By Dr. Michel A. Hegi, PhD Senior scientist for The Skin Society
Mother Nature, by design engineered your skin to efficiently protect your internal organs from the other natures designed elements and their possible invasion.
This is why most natural ingredients do not works on your skin before being chemically manipulated by human.
Think about it… You drink herbal tea after infusing it in hot water; you do not eat freshly cut Chamomile flower or Ginseng roots.
Even after the process of drying the herbs grinding, infusing and drinking them, a very complicated chemical transformation occurs in your very own body.
First the tea enter your stomach where is dumped in a pool of highly corrosive hydrochloric acid which dilute every molecule of the ingested material. After this process millions of very chemically selective enzymes start working at separating and transforming every minute part of this acidic material into nutrients small enough to pass the final filtration that will occurs in your intestinal track which will separate the good and made it available to each individual part of your body before discarding the useless portion.
As human we are nothing more than a walking thinking and feeling chemical plant!
As a chemist I try to replicate the chemical process that occurs naturally in your body, using glass and steel equipment to extract the essential molecules from natural ingredient and make them available to you by penetrating the deeper layers of your skin.
They are losing their original names! In order for scientist to recognize every individual ingredients they will lose their original name given at birth and be identified by the chemical process they were submitted to during their transformation, or just a new name. (Like in marriage: The wife assume the name of her husband)
To simplify what I am trying to illustrate in those few words is that: When you rub rosehip or lemon on your skin nothing much will happen. But if I extract the vitamin C out of this very same lemon; and you rub vitamin C on your skin instead of lemon it will rehydrate your collagen. Vitamin C is not lemon anymore but it originally was.
This is the miracle of chemistry.
Michel A. Hegi, PhD.
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