Tell Me The Role Of Functional Keratin In Skin Care.

Once you start researching skin care it won't be long before you start to learn about keratin. What is keratin?

You can find keratin in our hair and nails and our skin, amongst others. It is a protein that is very strong.

Keratin is formed by cells called keratinocytes and is found mainly in the epidermis of our skin, and they will slowly make their way to the surface of the skin where they form a protective layer of dead skin cells which are slowly lost over time.

Keratin has some vital roles in maintaining the function of our skin. It produces some waterproofing qualities, for example. But the main function of keratin in our skin is to promote skin strength and elasticity.

Both these are important for optimal skin health, and as our skin ages it starts to lose some of its ability to maintain its strength and elasticity and this is due in part to a reduction in keratin.

So you would be accurate in assuming that if you use skin care products with keratin in them you are restoring your stores of skin keratin and thereby improving your skin strength and elasticity right? Wrong.

You see the keratin that is used in mainstream skin care products is extracted from the horns and hooves of animals and is extracted using acid and heat. This results in the keratin being denaturalized by a process called hydrolization. Denaturalized simply means that its no longer of use to your skin because its form has been changed.

So what is functional keratin? This is keratin that is extracted from the wool of sheep without using heat or acid, and so it is not denaturalized. It is functional in the sense that it is still in a form that is available for the skin to use.

One very small company has only very recently perfected this process and has patented it, and puts the functional keratin into a product called Cynergy TK that is used only in the very best skin care products available.

There have been studies done on the effectiveness of products that include Cynergy TK and the results have been impressive with visible reductions in wrinkles and fine lines, and a improvement in overall skin complexion.

You can get skin care products that contain Cynergy TK. Cynergy TK is very expensive, but the products containing it aren't any more expensive than the mainstream skin care products because the company that makes them doesn't advertise so saves huge amounts of it's budget, and puts this back into product quality.

The price of big brand skincare products has to reflect the cost of the advertising.

So now you know more about keratin and what it does in the skin, and about what funtional keratin is.

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