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How does the SkinClean system work?
 
SkinClean is a remarkable formula.  The SkinClean system works using an advanced concept of physical chemistry known as colloidal science.  We describe some of the interesting origin of colloidal chemistry, as background  information, elsewhere on this page.

We are a respected skin science research laboratory, which began original work in the science of skin chemistry over 25 years ago.  We have had remarkable success in breakthough technology, which has been the pacesetter and inspiration for skin science studies all over the world.  Our formulations and products, based on our technologies, have been used by millions of people in every country, and have appeared under various brand names in the finest  stores, such as Neiman Marcus, and Saks Fifth Avenue, and many others.

When the SkinClean Laboratory came up with its' most remarkable breakthrough about two years ago, we made the decision to offer this newest system directly to users,  not through any other company, but under our own SkinClean name.   So, what we provide to you, are the latest, most advanced formulations , which we designate as the SkinClean system.  SkinClean works, not by attacking the skin, the way other approaches do, but by using a remarkable complex, developed and proven in the SkinClean laboratory through thousands of clinical trials and evaluations.  This system causes toxins, and the byproducts of cellular metabolism to be rapidly removed, so that the skin is brought into a healthy state.

You may have read some of our promotional comments, and thought it was just advertising jargon.  But, SkinClean truly works rapidly in a fashion to cause the skin to be brought into a state which enables the dynamic, normal bodily processes to heal and restore. New cells are being generated all the time; as those new cells make their way to the top layer, (the stratum corneum) they replace the previous ones.  In that process they breakdown, creating toxins and cellular exudates, which create a breeding ground for infection.  SkinClean causes damaged and exhausted cells to be eliminated, and it enables the new cells to be cleansed of contaminants produced by the body normally, as well as those introduced into your skin by other means.  You may not have the inclination to read this whole explanation, so stated most simply:  SkinClean works by utilizing an amazing organic colloidal system, which works in a sympathetic relationship with a specially developed combination of mono-molecular surfactants.  These two complexes work in conjunction with a remarkable gentle organic abradant complex,  to create a three factored system, which removes the exhausted cellular exudates, by-products of cellular metabolism, and sebaceous fluids, and thereby eliminate the environment, which harbors bacterial invaders and toxins, and  it restores skin to a healthy state.   Best of all,  it truly works, and has provided nothing short of miracles for thousands and thousands of problem skin sufferers of all ages

 
Cells break down to create a dangerous environment
Healthy skin is deeply cleaned skin.  This is not a hard premise to understand.  Bacteria is the cause of inflammation. Bacteria must have a suitable living environment in order to survive.  We want to make that environment unsuitable for bacteria and toxins. The outer layer of skin is our primary concern, the stratum corneum. A skin cell begins its life in the basal cell layer where new cells are born. Here amino acids, fatty acids and other vital substances provided by the blood are transformed into new skin cells. These cells gradually move up to the stratum corneum in a 28-day cycle.  At this point cells are merely exhausted versions of their vital selves.  Cells in the stratum corneum go through a cycle of destruction and as such are an environment for cellular exudates like tenacious sebaceous fluids, broken down cell components, and waste products from the normal cell metabolism, and impinged dirt, a dangerous combination of microscopic offenders.

SkinClean utilizes a unique colloidal mechanism which envelops the microscopic offenders, as well as other elements which block normal elimination, and allows them to be removed from the skin.  Our colloidal complex is an organic microweb which is created from the plant cellular matter.

What are the skin contaminants? By products of cellular metabolism (metabolites).  Impinged dirt.  Exhausted cells, sebaceous exudate. These represent a toxic system to the skin, because it creates an environment where not only bacteria reside, but flourish, and an environment which blocks the normal elimination of those offending substances.

Colloidal Chemistry is a powerful mechanism
The effect of colloids is explainable in part by micro-electric action (like static electricity, which everyone has seen) as strange as that seems. Sick and dead and broken-down cells, the toxins, and impinged micro dirt are attracted to the colloidal system by (as hard as this is to understand) electro-magnetic force, as iron filings are attracted to a magnet. The colloids carry those decayed or poisonous substances into the SkinClean surfactant system, working in response to and in conjunction with our gentle organic abradants, and they are eliminated.

A simple illustration will suggest the immense powers that are being unsealed. Suppose we have a cube of iron measuring an inch on each edge. The total surface would be six square inches. A minuscule electrical charge resides on the surface of any substance; therefore, the greater the surface the greater the total charge; and if we divide the cube of iron into smaller pieces we increase the surface areas and thereby what would have been an insignificant tiny charge can become quite significant. By colloidal chemistry that iron cube can be divided into particles so minute that they are invisible, hence instead of six square inches of surface emanating electric energy, we have something like 127 acres.

Colloidal chemistry was pioneered by Thomas Graham, a British chemist, over 100 years ago, but only recently has it been realized by scientists what an enormous influence it is destined to have in medicine, agriculture and industry.  One of the world's greatest scholars said recently. "There is, as I see it just one great development left for our time. That is in the understanding and application of colloidal chemistry. " SkinClean has utilized colloidal chemistry in a unique way to enable cleaner, healthier skin.

 

Colloidal Chemistry

The discovery that cells are made of protoplasm, a finding of critical importance to cell physiology, was promptly seized upon and pursued with vigor and insight, not by a cell physiologist, but by Thomas Graham (1805-1869), a chemist. Graham was at the time Master of the Mint of England, an office once held by Isaac Newton toward the end of the 17th century.

Colloid, the name-sake of gelatin—and  cogent model for protoplasm

Thomas Graham spent most of his life investigating the phenomenon of diffusion. He noted that substances like starch, gum and gelatin diffuse slowly and that they do not form crystals. Graham wrote in 1861: "As gelatine appears to be its type, it is proposed to designate substances of the class as colloids, and to speak of their peculiar form of aggregation as the colloidal condition of matter."

In naming the class of slow-diffusing substances colloids, Graham pointed out that "the plastic elements of the animal body are found in this class." By plastic elements he could only be referring to the soft tissues (in contrast to rigid elements like bones, horns, shells). These soft tissues are, according to Felix Dujardin, Hugo von Mohl, Max Schultze and others, made of protoplasm—even though Graham did not use this word.

However, by introducing colloid chemistry, Graham not only opened the door to investigating protoplasm from a chemical point of view, he also gave impetus to the deeper understanding of cell membranes. Thus Graham also invented dialysis, using colloid-"sized" (stiffened) membranes for separating colloids from water, and from substances readily dissolved in water, including salts and sugars. Unlike colloids, salts and sugars diffuse much faster and do form crystals. For them, Graham gave the collective name, crystalloids.

 In 1857, Michael Faraday introduced to the Royal Society a substance he called colloidal gold. (Interestingly enough, four years before Graham was to introduce the new word, colloid.  Faraday showed that colloidal gold solutions are (like all other normal solutions) totally transparent "when a light is looked at through the fluid." However, "if a cone of sun's rays be thrown by a lens into the fluid, the illumination of the particles within the cone shows their presence as undissolved bodies."  This phenomenon is known as the Tyndall phenomenon, on the basis of which, an optical instrument called the ultramicroscope was constructed. The ultramicroscope enables one to see otherwise invisibly small colloidal particles.

Martin Fischer, who made important contributions to cell physiology, defined colloids in these words: "colloid systems result whenever one material is divided into a second with a degree of division coarser than molecular." Ross Gortner, whose important work will also be presented below, offered a modification: "colloidal systems result where one material is divided into a second with a degree of subdivisions either (a) coarser than molecular or (b) where the micelles exceed 1-1.5 millimicra (10-15 ?) in diameter." Gortner further pointed out that an ul­tramicroscope makes visible colloid particles from 10 ? to 1000 ? in diameter. Wolfgang Ostwald set the limits of colloids between 10 ? and 10,000 ?.  But another definition given by H. Staudinger poses a special problem.

Staudinger believed that only molecules larger than 1250 A can be considered true colloids (or eucolloids).  He also regarded colloids and macromolecules as synonymous. However, he was also the author of the macromolecular hypothesis, in which macromolecules are long chains of repeating units or monomers joined end-to-end by covalent bonds.

Yet well-known colloids like Faraday's colloidal gold, and Traube's copper ferrocyanide gel, are not macromolecules but big aggregates of smaller units. They are definitely not small units joined together by covalent bonds. Thus notwithstanding the wide practice to equate the two, colloids and macromolecules are not the same. .

By inventing colloid chemistry, Graham has brought together two substances outstanding in the history of cellular and subcellular physiology. They are copper ferrocyanide and gelatin. We already know how copper-ferrocyanide had launched the membrane theory.  Later colloid chemists discovered more and more intimate relationships between gelatin and protoplasm. However,  the time to construct a (plausible) theoretical explanation for this intimate relationship was not to come until much later.