Properties: growth factor, healing; increases skin renewal; anti-age. This is the active in ReVive; EGF is also present in trace amounts in the growth medium used by Skin Medica for its products. Mix EGF and Canvas base cream for faster healing and skin renewal.

NOTE: This is one of our specialty proteins (see also superoxide dismutase) made by Skin Actives Scientific using biotechnology. Biotechnology is a short name for an array of sophisticated methods that allow us scientists to make large amounts of a single protein, almost pure and fully active protein at a fraction of the cost of extracting it from the plant.

Use: our Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) is very powerful. Remember that EGF is a "signal" and not a nutrient, so you need very little for it to work! You will hardly see the EGF at the bottom of the small tube. It is kept very concentrated to preserve its activity. Store in the refrigerator until you are ready to use it.

When ready to use, add the contents of the second tube (saline solution) to the tube containing EGF and close.

Mix by inverting and straightening the tube several times. The EGF is now ready for addition to the Canvas base cream. DO NOT BE TEMPTED to use it more concentrated than this. A growth factor is similar to a hormone: very little (it is measured in micrograms, one millionth of a gram) will go a very long way.

Further information: this small protein (only 53 amino acids) was found to enhance epidermal growth and keratinization. Work by Cohen and his collaborators demonstrated that EGF directly stimulated the proliferation of epidermal cells, and this stimulatory action of EGF did not depend on other systemic or hormonal influences. Cells that respond to EGF do so because they have receptors on the cell membrane that recognize the factor (which has been produced by cells that may be near or far from the target cell). The binding of the growth factor to the receptor initiates a cascade of molecular events that will eventually lead, among other effects, to cell division. Among the practical uses of EGF are its use in accelerating healing of skin and cornea.

Most of our items can be mixed together. Please let us know if you have questions regarding specific combinations.

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