Recent Articles of Interest

We've discovered a new biological product created to revive burned skin, while treating and removing abnormal scars left behind by skin burns. This product helps alleviate skin contractures, shrink postburn keloid scars and hyperthropic scarring, reinforcing weak tissues that may have been created by atrophic conditions (a condition that causes skin to fissure or bruise easily), and improving the quality of graft texture, color match, and scar pigmentation.

Skin burns may be generated by chemicals, heat, electricity, or radiation, reducing the skin's restorative capabilities. They can result in the loss of a large section of skin and provoke the consequent scar to contract, causing the borders of skin to be pulled together. Another type of scar, known as a keloid, is created with abnormal scarring. If the tissue generates excessively fibrotic scars, then they are called hypertrophic scars. These scars are usually treated with surgery by applying a skin flap, or graft and tissue expansion, but now they can also be treated with a natural skin revival product.

Acute radiodermatitis are lesions and burns caused by skin toxicity elements in people receiving radiotherapy for cancer. They cause a mayor loss in the quality of life of patients. But there is a product that reduces radiation and other burn-related skin alterations by supplying a complex natural compound, which contains a balanced mixture of NATURAL FACTORS THAT HELP RECOVER THE NORMAL PHYSIOLOGY OF THE SKIN.

A study done at the Coaniquem Burn Center Foundation, a Non Profit Children's Burn Hospital in Santiago, Chile demonstrated the tissue-regenerating action of this natural compound. Another study done in Spain demonstrated the benefits of applying the ingredient on 100 patients undergoing radiotherapy or that had completed radiation treatment the previous month at the Hospital Ramon y Cajal in Madrid.

What was the miraculous ingredient that yielded such wonderful results?

It was snail slime... YES, PRODUCED BY THE MODEST BROWN GARDEN SNAIL!

On of the most common reasons for raising snails was for food, that is until a snail farm in Chile noticed that their snail handlers had exceptionally smooth hands, and any cuts or abrasions had healed incredibly fast with no sign of scarring. This provoked a renewed interest in the pharmaceutical and medical use of snails. According to scientific research the substance produced by the snail is a natural complex mixture of glyco or sugar chain molecules bound to enzymes, coenzymes, proteins, peptides and oligoelements. The liquid mucin secreted by the Helix Aspersa Muller (from which we collect the substance) has a strong Antioxidant Activity that helps the snail protect itself from oxygen radicals when it comes out of its shell after hibernating or against UVA radiation. The secretion also contains antimicrobial peptides and is also capable of stimulating their production, shielding the snail from being attacked by opportunistic micro-organisms that are always willing to invade when skin is injured.

The use of this organic ingredient on burned skin improves proliferation and other functional abilities of Fibroblasts, inducing production of skin elements needed for wound repairing. It also increases and properly regulates collagen production, and corrects fibronectin deposition on the extracellular matrix and hyaluronic acid proportion. Both the facilitating and stimulating effects of this ingredient on the mechanisms of regulated cutaneous wound healing provide a rationale for its use in the treatment of post burn scarring, and in reducing burn-induced skin conditions while also treating radiodermatitis.

Prevention and effects on skin damaged by radiotherapy The use the natural ingredient before radiotherapy as a prophylactic treatment results in a faster improvement of wounds induced by this type of therapy. Its use to heal radiodermatitis is more effective than the popular use of chamomile water and corticosteroids, and has the great advantage of having no side effects whatsoever.

The Reinvention of Skin Care

From a dermatologic point of view this organic ingredient performs four concrete functions:

1) Reinforces the defensive mechanism of the skin against free radicals. It also protects from the effects of solar radiation while inducing the production of antibiotics that protect the skin from intruding microbes.

2) Helps the immune system identify non-functional and flawed tissues.

3) Dissolves dysfunctional, flawed, dead or dying cells into their basic amino-acid and other elements. It also releases them for the regeneration of healthy cells, and

4) Organizes and supports the regeneration of the skin matrix by triggering the proliferation of all the structural elements of healthy skin.

The Helix Aspersa Muller Glyococonjugate restores the natural skin repair mechanisms. It promotes the proliferation of FIBROBLASTS and reconstitutes the optimal functional ability of prematurely aged fibroblasts. It also supplies Hyaluronic Acid, Collagen, Elastic fibers, Fibronectin and other elements of the extracellular matrix. The extracellular matrix (ECM) is primarily made-up of Type-I collagen, along with a lower proportion of Type-III collagen, elastin and associated microfibrils, proteoglycans and fibronectin. Fibronectin is defined as any of several related adhesive glycoproteins, or cell-surface proteins, that mediate cellular adhesive properties. Fibronectins are important in connective tissues, where they cross-link to collagen and are also involved in aggregation of platelets. It also promotes the rejuvenation of the skin's structure through its triple action on COLLAGEN FIBERS. This is achieved by supplying a collagenese enzymatic activity on flawed collagen (J.P Pivel et al.Dermatología & Cosmetica, 1998), by providing copper-haemocyanin to ensure the oxygen needed for proper collagen formation (G.Gimenez, Hosp Princesa, 2002), and by supplying a structural support network of fibronectin (J.P Alonso-Lebrero et al. Poster # 0235 Miami 2002)

The snail's secretion also restores the ELASTIC FIBER network by supplying collagenase and gelatinase enzymatic activity on elastotic material in the skin (J.P Pivel et al.Dermatología & Cosmetica, 1998), promoting the synthesis of new fibers through its action on fibroblasts (A.Brieva et al Dermatología & Cosmetica, 1998), and providing a structural support network of fibronectin (J.P Alonso-Lebrero et al. Poster # 0235 Miami 2002). It also improves the natural capability of the dermis to take up and hold water, thus determining its VOLUME, STRENGTH and ELASTICITY by providing hyaluronic acid and improving the formation of fibrous tissues - fibroplasia.

The snail's secretion improves the defensive mechanisms of the skin because it has a strong ANTIOXIDANT ACTION (inhibition of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) plus free radical withdrawal). The secretion has low molecular weight compounds that act against hydroxyl radicals (OH-). It also has superoxide Dismutase (SOD) and conjugated enzymes such as Glutathione-S-transferase (GSH-T) activity that fights against superoxide anions (O-). The secretion also acts against UVA rays and has twice the cytoplasm protection effect of control antioxidants (A.Brieva et al Dermatología & Cosmetica, 2001). Furthermore, it also keeps the PHYSIOLOGICAL BALANCE between the production and elimination of all supportive elements in the skin by stimulating metalloproteinase activity on denatured material, and shielding newly synthesized elements from degradation (via Metalloproteinase inhibitors). Through its collagenase and gelatinase enzymatic activity, the mucin helps to REDUCE THE INFLAMMATORY EFFECT caused by flawed proteins in injured and aging skin by counteracting the signs of natural and UV-induced skin aging and acting as a natural sun protector by reinforcing the skin's own UV-protection. It also helps avoid DNA alteration due to UV exposure, and stimulates rejuvenating functions of the skin thereby improving skin firmness and structure.

Follow this simple step to treat your burn scar:

Using your finger apply the product over a burn scar or a small area of burn scars that are no more than two or three inches in diameter.

Let your skin absorb the skin-repairing formula. This will usually take a few minutes. Do not rinse off. Because your skin is likely to be responsive to biological products when burn scars are recent, it is recommended to start treatment as soon as possible. If you get started with your scar removal treatment right now, then within three weeks to ninety days, you should see results.