Machine learning-based BOTOX API
Tl;dr: Here is a BOTOX API for measuring skin/muscle movement in key areas. Share this with your technical team so that they can integrate it […]
Cosmetic
Do Facial Lines make you Angry?
It is often difficult to achieve an objective definition of beauty. It is even more difficult to assess the self-perception of beauty at a cognitive […]
Peptide design for skin rejuvenation
Helium Ion Microscopy of collagen (Photo credit: ZEISS Microscopy) Skin rejuvenation peptides are cosmetic dermatology’s answer to retinoids. Retinoids stimulate collagen production at the transcriptional […]
The Embrace That SNAPS the SNARE – Argireline Part 2
Please read Argireline Part 1 and the full series here. Acetyl hexapeptide-3 has one major advantage. BoNT/A causes permanent destruction of SNAP-25 of the SNARE complex, triggering […]
The peptide avengers – Part 4
Read the full series here. Matrixyl 3000 was a double-headed serpent (a mixture of Palmitoyl Oligopeptide & Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7). He had a weapon that others did […]
Hyaluronic Acid and the hidden beauty. Peptides Part 3
Peptide bond formation. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Read the full series here. KTTKS was the son of alpha-pro-collagen I, the most influential dermal fibrous protein. He was […]
3 villains in the peptide story – Part 2
Read the full series here. Prologue: The dermis has fibrillar components called Collagen and Elastin embedded in an Extracellular matrix composed of Glicosamino glycans (GAG), hyaluronic […]
Axillary hyperpigmentation
The article below describes the use of topical niacinamide and topical desonide in axillary hyperpigmentation from the Dovepress journal: Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology. Axillary hyperpigmentation […]
Does your face cream make you fat?!
Pink in honor of breast cancer awareness programs (Photo credit: beapen) Long term readers of my blog would know me as an anti-sunscreen and anti-fairness […]