| Warning: PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment | | | | containing three percent DMAE by weight the a |
| of Animals), is not going to like this. Researchers | | | | rabbit's ear (and those things are supposed to be |
| used rabbits to discover just how much of the | | | | lucky). Upon observation, the examiners credited |
| "cosmeceutical" DMAE it takes to plump up a | | | | the DMAE with causing "vacuolization" in the |
| wrinkled face. Just so that those rabbits' sacrifices | | | | rabbit's skin. Vacuolization happens as the skin cells |
| to the world of beauty are not vain, let us utilize | | | | develop more spaces between each cell. This |
| those tidbits of aesthetic insight for the | | | | space expansion creates a temporary skin |
| betterment of antiaging advocates around the | | | | plumping effect akin how a down pillow gets |
| world. | | | | larger simply by fluffing it up and adding more air |
| While members of the skin care industry term | | | | between each feather. |
| DMAE (agent 2-dimethylaminoethanol) a | | | | Eventually the spaces dissipate, your skin looks |
| "cosmeceutical", the Food and Drug Administration | | | | sunken-again- and you have to reapply the DMAE |
| does not recognize that term. The pseudo | | | | enhanced cosmeceutical. So, if you are looking |
| scientific tag "cosmeceutical" attributes both | | | | around a recently Windexed cosmetics booth at |
| medicinal and cosmetic properties to a given skin | | | | your neighborhood Nordstrom's, just confirm that |
| care ingredient. In short, christening a cosmetic | | | | that $95, one-half ounce of wrinkle eater cream |
| "cosmeceutical" permits manufactures to | | | | contains at least three percent DMAE by weight. |
| circumvent the FDA's timely and costly drug | | | | And before you pull out your VISA card to rack |
| application process that calls for mammal martyrs. | | | | up more airline points, test the cream or gel on |
| Ironically, cosmeceuticals comprising DMAE can | | | | your forearm to insure that you have no allergies |
| approach the costs of prescriptions drugs. Plus, | | | | to this miraculous cosmeceutical. |
| DMAE does "affect the structure or any function | | | | Sources: |
| of the body", which in the FDA's lexicon, make it's | | | | Morissette, G; LGermain and F Marceau. The |
| a drug. So just how much of this, uhmm, drug do | | | | antiwrinkle effect of topical concentrated |
| you need to get your wrinkle fix? According to a | | | | 2-dimethylaminoethanol involves a vacuolar |
| study from the British Journal of Dermatology, | | | | cytopathology. British Journal of Dermatology; |
| the magic number is three percent. | | | | March 2007, vol 156, no 3, p 433-439. |
| In the study, scientists applied a compound | | | | |