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Post by helens on Aug 21, 2013 16:03:03 GMT -5
Ohhh... serum albumin proteins for wrinkle smoothing... but I don't think that's financially feasible for the majority of cosmetic companies, simply because of the rapid breakdown and super short shelf life. Maybe in a cosmetic surgeon's office, but I've never heard of that offered. While bovine and even egg white albumin aren't as effective, they are also very inexpensive. Now you have me wondering WHO would use human albumin... only people who make sense would be the Japanese manufacturers due to cost and shelf-life.
Plasma is also used directly for the coagulants in medicine too. I can't imagine they'd centrifuge it out just to sell it to cosmetic companies. (not saying they don't, just saying that it seems unlikely for the above reasons).
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Post by vegasjames on Aug 22, 2013 1:09:20 GMT -5
The plasma collected for medical use generally comes from blood banks while the stuff used in cosmetics comes from plasma centers. I looked up an old post I did on this on another site a while back: Commercial plasma can be collected by separation from blood collected at blood blanks, or directly from blood at plasma centers. Human plasma was once used to make many of our vaccines, although very few use human plasma anymore. Human plasma separated from blood collected at blood banks is used primarily: - In the manufacturing of laboratory reagents such as biomarkers fro clinical diagnosis. -To harvest antibodies. -To harvest platelets and coagulation factors (factor VII and factor IX), I used to do some work for a plasma center and know that the majority of the plasma collected and sold by plasma centers is used in the manufacturing of cosmetics. Plasma is also being used in a fairly new procedure known as a "vampire facelift". You can read about the procedure in these links: blogs.webmd.com/cosmetic-surgery/2011/04/the-vampire-facelift-m ore-nonsense-or-not-2.html www.willsurgicalarts.com/platelet-rp.htmlwww.visagefacialsurgery.com/platelet-rich-plasma.html
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Post by helens on Aug 22, 2013 8:45:52 GMT -5
Ahh... interesting articles:). That's what I thought, that they used it as a media for collagen injections and also bone grafting, which I guess could be considered a cosmetic application if the injection is done in the face for reconstructive surgery.
It all makes sense, it's just an entire industry I wasn't aware of before. I know it was used as a media for vaccines...seems the safest bet. I read the other day that they were using propylene glycol for vaccine carriers now...eep.
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