I use it orally. I started as a guinea pig, I consult a supplement company and they offered me to test development product that among others contained pycnogenol. I never believed it would make any difference (I am usually quite sceptic) but in this case I was pleasantly surprised since it evened out my complexion, especially some really stubborn discolorations that not even tretinoin nor hydroquinone did resolve. The company eventually decided not to market this product because of small profit margin and high price but I continue to use pycnogenol.
In Australia it is $900 per injection!!!
Musely makes a compounded tretinoin, hyaluronic acid, and niacinamide for about $30 a month.
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Iām from Europe and would like to try it but Musely only ships to the USA and as prescribed medicationsā¦ are there any alternatives in Europe? The dark spot cream and the hair loss topical solution with minoxidil looks great.
Topical application of Urolithin A slows intrinsic skin aging and protects from UVB-mediated photodamage: Findings from Randomized Clinical Trials
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Competing Interest Statement
The authors declare the following competing interests: D.D., A.M.F., J.F., C.R. and A.S., are employees of Amazentis SA, who is the sponsor of this clinical study.
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I looked Radiesse injections up for getting it done here in Belgium where I live, and there is a chain of clinics specialised in fillers who do 1,5 ml Radiesse injections / face zone for 250 euro. I am going to consult a docter there to get some more info
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Itās a very good price. In the States itās much more.
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Great price, try it out. In Spain, it was $350 per syringe. Better price than the states but not better than your price.
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Putting my oar in here because Iāve heard of something new recently. Well new to me, though itās been around the block for a while ā carboxy therapy, aka subdermal injections with CO2 gas. If I werenāt pregnant Iād be all over this as DIY, the kits on AliExpress are under $100 and the CO2 disposable cartridges are pretty cheap (cost can be further reduced by using a CO2 generator kit to refill them).
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jocd.15741
Look up the procedure on YouTubeāpretty basic.
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They both look great considering they are over 65, but the second clip thee lady looks amazing. the clock must have stopped when she was 40. I def want what she is using.
Anyone heard for VolufilineTM or tried it?
I just met a friend for brunch, we havenāt seen each other for some weeks and when she came, I noticed she looks way better, like if she had cosmetic fillers or laser procedure done. I asked her, what has she done and she said she started to use few drops of VolufilineTM with her normal facial cream. I just came home and googled this and it is really just some botanical extract and seems unbelievable how it changed her face.
I found a picture online that could be comparable to her change, but my friend is 44 and plumped skin makes her way younger than last time I saw her.
Volufilineā¢ is sarsasapogenin extracted from the roots of Asian botanical Anemarrhena asphodeloides, in an oil-soluble excipient. It promotes body volume by a cosmetic lipofilling-like effect. It stimulates adipocyte differentiation and proliferation, and promotes lipid storage leading to an increase of adipocyte volume in the fatty tissue. Cosmetically, this product is used in bodycare emulsions for breasts, buttocks, hand or cheeks.
https://www.crodapersonalcare.com/en-gb/product-finder/product/3043-volufiline
volufiline.pdf (3.5 MB)
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Your friend looks much younger than 44. Twice younger. Where to buy this product?
The photos are not my friend. It is from random you tube review I found.
She said she got it from her cosmetologist but I googled it and it is available on amazon.
I am just sceptical, that she was pulling my leg and got some fillers or something. I could not find much about this product, just two studies.
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Looks like this stuff may be a similar concept (or at least goal) as Adipeau face cream, where they try to replace lost facial fat. I believe the Adipeau cream is supposed to cause the oily components to slide down the hair follicle and get absorbed into the adipocyte.
Iāll be honest, I canāt tell which photo is the before photo in the above post.
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What makes me suspicious about these photos is that the lighting in the āafterā photo is clearly brighter, which is going to eliminate shadows and generally look better. Before and after photos should have the exact same lighting and other external conditions for them to even be potentially valid, and this is unfortunately almost never the case.
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Why they always use young ppl as models? Itās even difficult to say what is before and whatās after. Both are extremely good. I would like to see a 70 year old face before and after.
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