"Instant Face Lift" Chemical DMAE Damages Skin Cells

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A chemical used in using cosmetic products promising an "instant face lift" makes wrinkles disappear by damaging skin cells, Canadian researchers report. "From our point of view the cells are altered. They stop dividing, they stop secreting, and after...24 hours a certain proportion of them die," Dr. Francois Marceau of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Quebec told Reuters Health.

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