If you\’ve spent any time reading about skin health and skin care you\’ll start reading about keratin pretty soon. What is it?
You can find keratin in many parts of our bodies. It is a very strong protein that can be found in parts of our bodies like our hair and nails, and our skin.
Keratin is formed by cells called keratinocytes and is found mainly in the epidermis of our skin, and they will slowly make their way to the surface of the skin where they form a protective layer of dead skin cells which are slowly lost over time.
Keratin has some vital roles in maintaining the function of our skin. It produces some waterproofing qualities, for example. But the main function of keratin in our skin is to promote skin strength and elasticity.
Both of these are essential to skin health, but as we age our store of skin keratin reduces so the strength and elasticity of our skin reduces.
So it must be good to use skin care products that contain keratin to replace our skin\’s stores of keratin? No.
The reason is that the process used to produce the keratin found in mainstream skin care products is a process using heat and acid, and this \”denaturalizes\” the keratin into a form that is of no use to the skin.
Now what is functional keratin? It is a form of keratin that has been extracted using a different process other than heat and acid and so isn\’t denaturalized. It comes from the wool of sheep and is functional in the sense that it is still in a form that is of use to our skin.
Making functional keratin has been perfected only recently by one small company that has now patented the process, and this company has created a product called Cynergy TK that contains this functional keratin. Cynergy TK is now an primary ingredient in the worlds best skin care products.
Studies on the results that use of Cynergy TK can produce have been impressive with visible results within a short time, a reduction in wrinkles and fine lines and an improvement in the complexion.
Cynergy TK is very expensive, though the products using Cynergy TK are not highly priced for one particular reason.The big brand skin care products (which dont use Cynergy TK as its too expensive) spend up big on TV advertising, so have to load up the price of their products to pay for this.
The price of big brand skincare products has to reflect the cost of the advertising.
I hope that\’s enlightened you somewhat about what keratin is and what it does for the skin, and what functional keratin is.
Find out more about Cynergy TK at my website.
Want to know more about Functional Keratin or find products containing Cynergy TK? Visit Peter\’s Website Natural Health-Natural Skin Care.
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