What is keratin? What is functional keratin?

If you are interested in researching a little about skin care and skin health it won’t be long before you start to read about the role of keratin in maintaining your skin’s health. But what is keratin?

Keratin is found right throughout our bodies. It is a protein that is extremely strong and it can be found in the hard areas of our bodies like our nails and also in the softer areas of our bodies, like skin. A lot of keratin is found in our nails, teeth, hair and skin.

In our skin keratin is produced by keratinocytes, a type of skin cell in the epidermis, and this keratin has a role in keeping our skin in good health. As keratin cells come to the surface they die, and form a protective layer on the surface. And these dead cells are shed all the time as dead skin cells.

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 these are important for optimal skin health, and as our skin ages it starts to lose some of it’s ability to maintain it’s strength and elasticity and this is due in part to a reduction in keratin.

So you would be accurate in assuming that if you use skin care products with keratin in them you are restoring your stores of skin keratin and thereby improving your skin strength and elasticity right? Wrong.

You see the keratin that is used in mainstream skin care products is extracted from the horns and hooves of animals and is extracted using acid and heat. This results in the keratin being “denaturalized” by a process called hydrolization. Denaturalized simply means that it’s no longer of use to your skin because it’s form has been changed.

Enter functional keratin. This is keratin that is extracted from the wool of sheep without using heat or acid, and so it is not “denaturalized”. It is “functional” in the sense that it is still in a form that is available for the skin to use.

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. Read the rest of this entry

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There’s been some buzz about Cynergy TK lately, so here’s some more information about it.

People are starting to realize that there’s a new kid on the skin care and anti aging block. It’s called Cynergy TK. It’s one of the major breakthroughs in anti aging products in our time, and it’s a major part of every single skin care product in the Xtend Life skin care range, the best natural skin care products in the world, and the best skincare products period.

Cynergy TK is basically a way of adding keratin to your skin that works. There are other ways of adding keratin, they don’t work very well.

Keratin is an essential compound in your skin. It is a fibrous protein that promotes elasticity in your skin and helps hold your skin firmly together, and is one of the most important factors in skin aging and the formation of skin wrinkles.

The loss of keratin with aging is one of the major causes of skin aging and sagging.

And Cynergy TK is a way of adding keratin back into your skin, successfully.

Now of course there are other products that contain keratin. However they have a problem. Because keratin is present in such body parts as nails and skin and hair, the keratin used in mainstream brand  name products is sourced from the horns, hooves and feathers of animals and birds. It is extracted using heat, and the effects of this heating is to change the form of the keratin by a process called hydrolyzation.

Cynergy TK  is a “functional keratin”. In other words a keratin source that works in your skin. It is sourced from the wool of New Zealand sheep, and is not extracted by heat. It has been patented and is almost identical to the makeup of the keratin found in our skin.

So what does Cynergy TK do for your skin?

By promoting elasticity in the skin it reduces fine lines and wrinkles and promotes firmness of the skin, all things that degrade with age. And it improves the overall look of your skin, making you look healthier overall.

And it promotes the regrowth of collagen and elastin in the skin, both extremely important to skin health and skin “youth”.

It has been described as a “liquid skin”.

Xtend Life put Cynergy TK into all their skin care products, it’s so important. And that’s why they can offer a money back guarantee. You can try their products with Cynergy TK for 90 days, and if you don’t like them you can get your money back. You can’t complain about that, what other mainstream skin care product manufacturer would let you do that? Read the rest of this entry

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