The "Lousebuster"- a device that looks like a blend of a hair dryer and a vacuum cleaner could soon be in a drugstore near you.

As it's name suggests, the Lousebuster gets rid of lice, with a "near perfect success rate", according to one of its inventors.

Children are prone to picking up lice while at school, and the treatment of choice has been special lice combs and insecticides. The problem is that the lice combs take a very long time to use, and most parents don't feel comfortable about putting insecticides on their children.

The Lousebuster works by delivering very hot air right to the root of the hair, killing lice and their eggs.

Because the device uses heat, and not chemicals, it is unlikely that lice will become immune to this treatment, as they have to some pesticides used in the past.

In clinical tests, this device killed 98 percent of eggs and 80% of living lice. The remaining lice appeared unable to breed, perhaps due to stress or sterilization due to the high heat. After one week, there were no lice left.

The device seems to work by rapidly dehydrating the lice- drying them out, as it were.

While the costs for initial equipment will be high, the inventors are confident that they can get the cost down and the required treatment cycle lessened from 30 minutes to 15: making this device affordable for school districts.

The Lousebuster is expected to come to market in a year or two, and, probably, a year after this, will be available in a drugstore near you.

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 A new study shows that coffeeberry, one of nature's most powerful antioxidants, promises good things for skin care. In clinical tests, Coffeeberry has been shown to decrease superficial damage from sun exposure and free radicals.

Coffeeberry does this by the fact of being made of four powerful phenol antioxidants. The fact that it contains so many phenols makes coffeeberry stronger and more effective than green tea, vitamin C, vitamin E, pomegranates and blueberries.

Coffeeberry is the primary ingredient in the Revaleskin skin care line, and has been shown to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. It has also been shown to reduce skin pigmentation caused from sun overexposure and it has been shown to diminish skin inflammation in less than a month.

The coffeeberry in Revaleskin worked without any allergic reaction or adverse side effects.

Coffeeberry, as it sounds, comes from the fruit of the coffee plant (coffea arabica). This is the same plant which provides the coffee beans for your morning cup of joe. When coffeeberry is harvested before becoming ripe, it retains its peak antioxidant properties. Coffeeberry does not clog pores or irritate the skin.

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The University of Pennsylvania has been studying a new technology which allows the creation of new hair follicles in adult mammals- the first time this has ever occurred.

The team studying this found that skin has the ability to revert to a primitive or "embryonic" stage during wound healing. This means that to heal a wound, the skin transforms itself into primitive stem cells which migrate to the damaged areas and regenerate as needed.

Through manipulation of genetic pathways, researchers were able to control the regenerative reaction, and created new hair follicles. These created hair follicles performed exactly as regular hair follicles.

Taken together, this means that skin cells can be guided to behave in new ways, which has significant possibilities for improved treatment and wound healing options.

This technology may allow for treatment of follicular disorders such as hair loss and excess hair.

The technology has been licensed by beauty supply manufacturer, Follica, who are studying this method as a way to prevent and treat a variety of hair and skin disorders.

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