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[VictorBjoerk]

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Skin Actives is proud to launch our most exciting product ever plant mitochondria concentrate. Up to now skin care products have been designed to repair existing mitochondria, our new active takes a massive step beyond that with a completely new technology that provides mitochondrial spare parts to the skin.

Dr. Sivak has also formulated a new mitochondrial booster cream with the mitochondria concentrate.

Any opinions about this? If it is not only hype it seems promising.

[kismet]

Plant mitochondria? Well, hope they don't grow no roots in da face.

[niner]

Skin Actives is proud to launch our most exciting product ever plant mitochondria concentrate. Up to now skin care products have been designed to repair existing mitochondria, our new active takes a massive step beyond that with a completely new technology that provides mitochondrial spare parts to the skin.

Any opinions about this? If it is not only hype it seems promising.

My first thought is that their copy writer needs to learn about punctuation. My second thought is that it sounds like it wouldn't work. Mitochondrial spare parts? How exactly do they get from the surface of the skin, a system evolved to exclude foreign proteins and the like, and make their way to the mitochondria?

[SloMoSandy]

Lol.. seems cosmetic industry starts to catch up with the terms... *waits for an even more effective Organelle replacement face scrub*

[caston]

Plants don't have mitochondria they have chloroplasts.

[cheesycow5]

Plants don't have mitochondria they have chloroplasts.

They certainly do have mitochondria.

http://www.sparknote...s/section1.html

[caston]

OK I stand corrected.

[mitkat]

Skin Actives is proud to launch our most exciting product ever plant mitochondria concentrate. Up to now skin care products have been designed to repair existing mitochondria, our new active takes a massive step beyond that with a completely new technology that provides mitochondrial spare parts to the skin.

Any opinions about this? If it is not only hype it seems promising.

My first thought is that their copy writer needs to learn about punctuation. My second thought is that it sounds like it wouldn't work. Mitochondrial spare parts? How exactly do they get from the surface of the skin, a system evolved to exclude foreign proteins and the like, and make their way to the mitochondria?

I agree on both points, Niner. I hate seeing a pseudoscientific cosmetic salespitch enough as it is, but the editor seems asleep at the switch. Also, we have enough problems getting all manner of simpler agents in a cream absorbed into the skin...how could mitochondria be taken in through the dermis? Sounds like they're hoping people will read 'mitochondria', turns a few wheels in the consumer's head and make a sale.

[kismet]

I am sure they included some nanoparticles which will generate quantum and the quantum will move the mitos spare parts... ah, whatever, it's a despicable scam.

Edited by kismet, 18 November 2009 - 06:46 PM.

[cheesycow5]

I am sure they included some nanoparticles which will generate quantum and the quantum will move the mitos spare parts... ah, whatever, it's a despicable scam.

With electrolytes.