Beauty giant Maybelline (owned by L’Oreal) will extend its brand of Garnier hair care into skin care in the United States, early next year.
The fifteen product facial care line, named Garnier Nutritioniste, is already available in Europe, and will compete in the US against companies such as Procter & Gamble (Olay), Johnson & Johnson (Neutrogena), and some lines of its parent company, L’Oreal.
The line will position as the ultimate choice for skin care combining the best of nutrients and dermatology. This means the line will focus on being good for you, as it improves your skin and makes you more beautiful too.
The line will focus on cleansing, firming, and skin cell regeneration, and the cost is expected to range from $5.99-$16.99.
In the cleansing line, Nutrioniste Nutri-Pure, there will be a gel cleanser, detoxifying cream cleanser, a moisturizing cream scrub, and wet cleansing towelettes (presumably for removing makeup).
The Ultra-lift line is targeted at women over age 40, and will include firming cream, firming serum, and anti-wrinkle cream. This line will include omega fatty acids and rice protein in the ingredients list.
The third line, Skin Renew, will include moisture cream, regenerating serum, SPF lotion, and a home microdermabrasion kit. This line will contain antioxidants such as Vitamin C and lycopene.
If you like the Garnier hair care products, watch your shelves for the appearance of the Garnier Skin Care line in early 2007.
New research from the University of California, Riverside, has found that applying insulin directly to wounds of the skin significantly enhances the natural healing process.
Insulin is most well known for its capacity to regulate blood sugar levels, but it now also appears to play a role in improved wound healing.
Wounds treated with insulin healed faster than those which remained untreated.
The mechanism is thought to be regulated by keratinocytes, which are stimulated by insulin.
It is also related to the fact that people with diabetes (who generally have low insulin) also experience poor wound healing.
This finding may have important benefits for the American health care system, which expends significant resources to treat non-healing or chronic wounds.
While it helps reduce health care costs, insulin can also improve healing and quality of life for diabetes patients and others with chronic skin wounds.
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Common wisdom suggests that cutting back on smoking (that is, smoking fewer cigarettes per day) should offer some health benefits, since you are exposing yourself to less tobacco per day.
However, new research shows that this may not be true.
Heavy smokers who cut down on their cigarettes actually seem to inhale more deeply and more often from each cigarette. This means their body gets the amount of nicotine its used to, and their overall tobacco exposure is the same (if not more) than before.
This habit is termed “compensatory smoking” and it may prevent any health benefits from reducing smoking.
Smokers who cut their cigarette smoking by half continue to experience the same levels of smoking related illnesses (including heart disease and emphysema). This would make sense if the individual is compensating by gaining more nicotine from each cigarette.
This finding means that reducing your cigarette smoking is only effective when used as a step towards quitting completely.
