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Anti Aging Cream Manufacturer Likewise Skincare Responds to an Article Concerning the Harmful Effects of Skin Lightening Products

Following an article published for Health.India.com reporting the dangers of skin lightening, a representative from Likewise Skin offers a response. Bohemia, NY (PRWEB) September 19, 2012 On Septembe...

Biotech Firm Pits Its Actives Against Leading Skin Lighteners On Market

Unlike skin-lightening ingredient arbutin, which releases potentially carcinogenic hydroquinone, Sirona Biochem Corp.’s TFC-849 and TFC-723 compounds are stable and do not break down in the body. Th...

Alteration of the oxygen-dependent reactivity of de novo Due Ferri proteins

Representing the first successful rational reprogramming of function in a de novo protein, the reactivity of a designed di-iron carboxylate protein from the Due Ferri family was altered from hydroquin...

Sirona Biochem's Cosmetic Skin Lighteners More Stable Than Leading Compound, According to New Study / Company's Compound Does Not Release Hydroquinone, a Major Concern of Currently Marketed Skin Lighteners

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/29/12 -- Sirona Biochem Corp. (TSX VENTURE: SBM) announced today its subsidiary, TFChem, demonstrated stability of its skin depigmenting agents for...

CIR Panel To Re-Review Cosmetic Preservative In Light Of New Allergy Data

CIR’s Expert Panel decided at its March 19 meeting to re-review preservative methyisothiazolinone, taking into account new allergy data, after the substance was named “Contact Allergen of the Year...

Pharmaceutical Research: Skin Permeation of Small-Molecule Drugs, Macromolecules, and Nanoparticles Mediated by a Fractional Carbon Dioxide Laser: The Role of Hair Follicles

Type: Original PaperPurposeTo evaluate skin permeation enhancement mediated by fractional laser for different permeants, including hydroquinone, imiquimod, fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled dextran (...

Sirona Biochem's Cosmetic Skin Lighteners More Stable Than Leading Compound, According to New Study

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/29/12 -- Sirona Biochem Corp. (TSX VENTURE: SBM) announced today its subsidiary, TFChem, demonstrated stability of its skin depigmenting agents for c...

Obagi Medical Products to Present at The Stifel Nicolaus Healthcare Conference

Obagi Medical Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMPI), a leader in topical aesthetic and therapeutic skin health systems, today announced that Albert Hummel, the Company’s President and C...

Probing structural transition and guest dynamics of hydroquinone clathrates by temperature-dependent terahertz time-domain spectroscopy.

The structural transition from hydroquinone clathrates to crystalline α-form hydroquinone was observed up to the range of 3 THz frequency as a function of temperatures. We found that all three hydroq...

Hydroquinone Therapy for Post-inflammatory Hyperpigmentation Secondary to Acne: Not Just Prescribable by Dermatologists.

Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation after acne can be as troublesome as the acne itself. Hydroquinone, a tyrosinase inhibitor, in a 4% cream can be used safely twice daily for up to 6 months to treat...

The influence of hydroquinone on tyrosinase kinetics.

In vitro studies, using combined spectrophotometry and oximetry together with hplc/ms examination of the products of tyrosinase action demonstrate that hydroquinone is not a primary substrate for the...

Reduction of Benzoquinones to Hydroquinones via Spontaneous Reaction with Glutathione and Enzymatic Reaction by S-Glutathionyl-Hydroquinone Reductases.

S-Glutathionyl-hydroquinone reductases (GS-HQRs) are a new class of glutathione transferases, widely present in bacteria, halobacteria, fungi, and plants. They catalyze glutathione (GSH)-dependent red...

Simultaneous electroanalytical determination of hydroquinone and catechol in the presence of resorcinol at an SiO(2)/C electrode spin-coated with a thin film of Nb(2)O(5).

This paper describes the development, characterization and application of an Nb(2)O(5) film formed on the surface of a carbon ceramic material, SiO(2)/C, obtained by a sol-gel method, using the spin-c...