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If you want to be healthy, there are many things you can do to
achieve this. Good exercise, a good diet, proper rest and a
positive attitude about life are important practices for good
health.
And if you want the world to see how healthy you are, there are
of course many ways that you can show your health to the world.
The most obvious way is of course your skin.
So, how do we keep our skin healthy?
One popular, new method is the use of cosmeceuticals. That may
sound like a strange word. According to Robert A Schwartz, MD,
Professor and Head of Dermatology at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical
School, “Cosmeceuticals represent a marriage between cosmetics
and pharmaceuticals.”
He notes that, “Like cosmetics, (they) are topically applied,
but they contain ingredients that influence the biological
function of the skin.”
They don’t just work on making your skin look pretty, blemish
free and all that. Rather they improve skin appearance by
putting healthy nutrients in the skin. Or, in other words,
cosmeceuticals make the skin look healthy because it IS
healthy.
If cosmeceuticals is a new word for you =96 and perhaps a new
concept =96 then let me add another important term, in this
discussion about skin care.
That’s Chiral Technology.
When you use natural ingredients for skin care, you still need
to make sure that your skin can use what it’s being `fed’.
Chiral technology is simply a process of purification. It
extracts the purest form of positive molecules and eliminates
the negative molecules (that can cause damage and irritation)
out of the natural ingredients you use. It thus provides the
proper fit onto the skin’s receptors for repairing and
maintaining healthy skin with less irritation.
It seems to be one of the newest concepts and practices for
healthy skin and healthy skin care.
So, how does Chirality (as it’s called) work?
Chiral molecules are exactly the same in every way. Like your
hands, they are perfect mirror images of each other. So, in a
way, they are exact opposites! An example is amino acids. Our
body uses just left-handed amino acids (you will notice on your
protein formulations words like L-proline). The right handed
ones are out there in the world, but the body cannot use them.
So, what does this have to do with skin care?
The body’s receptors are all chiral. They are like gloves made
to fit only over the correct hand. Thus a good skin care
product should be formulated in a chirally correct way. Or in
other words, the product would be a proper fit on to the skin’s
receptors. If the product is chirally correct, then any skin
treatments, whether from professionals or at home, would
provide the most effective therapy for repairing the skin.
Chiral technology makes it possible to produce a product that
is better than “natural” because it separates the molecules,
allowing us to remove the undesirable side of the molecule and
use only the desirable one.
As I noted, chirality refers to molecules that fit `like a
glove’ with the skin’s receptors. But what happens if the
wrong-handed molecule is used?
A good example of this is Thalidomide— the morning sickness
drug given to pregnant women in the late 50s and early 60s. The
drug company knew of this drugs chirality, but did not
investigate the real consequences. On one hand the morning
sickness was eliminated and on the other hand it caused
terrible side effects and severe birth defects. If chiral
technology had been applied this would have been eliminated.
But, though chiral technology is certainly one of the newest
concepts in skin care, the technology itself has been around
for awhile.
In fact, Louis Pasteur discovered it in 1848 while studying
tartaric acid from wine making. He found two tartaric acids on
the exact mirror image of the other like our hands.
A solution of this compound derived from living things
(specifically, wine lees) gave the chiral effect. The mystery
was that tartaric acid derived by chemical synthesis had no
such effect, even though its elemental composition was the
same. It only worked with living, organic compounds.
For a young scientist (he was only about 26 at that time) this
first demonstration of chiral molecules was quite an
achievement, but of course Pasteur then went on to his more
famous work in the field of biology/medicine.
So, if it’s really not so new, why haven’t we heard of this
before? Well, nowadays chirality is the fastest growing
investment by drug companies. So we’re sure to hear much more
of it. The Dark Ages of medical science are coming to a close.
You will now hear more about chiral technology processing.
So, getting back to skin care, if we understand some basic
principles it will help us target our skin health needs.
The bottom line is that there are two basic layers of skin, the
Epidermis and the Dermis. These two layers, though separate,
work as one system. The Epidermis serves as a barrier to the
outside and must keep out sunlight, insects, germs, heat, cold,
dirt and gases. At the same time it must withhold water, blood,
minerals, vitamins, hormones and proteins. The Dermis must
provide for body regulation of heat by the controlling of sweat
evaporation and dermal blood flow. The skin must provide a
system to allow the replacement of the outer cells lost to the
environment and the Dermis must also serve as a vast waste
disposal system of many toxic body substances.
Chiral technology allows for a product that is better than
“natural” because it separates the molecules, allowing us to
remove the undesirable side of the molecule and use only the
desirable one.
Chirally correct ingredients thus have the ability to deliver
outstanding results. Scientists have established that chirally
correct molecules determine how, or even if, a particular
ingredient will be effective. Therefore, in order for a product
to be most effective, its ingredients must be chirally correct.
Only chirally correct ingredients can restore chiral purity and
alignment on a molecular level, and therefore, on a cellular
level. Chirally correct fresh ingredients deliver nutrients
deep into the cell’s structure, nutrients that your skin can
not only recognize, but use.
Chiral technology used in the development of skin care products
ensures the delivery of ingredients to skin receptors. This
means that the absorption of nutrients is not inhibited by the
incorrect orientation of the active ingredients. Such
mal-orientation, found in most skin care products, not only
renders the product ineffective, it is often the cause of
irritation and other negative side effects. Since increased
absorption of the proper ingredients is especially important
when dealing with aged, sun damaged, acne, and sensitive skin,
it is paramount to offer ingredients in a form that is easily
absorbed, recognized, and utilized by the skin to restore the
skin’s integrity and immune function.
About The Author: Bruce Brightman is the founder and CEO of
Life Source Labs a leading online supplier of nutritional
supplements, health and beauty products.. Find out more about
chiral skin care products, nutritional supplements and other
health products at http://www.lifesourcelabs.com
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