Ivan S. Pullicino B.Pharm. (Hons.) M.Sc.
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ALTA CARE Laboratoires, an independent multinational company with head offices on Avenue Champs-Elysees, Paris. Founded by pharmacists who work in the EU, With over twenty years of experience in professional consultancy ALTA CARE Laboratoires over the years has produced products for other multinational companies. Recently, the group of pharmacists and doctors decided not to work exclusively for third parties but also to build its own brand ALTA CARE Laboratoires. ALTA CARE Laboratoires immediately expanded its know how in the manufacture of nutriceuticals and phyto-therapy to produce an exclusively innovative line of products specializing in food supplements, luxury skincare products and aesthetic machinery. ALTA CARE Laboratoires full range of products can be viewed on www.altacare.com
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Men rarely complain about shoes, but women do, and very often! For special functions and even for a night of dancing, high-heels seem to be a must. Consequently women have to wear shoes that are too tight and that cause pain around the balls of the feet and the bones in that area. Venalta Cryogel Massage produced by Alta Care Laboratoires, is a pain-relief gel with a cold effect that improves micro-circulation. This cold effect improves the penetration of the product's active ingredients.
Sam walks out of the pub to smoke and after a couple of minutes he's back in the bar with his friends drinking. When it's time for them to leave, they walk happily to his car to return home. Hardly has he buckled his safety-belt that out comes the cigarette and he starts smoking. His friends, who happen to be non-smokers, are in a few minutes engulfed in smoke. But they are now used to it.
Isn't the desire to look and feel forever-young part and parcel of our nature? Don't we all try to reverse the visible signs of aging such as wrinkles, age spots and pigmentation? Aging is a natural process, you might say. But isn't the dermal layer of our skin being subjected to solar radiation, ultra violet rays and chemical pollutions.
Nicosolven Coenzyme CoQ10, an endogenous cellular constituent present in mitochondria, is a mediator of electron transport and energy production. Its action as co-antioxidant with vitamin E and vitamin C, by its ability to maintain both products in their reduced state, was recently confirmed by Crane and Navas. The preventive benefits of Nicosolven are important to people who live in polluted cities or places.
Dandruff, the tiny little flakes that fall on to our shoulders after causing a constant and uncontrollable itching on the scalp, is very often caused by a genetic condition known as seborrheic dermatitis. This happens after puberty when the sebaceous sweat glands in seborrhea cannot function until hormones secreted during puberty appear. The sweat glands go into overdrive and produce sebum that contributes to the ‘greasy' texture of dandruff.
For centuries zinc has been recognized for its unique healing properties. In the 13th century Marco Polo observed that the Persians used tutia (meaning zinc oxide, or perhaps zinc sulphate) to heal wounds and sore eyes. Eighteenth-century apothecaries in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia dispensed skin remedies made from calamine, a mineral form of zinc. Today most medicine cabinets still contain lotions and creams containing zinc.
Thousands of years ago, ancient peoples attributed pain to spirits and treated it with mysticism and incantations. Over the centuries, science has provided us with a remarkable ability to understand and control pain with medications, surgery, and other treatments. Today, scientists understand a great deal about the causes and mechanisms of pain, and research has produced dramatic improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of a number of painful disorders.
Why are the luxurious ingredients of the DERMASTIR LUXURY COLLECTION by ALTA CARE Laboratoires, Paris, presented to its distinguished clients, in flic-jars? What's so special about these containers? These innovative containers are designed in such a way that the precious ingredients of the DERMASTIR day and night creams, those of the eye contour cream, as well as those of the Dermastir Gold, are constantly kept in a vacuum to prevent oxidization and contamination by contact with the air.
Dermastir microdermaabrasion with crystals is an aesthetic treatment that helps one to solve many facial problems like, stretchmarks, pigmentation, dilated pores, sagging skin, fine wrinkles, scars and acne. By means of a mechanical movement and a deep but delicate exfoliation of the upper layer of the epidermis, microdermaabrasion with Dermastir crystals renews, in an efficacious and painless way, the skin, making it more compact and bright.
Histologically, there are 4 types of wrinkles. 1. Atrophic wrinkles occur when the skin gets thin, because the epidermis looses collagen and elastic fibres. 2. Elastotic wrinkles occur as a consequence of change in skin. They appear because of chronic exposure to UV lights, for example sun or solarium. These wrinkles are stable and have a typical criss-cross pattern. 3. Gravitation or dangling wrinkles are the affect of gravitation. They are also connected to loss of collagen.
