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Our Unique US-Registered “DownPoreŽ”
Technology
All our
Natural topical
products based on natural oils, herbal extracts and natural
biologically active ingredients are manufactured using
DownPoreŽ our US registered microencap-su-ation process that enhances
through-the-skin penetration of biological active ingredients through the
normal, dry, and mature skin. Today Nu Technology offers unique
100% Natural topical /Anti-Aging/Skin/Beauty/ Baby/Health
Care products in the form of water-soluble complex emulsion/suspension providing
penetration of microencapsulated biological active ingredients through
the skin without unwanted side effects on normal, sensitive, and
hypersensitive
skin.
Our US
registered DownPoreŽ technology is very
different from technology of other companies. It is very complex and requires
very expensive equipment and highly professional personal for strict control of
the following thermodynamic parameters of the process: concentrations of natural
surfactants and active ingredients, temperature, mixing speed, shear rate of
homogenization and other parameters. However, with its use we are able to
produce stable water-soluble products with more than a dozen of active
ingredients and only natural non-ionic surfactants, thickeners and
preservatives. Our technological process allows to produce stable (triple
emulsion)/suspension system (cream). The triple emulsion (Water/Oil/Water) is a
system in which water globules are dispersed in oil globules, the latter being
themselves dispersed in an aqueous phase. Solid part of suspension consists of
fine particles (size less micron) of microencapsulated sulfur, zinc oxide,
vitamins (C, A & E) and other. The whole system can be viewed as
three-dimensional network of complex structural elements of colloidal
dimensions. This network is responsible for quick penetration of active
ingredients through the skin barrier. Due to the formation of three-dimensional
network, active centers of active ingredients are not blocked and biological
activity of final products is high. In fact it can not be calculated by adding
up activity of each active ingredient, due to synergetic effect, each activity
is multiplied by one another.
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Most other companies in
US, Europe, and Asia, which manufacture natural topic products, use natural
ingredients in their products in combination with waxes, mineral oils, ionic
chemical surfactants, thickeners, polymeric gel- (or emulsion) formation agents.
Their products are also in the form of water-soluble emulsion system, but in
their system emulsion is not created by separate elements, three-dimensional
network is created by polymeric emulsion-forming agents in which active
ingredients are dispersed. The technology with use of polymers is simple and
inexpensive, but the products produced by it have low biological activity, since
polymeric network block skin pores as well as active centers of active
ingredients (J.Grossiord and M.Seiller, Eds., Multiphase Emulsions.
Structure. Properties and Application, Ed. seSante, Paris, 1998). Also
chemical ingredients in the products cause unwanted side effects.
We believe that
DownPoreŽ technology is unique and right now
has no competition on the world's market.
To understand the specific
properties of the new technology based on natural substances please compare
our technology
with the technology based on chemical substances.
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Technology
Based On Chemical Substance
Today,
most manufacturers of beauty and medicinal products for topical application
claim that their products are based on natural active ingredients and,
therefore, have biological activity. In reality, these products have low
biological activity since they contain waxes, mineral oils, ionic chemical
surfactants, preservatives, thickeners, polymeric gel-(or emulsion) formation
and other polymeric materials. These materials actually block pores on the skin
and block active centers of natural active ingredients, thereby significantly
lowering the effectiveness of the natural active ingredients in the products.
Why do companies do this? The reasons are: (i) chemical substances are
inexpensive and (ii) technology of manufacturing these products is simple (H.E.
Junginger “Multiphase Emulsion in Surfactants in Cosmetics, Vol.68,
Marcel Dekker, 1997). However, many chemical substances cause adverse
side effects.
Furthermore, the technology used to manufacture these chemical substances is
inexpensive and can be realized easily because it does not require strong
control of thermodynamic parameters to produce stable products.
Technology Based On Natural Substances
To increase biological activities, the natural
products manufactured by Nu Technology has complex structural elements of
colloidal dimensions that form a three-dimensional network within the system.
They are responsible for the products’ dermatological properties such as feel,
spread ability, penetration through skin, cooling/warming effects, and their
possible interactions with skin lipids. This formation during the manufacturing
process requires special control of temperature, mixing speed, and shear rates.
Nu Technology has developed a new technology which allows us to produce
water-soluble products in form of a triple emulsion/suspension system.
The
triple emulsion (i.e. Water-1/Oil/Water-2
or W-1/O/W-2
emulsion) is the
aqueous dispersed phase (Water -1 or
W-1) with oil (Oil
or O) globules in which the
water globules (Water-2 or
W-2) are dispersed. The solid part of the natural products consists
of fine particles (size less 0.1 micron) of microencapsulated Sulfur ● Zinc
Oxide ● Titanium Dioxide ● etc.
All natural products are based on the natural substances
(such as natural non-ionic surfactants, natural preservatives, natural
thickeners, natural unsaturated oils, and etc.) that have been manufactured
using DownPoreŽ US registered technology. The
stable water-soluble triple emulsion/suspension system using this technology can
be made in 4-steps. Each technological step of a process for production stable
triple emulsion/suspension (shelf-life of 5 or more years) can be realized only
for a narrow range of
thermodynamic parameters (such as active ingredients’ and
surfactants’ concentrations, temperature, shear rate of homogenization and rate
of temperature reduction, and etc.). Therefore, manufacturing of the product
requires accurate control of all thermodynamic parameters during the whole
process.
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