New technology measures and predicts the future wrinkling of the skin
The ultimate in facial care creams are not the only technology able to calculate how many hours can a sun without burning, to represent wrinkles in a chart or predict the chances of skin cancer.
This technology could come from pearls to those who suspect nothing short of miraculous abilities cosmetics that promise, because with it you can prove scientifically whether they work or not.
Clarity Pro, named the product in question, lets you know what percentage of the facial skin has wrinkles, is affected by exposure to the sun too long or bacteria, resulting in inflamed pores.
Manufactured by a small company in San Jose (Silicon Valley in California) called Brightex, the software provides this information as charts that allow you to quickly view the status of the skin.
The product can also calculate how many hours of sunshine can be taken in the future depending on the type and condition of the skin.
This makes it a valuable tool for physicians and aestheticians, who may recommend products or surgical procedures with more informed choices and also show patients before and after treatments.
Clarity Pro will be released next month and, according to News.com site specializing in technology, is intended for beauty salons, cosmetic manufacturers, researchers and dermatologists.
Upon completion of the patent process next year, technology will also be able to predict the likelihood that the person suffers from skin cancer due to sun exposure in the past.
This is the latest chapter in the convergence between technology and dermatology.
Both fields are increasingly being delivered more aid each other, as evidenced by a growing number of cosmetics manufacturers to strive to adopt technologies from Silicon Valley to bring the sophisticated toilet creams.
From tiny mineral spheres are designed to penetrate the skin to muscle relaxants, cosmetics companies like Estee Lauder, Freeze 24 / 7 or Procter & Gamble (maker of Olay) does not skimp on research in search of the coveted formula to get beat the clock .
Among the new areas that until recently had nothing to do with the toilet is that of nanotechnology, the science that studies the behavior of the very small.
They are manipulating the microscopic to achieve an industry giant, which last year moved 10,000 million U.S. dollars and growing at a rate of 6 percent annually.
In an attempt to get the magic potion killed quite a few ideas that once were considered bright, like that of the microneedles that penetrate the skin to facilitate the passage of substances.
These microneedles seemed ideal until it was discovered that unwanted components such as preservatives, irritants and microbes could also penetrate the skin with rejuvenating ingredients.
The microneedles have been replaced by tiny spheres of material protein enzymes that dissolve the skin, or muscle relaxants made from an ingredient that contains anti-anxiety pills.
The industry strives to prove with these and other refined sugar mills, but for consumers there is no guarantee of the effectiveness of these technologies.
The problem is that the creams are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which means that the government supports its effectiveness.
Moreover, in most cases the treatments are very new as to have stood the test of time, and this is compounded by the inherent ambiguity of the remedies that promise to curb the “evil” of old age.
Issues that could be overtaken by technologies such as Pro Clarity, as the tons of publicity about the benefits of the product should be accompanied by computer images showing that the product was used for something.