New Developments in Shampoos and Cleansers

We have four announcements that should interest everyone who likes to have the front of their head (also called their face) and the top of the head (also called their scalp) look and feel clean, with great formulations for a great price:

We are happy to announce that NanoSoft™, our emollient facial cleanser, is now sold in 110gr (4oz) packaging at the same price for which we previously offered it in 55gr (2oz) packaging. We are able to double the quantity for the same price due to our new processing technology, which increases the efficiency and flexibility available to us in making shampoos, cleansers, soaps, and detergents. The new doubled size applies to all future sales of NanoSoft™, whether as a standalone product or as part of our Anti-Wrinkle or Anti-Aging facial care regimen kits. This is the new normal size and price for NanoSoft™, not a short-term offer!

We are always working to find better, smarter ways to create great skin and scalp formulations. When we find a way to save money, we enjoy passing that along to you.

Micellarin Fight™ Advanced Shampoo offers good foaming and excellent detergency, leaving scalp clean and hair silky soft.
Botanical ingredients in Micellarin Fight™ are

• green tea [Camellia sinensis]
  source of polyphenols said to have anti-aging protective effects against free radicals
• ku shen [Sophora flavescens]
  traditionally used to control inflammation
• ginseng [Panax ginseng]
  traditionally used to balance skin oil production and improve skin texture
• horsetail [Equisetum arvense]
  rich source of organic silica
• essential oil of rosemary [Rosmarinus officinalis]
  traditional remedy for dermatitis, eczema, and psoriasis

The shampoo also features a special combination of very mild surfactants.

We added no color and no perfume to Micellarin Fight™ shampoo. Its dark color is a direct result of the huge amounts of botanical extracts we add to the shampoo. We don’t use any “botanical color imitators” such as caramel or other darkening agents; we just use pure, honest botanical extracts. The botanicals in Micellarin Fight™  are a unique combination of botanical extracts which have profound roles in the maintenance of healthy-looking and healthy-feeling hair and scalp.

Micellarin Dream™ Facial Cleanser is a revolutionary concept in skincare and maintenance. This gentle and effective, low-foaming cleanser is rich in saponified soy phospholipids and mild surfactants as companion “satellites” around the saponified soy phospholipids, creating the extra mildness, effective cleansing, and fine texture of the cleanser. The revolutionary idea of saponifying phospholipids rather than saponifying oils (which is the traditional method of making soap), then further hybridizing them with extra mild surfactants, yielded a hybrid facial cleanser with great cleansing power which is also light and creamy in texture, low in foaming, and most delicate and gentle for facial cleansing.

After using this cleanser, it is possible to leave the skin without additional moisturizing agents for a while.

Beginning with the publication of this announcement and continuing for the full month of February 2010, we have great offers on our newest cleansing products:

• We will double every purchase of a Micellarin Dream™ Facial Cleanser:
  pay for 110gr (4oz) and receive 220gr (8oz).
• When you buy any two Micellarin Fight™ Shampoos, we will add a third for free:
  pay for 448gr (16oz) and receive 672 gr (24oz).

Stock up now: these offers end when February ends, at midnight as February 28 turns to March 1 here in sunny San Antonio, Texas USA.

Hue-2, companion to Micellarin Hue, now sold separately and in Care Kit for Grey Hair

When we introduced Micellarin Hue™ shampoo in June 2009, we expanded our line of scalp and hair care formulations to directly address an important process: hair’s changes in color and texture. In response to stress, illness, aging, or other factors, some people lose their hair; for other people, hair is not lost but becomes brittle and loses its color. Of course, many people experience both kinds of changes, losing some hair and having the remaining hair lose its color, turning grey or white. Our Micellarin™ shampoos provide excellent scalp cleaning and enhanced hair fullness, no matter how your hair may be changing; with added botanical extracts of bhringraj [Eclipta alba], Micellarin Hue™ also provides a hue-enhancing effect for colorless grey hair.

To strengthen and enhance the effect of Micellarin Hue™ shampoo on white, grey, and greying hair, we are now offering a leave-in lotion, Hue-2™, as a companion product. Like Micellarin Hue™ shampoo, Hue-2™ lotion is rich in bhringraj and other beneficial ingredients; however, while a shampoo is meant to be fully rinsed after brief contact with scalp and hair, Hue-2™ lotion can be applied after shampooing and then left in place for as long as you wish.

The table below lists the key ingredients of both Micellarin Hue™ shampoo and its companion lotion, Hue-2™.

• reduce hair greyness
• increase hair thickness
• increase hair brightness
• darken hair color
• intensify hair hue within the rainge of your natural hair color

To encourage use of these two formulations as a synergistic pair, we are offering special savings when Micellarin Hue™ and Hue-2™ are purchased together: our Grey Hair Care Kit, containing both the shampoo and the leave-in lotion, saves $7 compared to purchasing those two items separately.

Care Kit for Grey Hair: $7 savings!

To check for other special bargains,
please check our “Kits, Sets, Package Deals” listings every time you visit our cosmeceuticals store.

Reversitol: Beyond Resveratrol!

Reversitol™, our Skincare of the Month for September 2009, completing our one-year commitment to the SkincareOf TheMonth program, is an anti-aging cream suitable for all kinds of skin and all areas of skin. It can be massaged into facial skin as well as into scalp. The product’s name is a play on the name of one of its key ingredients, resveratrol, which has acquired a strong reputation for anti-aging effects. Combined with our formulation technologies and additional ingredients supporting skin health, Reversitol™ is an important new development in anti-aging skincare.

Reversing the aging process is one of the oldest quests of humanity since the dawn of of civilization. Progress is being made, but slowly, and with relapses along the road. While only a few centuries ago the average life expectancy of people was about 40 years, it has now doubled because of better understanding of the mechanisms of life, better nutrition, better awareness of hygiene, a good arsenal for fighting microbe-mediated diseases, and an ever-expanding solidity of scientifically-backed treatments for many diseases. However, the human life span (as opposed to life expectancy) has not changed. There were always individuals who lived longer than a hundred years and no one was ever documented to live longer than 130 years. Increased life span is not the same as increased life expectancy. While life expectancy aims at increasing the chances for people to live up to their given potential, increasing life span is still an elusive challenge. This is the challenge of pushing the theoretical limitation of life expectancy to a new range. If people can now live up to about a hundred years if they do everything right and are not visited by unexpected disasters, it may be possible in the near future to aim at 200 years of life under optimal conditions.

It is too early to judge what changes are affecting life expectancy and what can actually affect life span. However, as the largest organ in the body, the skin the the most likely target to affect the entire body in medicinal regimens. Our products are not medicinal but they are based on sound science and in some aspects, including their diversity and ingenuity, are superior to medicinal products.  Reversitol™ is now our Skincare Of The Month but it may very well prove to be the skincare of the decade (to keep it modest) and is definitely the most innovative and broad range anti-aging product of its time.

We have priced this product significantly below its value to allow more people access to its benefits. We encourage you to take this opportunity and try this new and special product: Reversitol™ and start all over again.

The product contains many other unusually luxurious and extremely expensive ingredients, as well as some other important ingredients, which you can see in the list below. Reversitol™ is formulated as a light oil-in-water type nano-emulsion. Due to requests by some customers to formulate a product which lasts longer on the skin but does not  compromise our unique edge of fast and deep penetration of active ingredients, this cream will deliver the active ingredients deep into the skin while maintaining a protective fraction on the skin for people who don’t only wish their skin to be moisturized but want to feel the moisturizer at work.

Featured Ingredients:

• rice bran oil [Oryza sativa]
• sodium PCA
• isosorbide (dimethyl)
• panthenol [pro-Vitamin B5]
  
• cetostearol
• glyceryl stearate
• glycerol
• resveratrol [Polygonum cuspidatum]
• ascorbyl palmitate [oil-soluble Vitamin C]
• L-lysine [amino acid, protein building block]
• isonicotinamide
• essential oil of cedar [Cedrus atlantica]
• adenosine
• essential oil of petitgrain [Citrus aurantium]
• kinetin [plant growth factor]
• ethyl pyruvate
• essential oil of rosemary [Rosmarinus officinalis]
• zinc sulfate
• essential oil of clove [Eugenia caryophyllus]
• essential oil of cinnamon [Cinnamomum cassia]
• cholecalciferol [Vitamin D3]

Reversitol™ is a glossy, white cream with a fresh aroma that is the natural combination of the essentials oils with which it was formulated.

Reversitol™ is available in two sizes: 55 gr (2.0 oz) and 20 gr (0.7 oz).

We have big ideas for the future of our Skincare of the Month project now that it has completed its first year. Keep watching the blog for announcements!

Skincare of the Month Shipped!

Our Skincare of the Month for September 2009 is on its way to qualifying shoppers. Details will follow here very soon. Thank you for your patience!

Anti-Aging and Anti-Wrinkle Regimen Kits Now Available; Vellus Hair Regimen Chart Updated

On your next visit to our online cosmeceuticals store, be sure to look for this symbol and click to see what is available under “Kits, Sets, Package Deals“:

We’ve had three special offers related to scalp care regimens available for some time; we are happy to have just added two new package deals related to facial skin care regimens.  For each of these offers, a substantial savings is available when you buy the set, with everything needed to follow the regimen, rather than buying each item separately.

• Scalp Renewal Regimen for Men (save $100 on 10 cosmeceuticals)
• Scalp Renewal Regimen for Women (save $100 on 10 cosmeceuticals)
• Vellus Hair Care Regimen (save $15 on 2 cosmeceuticals)
• Anti-Aging Facial Skin Care Regimen (save $35 on 4 cosmeceuticals)
• Anti-Wrinkle Facial Skin Care Regimen (save ($25 on 4 cosmeceuticals)

For each of these regimens, we have developed a chart describing our recommended application of the formulations to take maximum advantage of the synergy among them; just follow the product information link from each regimen kit’s sales page to see how we suggest using it.

EquiDerm to Even Skin Texture of People with Cellulite

Application of EquiDerm™ will improve the appearance of uneven skin texture such as cellulite; some of the ingredients in this product are linked to lipid metabolism. Use twice daily and in a few weeks your skin will look significantly more even. Even scars will appear somewhat less bulging.

Uneven skin texture is a very common aspect of different metabolic rates in different regions of the skin. Cellulite is an example of uneven skin texture which is reflected by different thicknesses of fatty layers under the skin. In scalp, such problems are not as visible as with cellulite on the thighs or other body parts. However, many skin disorders including pattern balding reflect different metabolic expressions which are also linked to different activity rates in lipid metabolism in various scalp regions. However, correlations between patterns of lipid metabolism and patterns of balding are not established at this time.

Ingredients in EquiDerm™’s highly-concentrated formulation include:

• Nanosomes™
• U-Fucoidan [U-Fn]
• raspberry ketone
• ascorbyl palmitate
• mowrah butter [Madhuca latifolia]
• benzoin extract [Styrax benzoin]
• pink grapefruit oil [Citrus paradisi]

With EquiDerm™, our Skincare of the Month project approaches completion; the September product will be our grand finale for this challenging one-year project.

For the year that the Skincare of the Month project has been underway, our policy has been to provide each new month’s free skincare to shoppers who made qualifying purchases in the two preceding months; for example, this August Skincare of the Month is on its way to those who made purchases in June and July. As a special offer, celebrating the completion of our twelve-month commitment, we will include September shoppers in this free program: we will of course ship the September Skincare of the Month to those who made qualifying purchases in July and August (the two preceding months); we will also ship it to every customer who makes a qualifying purchase anytime during the month of September.

Because this is our grand finale we urge all consumer who did not make qualifying purchases during the months of July and August to take advantage of this special offer and make a qualifying purchase from our cosmeceuticals store or our custom micro-batch formulator this month! Whatever you are going to purchase, the September SkincareOfTheMonth is most likely going to outvalue it so that your free gift will probably be of higher value than your paid purchase. For now we hope that you will enjoy EquiDerm™, our August SkincareOfTheMonth, which is now shipping to all qualified customers.

EquiDerm for Even Skin Texture

New Payment Option for Retail and Custom Micro-Batch Cosmeceuticals

When we can find a way to do it, we always like to support our shoppers’ personal preferences. That’s very much what www.the-formulator.com is all about: if you like your skincare to have a certain aroma, to use a specific oil or vitamin, or to include your favorite active ingredients, we’re happy to listen to your description of the skincare of your dreams, and even happier to manufacture it for you. Maybe that particular combination is not what anyone else would choose, but with The Formulator from Elsom Research your unique preferences are not a problem.

Beyond the skincare and cosmeceuticals we make, there is also room for choice and preference in the process of placing and paying for an order. For example, we have some shoppers who would rather mail us a check than use a credit card; that’s always been fine with us, and it still is.

Most of our shoppers choose to pay online by credit card; since 2007, the method we have offered for this has been Google Checkout, which securely processes MasterCard, Visa, Discover, and American Express payments. Some shoppers, though, have asked for a way to pay us by credit card without relying on Google’s services; we are now happy to provide that option through the services of Paymate, an Australia-based company which securely processes MasterCard, Visa, and Discover payments in 57 countries.

This is an additional option: you are still welcome to pay online via Google Checkout or to pay offline by mailing us a check or money order.

Our Shopping Help page includes illustrated explanations of the checkout process, which is the same for our retail cosmeceuticals and our custom micro-batch formulations. In general, after you have placed the items you wish to purchase in your shopping cart, look at the lower right of the shopping cart page and choose one of the checkout options:

click to pay online through Google Checkout, which can process MasterCard, Visa, Discover, and American Express.

click  to choose from two sub-options:

• pay online through Paymate, which can process MasterCard, Visa, and Discover
• pay offline by mailing us a check or money order.

This also gives us two ways, through Google Checkout or through Paymate, of sending an online invoice for large orders, non-retail items, and special processing. It’s always good to have choices!

We hope this new payment method will be convenient for many shoppers; in our testing, it has been very easy and fast to use, but of course the best test is for shoppers to try it. Please contact us with your questions, comments and feedback about this or any aspect of Elsom Research products and projects.

LipoRestore with Olive Squalane: for the Skin Barrier

The skin acts as a protective barrier against environmental insults on the body. However, the skin itself is not exempt from such environmental insults and its barrier activity is diminished as it is constantly exposed to the elements. Detergents and pollution work on the same side when it comes to undermining the skin’s ability to act as a barrier. One of the most important molecules which improves and can replenish the skin barrier is cholesterol, a molecule which is usually of bad reputation when it comes to general health. In many cases, this reputation is unjustified, especially in the case of protecting the skin barrier. Squalene, an important precursor in cholesterol biosynthesis,  has been noted for its usefulness in improving the skin barrier; in its saturated form as squalane, it is more stable and very fluid as compared with cholesterol; it is also extremely mosturizing. The problem with squalane is that it is commonly extracted from shark oil, which is not something most people will want to apply to their skins on a daily basis. In LipoRestore™, our Skincare of the Month for July 2009, we use squalane which is extracted from olive oil, a more appealing source although it is also more expensive.  While olive oil itself has a strong aroma, the squalene extract is odorless, making it a very pleasant ingredient in skincare.

With our LipoRestore™ cream, rich in olive squalane, the restoration of skin lipids is quite rapid and can be noticed on first application. The long-term effects are great-looking moisturized skin with dimished appearance of pores and lines and a healthy-feeling texture and appearance.  LipoRestore™ is designed to leave a light texture on top of the skin and makes overworked, hard, and scaly skin smooth and flexible again.  LipoRestore™ can be applied to the face or to any area of the body. If you put it on your hands you will notice immedietly that fingers which were stiff and almost “frozen” due to the pulling of their dry skin become flexible and you can suddenly bend them with relative ease.

LipoRestore: for the Skin Barrier

Terminal 2 Scalp Care for People with Vellus Hair

Terminal 2 is now available!

Among the ingredients in Terminal 2 are:

• jojoba oil [Simmondsia chinensis]
• ascorbyl palmitate
• monolaurin
• L-glutamine
• L-taurine
• ethyl creatine
• L-glutamic acid
• L-arginine
• ethyl pyruvate
• L-glycine
• essential oils of frankincense [Boswellia carteri] and petitgrain [Citrus aurantium].

Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 are meant to be used together as follows:

Use Terminal 1 for 2-4 weeks on a daily basis.

After this initial period, you can start alternating with Terminal 2.

Apply Terminal 2 every third day;  the other two days, use Terminal 1.

It is very important to wash hair and scalp before use of Terminal 2 and before switching back to Terminal 1.

For both Terminal 1 and Terminal 2, leave on scalp for 12-24 hours to maximize results.

We have combined Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 into a Vellus Hair Kit which includes 55gr (2oz) of each product for a special price, a savings of $15 compared to the price of buying both items separately.

For customers who purchased Terminal 1 by July 2, 2009, before Terminal 2 was available, we have a special offer:

Buy Terminal 2 by July 31, 2009 and we will refund $15 of the purchase price, as well as shipping charges. This will provide you with both Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 at the same cost as the Vellus Hair Kit.

Save $15 when you buy both Terminal 1 and Terminal 2

Scalp Care for Vellus Hair, Part 1

Scalp Care for Vellus Hair, Part 2

Facial Cleanser with Emollient Technology

NanoSoft™ Emollient Facial Cleanser, our Skincare of the Month for June 2009,  is a gentle and effective low-foaming cleanser featuring:

• active Nanosomes™
• monoglycerides [stearyl glycerol]
• potassium lactate [pH-balanced lactic acid]
• essential oil of frankincense [Boswellia carteri].

Shoppers have asked for it for years. We’ve been working on it, but making something special rather than just an ordinary face wash has taken some time. NanoSoft™ is at last a high-technology daily cleanser that is worthy of membership in our New Equilibrium line of cosmeceuticals.

Buy NanoSoft Emollient Facial Cleanser at new-equilibrium-cosmeceuticals.com!