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HOW IT STARTED Cosmetic companies bought into the organ's healing power decades ago, but few advertise its use
Cosmetic companies usually love to trumpet their "miracle" ingredients. But placenta--the embryonic tissue formed in pregnant mammals and used for decades as a wrinkle reducer--is one beautifier that has long been kept under wraps. That may be changing: Mila Skin Care's new Amber Cream Placental has become...
Dozens of cosmetic companies have informed the FDA of their use of human placenta, but most have been afraid to advertise it because consumers are squeamish about the substance as well as its source. Mila is supplied by Russian maternity wards, but Shiseido is very secretive about the placental extract...
“I doubt whether the committees made all that much difference,” said Trumbull Research Professor of History Donald H. Fleming. “Every dean can impose his will. If only for cosmetic purposes, the forms were gone through. It was a strategy in the...
A major risk is that cosmetic surgery doesn't always work. Injianni is inundated by grossly overweight patients with unrealistic expectations about liposuction: "They want us to do things that are just not possible." Within limits, cosmetic surgery can temporarily mask the ravages of age and bad habits. That's...