Collagen Snail Cream (Elastin)

It eliminates the stains efficiently in the skin. It possesses nutritious properties. It is used to treat marks in the skin caused by courts, burns, the acne, the sun, illnesses and the pregnancy. It eliminates striae. See specials and buy this product

It contains a complex biological compound packed with enzymes, proteins, carbohydrate chains and trace elements that act in concert to dissolve plugs that block pores and "digest" damaged tissues, trigger the proliferation of fibroblasts that give rise to new healthy skin structures such as collagen, elastin and glycosaminoglycans or water holding molecules, and eliminates redness and post inflammatory hyperpigmentation.

It also promotes the proliferation on the surface of the skin of anti-microbial peptides that perform as natural antibiotics against acne and other bacteria signalling your immune system that it is being taken care of and can moderate the inflammatory response so that it does not cause further loss of tissues and acne scars.

Benefits of the biological ingredient in the Snail Cream

RESTORES THE NATURAL SKIN REPAIR PROCESS

1.- INDUCES THE PROLIFERATION OF FIBROBLASTS and reconstitutes the optimal functional capability of prematurely senescent fibroblasts.

2.- FACILITATES THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SKIN'S ARCHITECTURE through its action on COLLAGEN FIBERS

3.- HELPS TO REDUCE THE INFLAMMATORY EFFECT caused by denatured proteins in injured and aging skin through its collagenase and gelatinase enzymatic activity

4.- INCLUDES A BALANCED MIXTURE OF NATURAL FACTORS THAT HELP RECOVER THE NORMAL PHYSIOLOGY OF THE SKIN

Low molecular weight proteins >> Fibroblast growth factor activity
High molecular weight proteins >>Oxygen carriers (copper-haemocyanin)
Enzymes >> Collagenase and gelatinase activities
Hyaluronic Acid >> Deep tissue hydration
Glycoproteins/mucopolysaccharides >> For reconstituting the extracellular matrix
Trace elements (Cu, Zn, Fe, Ca2+) >> Cellular renewal
Low molecular weight antioxidant compounds >> Antioxidant & Anti-inflammatory

Natural Ingredient & BioTechnology
Helix Aspersa Müller is a snail that has survived extreme environmental conditions for more than 600 million years. This land gastropod or mollusk has an original defensive mechanism in the form of a complex glycol-conjugate secretion which helps the animal rapidly repair any damage to its skin.

The research into the potential uses of this secretion goes back some 15 years. Our company has conducted research and developed a biotechnology to collect the secretion, by submitting the snails to controlled stress similar to what they have to respond too when a predator threatens them, or when they come into an atmosphere full of oxygen radicals after hibernating. Our company has also developed a biotechnology to secure the bio-availability of the secretion deep within the skin where it interacts with target cells to repair skin damage.

Many scientists, and for many years, have studied snails and their secretions, as they were considered simple creatures, that allowed for research and modeling of biological functions though to be more complex in vertebrates. They have discovered molecules now being considered worthwhile candidates for the development of drugs.

Their findings and those of a new frontier in science called the sweet science of glycobiology, a burgeoning branch that attempts to understand how sugars in the body -called glycans- contribute to human health and contain information as necessary to define the complexity of life as that of DNA and proteins, sheds light onto the possible explanation of a more humble observation by layman people. The observation that manipulating snails while breeding them for their value for those who consider them a gourmet delicacy, yielded soft hands and scar free healing of minor injuries, cuts and scrapes.

Also the further realization, that snails injured by birds are able to repair some of their organs –eyes and mouth- by bubbling onto themselves what seems to be the same secretion they use to crawl more easily, hold onto something while on a vertical position and defying gravity, or to isolate into their shell by the dry secretion on the opercula, or to persuade insects to stay away from them.

Two patents of invention for a procedure designed to gather the secretion and its use in cosmetic or skin care products have been granted. One to a Chilean Doctor, in Chile in 1995, for a procedure to gather the secretions by agitating snails in warm water and then filtering the mucin, and for the use of the extract in a skin care cream made with petrochemical and other chemical excipients. The second to a Spanish Oncologist, in the USA in 1996, for a procedure whereby snails are stressed mechanically to induce the production of their mucin and the use of it for the therapeutic and cosmetic treatment of skin, specially for radiodermatitis. There is also a patent granted in the US in 2000 for the use of a complex glyco-molecule, isolated from the body and also present in the mucins of an African snail, as a drug to inhibit angiogenesis. The applicants of the latter are requesting a patent for the use of the same for the treatment of cancer and inhibiting an increase in the volume or mass of a tumor cancer tumor growth (2005).

The US patent granted in 2000 is about acharan sulfate, a glycosaminoglycan isolated from the soft body tissue of the giant African snail by proteolysis of defatted tissue and purified by fractional precipitation and ion-exchange chromatography, and the snails get killed to get the glycosaminoglycan. While the other two patents mentioned describe a method that does not harm the snails and differ from each other, and from the method our company uses, in how the snails are stimulated to produce the secretion and on how it is collected.

Dr. R. Abad Iglesias, a clinical oncologist was the first to investigate the clinical possibilities of the snail mucin. Its effectiveness was first shown in cases of radiodermatitis following the Chernobyl accident. The ongoing work of a company using Dr Abad’s technology to produce several dermatology products, in collaboration with renowned institutes such as the MD Anderson Center, has shown that acute and chronic radiodermatitis patients experience clear improvements when treated with a cream containing the snail secretion.

These results prompted studies into how it might help skin damaged by photo-aging, acne, injuries, overstretching, pollution or dermatological/medical treatment.

The replacement of biological active substances that the human organism can no longer produce is a new concept in skin care. Helix Aspersa Muller Concentrate provides these substances which act directly to recover and regenerate the skin.