Archive for February 2018
February 19th, 2018 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
The answer is “no” if you are talking about a serum with collagen. Only animals make collagen. The answer is “yes”, though, if you are talking about Skin Actives “let’s make collagen serum” (LMC serum), the original name of our collagen serum. LMC serum was too complicated, so its name was shortened. But the objective of our product was always the same: to promote collagen serum synthesis and to preserve the structure and function of existing skin collagen. And a vegan version of this serum is possible and we are making it. How? Collagen is an insoluble protein, so it can’t be used as such in a serum. What we…
February 18th, 2018 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
It is true that there is no legal rules about what skin care companies (or food, or anything) can call “natural”. But we all know what we call natural: a substance that has not been modified chemically to became something different from what it was before. But “natural” is one of those words that make us go soft and buy a product, so companies keep using it to make us buy something that it is not natural. Other words that make us go soft are: green, honest, pure, organic, etc. Beware when you see these words, they are used just to make us go soft and buy something that we…
February 14th, 2018 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
Microblading is a fancy name for permanent makeup of the eyebrow area. It is meant to be permanent and it is not hair, it is ink deposited deep inside your skin. Anybody older than 15 knows that make-up fashion changes every year, and even every season, influenced by a variety of factors including what the big makeup companies want to sell. New make-up styles will make redundant all the make up products people bought last season and that will be an infusion of cash for the industry. People older than 20 know that the price of plucking eyebrows is the eventual loss of eyebrows. I have seen women with the…