Have you tried a golden collagen facial mask? I tried one by Christian Valmy and it was quite an experience. It was kind of Jell-O-like, shaped like a mask with the human face, and it looked like it was made of gold. The thing arrived in a plastic shell for safekeeping. As soon as I got it in the mail, I unpacked it as soon as I could, read the instructions, and draped it over my face. It felt really cool, and really ticklishly jelly-like. I expected to come out of the experience feeling 10 years younger; instead, ingredients in it like arbutin, made me break out all over.
It's just that I have really sensitive skin, one needs to be prepared for anything like this when you use any new preparation if one has sensitive skin. Gold today, is the magic ingredient that cosmetics makers and users look for. They put gold powder and gold flakes in moisturizers, eye creams, what have you. The really expensive spas will offer you a $100 facial mask of 24 karat gold, and high-end retail outlets sell gold makeup stuff.
These things are pretty pricey; Chantecaille, a popular brand (among people who can afford this kind of thing) for instance, makes a night energizing cream that goes for about $400 for a 2 ounce bottle. People are pretty curious now about what gold can do for them, and cosmetics counters across the country do their best to spread the word. Still, there are several potential customers who wonder if this could be just a meaningless fad.
Yet, companies that manufacture cosmetic products like a gold facial mask or a gold cream, have a list of potential benefits, and it's a long one. Bits of gold in your cream are claimed to warm your skin up, and improve circulation around your face. The products that contain microscopic molecules of gold (as opposed to flakes), claim that anything that is not microscopic is never going to be absorbed by the skin. If gold does indeed do anything for us, I'd probably go with the microscopic particles, over the larger ones.
So what do the doctors say about all of this? Dermatologists seem fairly certain the gold in your creams and potions can never do anything for you; and to certain kinds of skin, gold can be toxic, and can cause breakouts like it did for me. All the dermatologists can say is, that they'd like to see just one study done that proves the benefits of gold on the skin. So far, there have been no truly scientific studies dne that prove any of the claims made for gold - tighter skin, youthful appearance and so on. If your skin doesn't happen to agree with gold though, you'll know right away by all the itching.
But gold isn't really that exciting, if you are absolutely made of money. For those among you who see life this way, a platinum cream by La Prairie can set you back $1000. If you can't pony up that kind of cash, remember, there are lots of reputable companies that sell gold dreams without costing you an arm and leg. A facial mask by Christine Valmy for instance, costs only $15. The science that the cosmetics companies claim to back up their use of gold says that when you put on a facial mask with gold in it, thegold particles that come in contact with your skin turn your circulation up, and in general, get you feeling younger.
Your final proof lies in what the FDA thinks about it; the FDA rejects this out of hand. To the FDA, gold has nothing to do with the way your skin looks.
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