Slow Sun Damage and The Aging Process.

Quantum's New Water Garden Pycnogenol^TM Skin Lotion And Wrinkle Cream.

Eugene, Or, March 2000:
Starting today you can do something positive to return tone and radiance to your skin. Turn back the years with the brilliance of Quantum, Inc.'s Water Garden Pycnogenol Skin Lotion with SPF 8 and Water Garden Pycnogenol Wrinkle Cream. Those fine lines and wrinkles suddenly begin to disappear. The damage you thought was forever is gone. This super anti-oxidant formula gives dramatic results in only weeks and it helps supplement skin's own defenses.

With great scientific concern about the thinning of our planet's protective ozone layer and the possibility that our skin cancer rate will dramatically increase, research on Pycnogenol has gained a lot of attention in both scientific and general press. Pycnogenol, a distinctive, naturally occurring, high concentrated complex of antioxidant flavonoids, extracted from the bark of the French maritime pine, has been found to have several outstanding health benefits. Among the benefits, are the findings of how Pycnogenol, protects against ultraviolet radiation on our skin, reducing, and in many instances reversing damage.

How does this potent antioxidant provide such a benefit? Damaged DNA from the suns harmful rays diminishes the capability for genes and cells to communicate properly, to fight the aging process. Our skin loses elasticity, changing in appearance and texture, decreasing its resilience, causing skin to sag. (According to the recent studies of Dr. Lester Packer, Professor of Physiology at the University of California Berkeley, Pycnogenol extends the lifetime of Vitamin C in the body, prolonging its beneficial effects as an antioxidant.)

As an internal antioxidant, Pycnogenol is shown to retard the progression of the disease process or reduce the risk of developing disease. Topically, studies show that Pycnogenol makes our cells work better by sending healthy signals of rejuvenation.

"I believe it helps protect against UV damage on anything it touches like a natural Sunblock." states Dr. Markus Laux. "Pycnogenol helps your own body regulate gene expression. Cell to cell communication provides healthy cells. If the right gene message is communicated, in many cases you will see the slowing and reversal of skin damage."

One of the effects of aging that concerns many people is the change in skin texture and appearance. It causes the skin to become thinner and more transparent as the subcutaneous layer loses fat, causing skin to sag as elastin skin fibers lose their resilience. Collagen, the primary component of the skin interlaces with a fine net of elastin giving skin its strength, elasticity and smoothness. Pycnogenol binds to collagen fibers and realigns them to a more youthful, undamaged form.

Besides the protection provided when Pycnogenol binds to collagen and elastin, it provides additional protection to skin with its free-radical quenching ability. "Every day pollutants such as UVA and UVB rays from the sun are free-radical. When free-radicals weld molecules of the skin protein collagen together, the skin looses its elasticity and smoothness, becoming stiff and wrinkled." states Richard Passwater, Ph.D. (The Superantioxidant-Plus by Richard A. Passwater, Ph.D.) Healthy skin needs to be protected against damaging ultraviolet radiation from the sun. Over exposure to sunlight causes premature wrinkling. Dr. Passwater acknowledges that "Pycnogenol makes an excellent external and internal "sunscreen" with years of research behind it.

Water Garden, Pycnogenol Skin Lotion with SPF 8 & Pycnogenol Wrinkle Cream protect the proteins, (collagen and elastin), which improve the elasticity and appearance of your skin. The lotion penetrates deep beneath the skin's surface to soothe, nourish and protect your skin from harmful UV rays, making even the roughest, driest skin feel and look more youthful.

Water Garden's more concentrated Pycnogenol Wrinkle Cream reduces the appearance of wrinkles around the eyes, face and throat, providing more dramatic results.

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