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Copper and Skin Care

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COLLOIDAL COPPER


Copper is critical for the appropriate functioning of almost all tissues in the human body. As much as 15% of its total body content is located in the skin where it takes part in multiple processes that are essential to its well-being. While it has been widely used in skincare in its primal form, studies show that colloidal copper is much more active and effective than its regular counterpart. How exactly is it beneficial to the skin?


Youthful skin structure owes to the components of its extracellular matrix, mainly collagen and elastin. With age, the number of their fibers gradually decreases and the appearance of wrinkles, fine lines, skin dullness and thinness become more visible. Moreover, the process is worsened by environmental free radicals which additionally destabilize the firm and elastic architecture of the skin. Colloidal copper can counteract that.


Colloidal copper, according to numerous studies, stimulates dermal fibroblasts, or the skin protein-producing cells, to up-regulate collagen and elastin production in the skin. It mainly does so by inducing TGF-β or Transforming Growth Factor, an essential stimulator of collagen and elastin fiber formation, but it also promotes the cross-linking of the synthesized fibers making the skin structure even firmer. Additionally, it is pivotal to the functioning of superoxide dismutase, a powerful antioxidant present in the skin, hence actively minimizes the free radical damage. Because of it, it is an extraordinarily effective anti-aging skincare ingredient. It recreates the youthful firmness, thickness and elasticity of the skin, simultaneously decreasing the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines. The skin is smooth and regains its glow and brightness.


Its presence in the body facilitates the absorption of iron. It is necessary to increase the formation of cross-links between collagen and elastin.

Essential to help maintain the elasticity of the skin and tissues.


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