or try other alternatives.

“Certain fillers last several years now and regrow tissue,” Spiegel said. “Sculptra is one. It provides volume and stimulates the body to grow and fill lost tissue.”

11) Ask around for the best procedures or anti aging skin care remedies for you.

“Don’t be afraid to get an opinion,” he said. “That’s what the experts are there for – to ask an opinion. You get your chimney and your heating checked regularly. Why not get your skin checked as well?”

Resources to check out include:

The American Academy of Facial Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery (http://www.aafprs.org/).

 

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