Anti-Aging Rating: 3 Overall Impression: Fair
Review
Around the turn of the century Skin Medica came out with the TNS Recovery Complex, which received a great amount of attention as being the first product to use engineered human fibroblasts in a skin care formula. They claimed this medium caused skin to regenerate itself when topically applied with a handful of clinical studies to back up these assertions. Surprisingly, there actually seems to be some substantiation to this claim, though there are some issues as well that need to be addressed. These products actually have clinical study behind them, especially behind the active human fibroblast ingredient, and they seem to point to a fairly dramatic effect in reversing the signs of aging in the skin. However, the issue with this is that these were all in-house studies, and there are no independent lab tests to confirm the results (and no way of knowing how liberal of a license the company took in interpreting the results). However, even if embellished the results do clearly show a positive effect this engineered human fibroblast medium has on the skin.
Hover, the overall ratings that reviewers have have given this line only came out to �Fair� because of some key shortcomings. Most notably, many of the products seems to only have the human fibroblast medium as their active ingredient. While they do not publish their ingredients on their website, some of their retail outlets do publish an ingredient list for Skin Medica products. Their signature product, the TNS Recover Complex, for instance only has the following ingredients: Human Fibroblast Conditioned Media, Ethoxydiglycol, Isoceteth-20, Triethanolamine, Carbomer, Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Butylparaben, Ethylparaben, Isobutylparaben, Fragrance. The only active ingredient here is the Human Fibroblast Conditioned Media, which certainly seems to be beneficial but completely lacks antioxidants, nutrients, plant extracts, amino acid peptides, etc. The use of paraben preservatives and �fragrance� also are quite disappointing. So while this human fibroblast ingredient is very interesting it alone is not an end-all to skin aging concerns.
Typical Price Range
Up to $135 for a face product and up to $70 for an eye-area product.
Website
www.skinmedica.com
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None, since no other line uses a �human fibroblast conditioned media.�
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