Mauritio
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I think Lanolin is a great anti aging tool for skin health, not only but especially for sun damage. It tackles the problem right at the root cause.
If I were to create a beauty product I would simply mix it with pure vitamin E Oil (maybe add some estroban). Should save you tons of money because most of the beauty products are just that: fat + a little vitamins, only in a worse composition.
If I were to create a beauty product I would simply mix it with pure vitamin E Oil (maybe add some estroban). Should save you tons of money because most of the beauty products are just that: fat + a little vitamins, only in a worse composition.
Sounds like putting lanolin on your skin is one of the best anti-aging strategies, because of its high cholesterol content:
"The characteristic opacity of aged skin is the result of an accumulation of layers of dead cells on the surface. While the vital underlying skin cells contain much less cholesterol than normal, the inert cells contain an increased amount of cholesterol sulfate .
When the skin's free cholesterol content is increased experimentally, the skin remains its ability to shed dead superficial cells. When it is lowered experimentally, as with a statin, the skin takes on the structure and appearance of old skin. Aging seems to be a state of cholesterol starvation.
In allowing skin cells to shed naturally, cholesterol is activating a proteolytic enzyme and restoring the skin's normal barrier function and acidic pH. "
From: Cholesterol in Context Part II: A Formative Medium
This study shows that even a 2 minute UV-Light exposure can drastically lower the cholesterol level in the skin, sometimes by up to 80%. Even taking in the effect that a lot of that is converted to Vitamin D, which is beneficial, I suspect that sun's skin aging effect is not just an inflammatory damage process, but also simply a reduction of cholesterol in the skin. So given the Peat quote below, Lanolin seems to be a good anti-aging/ anti-sun damage tool.
"Aging seems to be a state of cholesterol starvation.
In allowing skin cells to shed naturally, cholesterol is activating a proteolytic enzyme and restoring the skin's normal barrier function and acidic pH. "
-RP
Also this study shows that applying lanolin to the skin and the irradiating it with UV light increases the free cholesterol content by about 5 times. So that is interesting as well, and suggests applying lanolin to your body before sun bathing.
"The amount of free sterols in anhydrous lanolin which is pre- cipitated by digitonin, and expressed in terms of free cholesterol, is 0.93 mg. per 100 mg. of lanolin.
When anhydrous lanolin is irradiated with ultra-violet light, there is a progressive gradual rise in the amount of free sterols precipitated by digitonin, the maximum rise being reached at the end of 1 hour. The free sterols expressed as free cholesterol increased from 0.93 to 5.37 mg. per 100 mg. of lanolin. "
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