Friday, October 7, 2016

QUESTIONABLE CLAIMS OF USE OF STEM CELLS FOR ANTI-AGING EFFECT

Increasing number of skincare brands in the market are touting the use of human stem cells for giving anti-aging effect.  No reputed brand is making such claims.  Most of them are using plant stem cells which is quite a different area altogether, because function of plant cells is not transferable to human skin.  How a plant functions in natural environment is completely unrelated to how human skin functions.

There are some brands which are using stem cell extracts which also is a different technique; such formulations are in fact based on growth factors. (Use of extract of stem cells is different from the use of human stem cells.)

Well known skincare physicians are advising consumers that there is no such bio-medical technology at present which could claim the anti-aging effect by the use of human stem cells. There are no safety and reliability tests carried out so far.

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