Our Honey in Limited Supply is Now Available – While Supply Lasts

100% Pure, U.S. Grade A Honey. Made by Carniolan Honey Bees at 7,000 foot elevation in the Uintah Mountains of Eastern Utah. Packaged by Cougar Ridge Ranch, sold by Kauai Girl Soap.

Our U.S. Grade A, High Altitude, 100% Pure Raw Honey is now available to the public in a very limited supply.

Okay, so we’ve always kept it quiet because we only have a limited supply and family and friends always snatch it up but,,,

This year was a good year for honey production and we have extra so by popular demand we’ve added it to our web-store so you can get some and see why it is so loved.

We always thought it was thick, but when our family and friends began telling us the same thing “this is the thickest honey we’ve ever had”, we had to agree with them.

Really folks, this stuff is so thick it hardly wants to come out of the bottle. In fact, if your house is a bit cool, you’ll have to warm it up or use a knife to scoop it out. Typically, if it’s not 80 degrees in the house we have to warm the honey up just to get it to flow out of the squeeze bottle.

And the taste, it is so smooth, deep and delicious… you’ll wish you’d have gotten a few more bottles while they were available.

So get them while they’re available.

Click here to buy: Honey

Click here to read about our Honey: Cougar Ridge Ranch, Apiary

Why I Closed My Etsy Shop

Sorry We're Closed SignFrom the day we decided to sell our products outside of giving them as gifts to family and friends we’ve had our own KauaiGirlSoap.com website right here. It’s a great website, it’s easy to maintain and it produces. And three of the best reasons are; we don’t get charged per listing, we don’t get charged a commission for sales and we’re in total control of everything on it.

But as a business owner, we’re always looking for MORE!!

Looking for More

Business owners are always looking for more sales which means more customers and more time spent making the products your customers desire.

Actually there comes a point where as a small and literally “mom and pop shop” you can only make enough products to go around so far. We couldn’t advertise with talk radio as 1- we couldn’t afford it and 2- we couldn’t keep up with the demand and we’d have upset customers. Nevertheless, we were not only prepared to kick it up a little more, but we were encouraged by the feedback of our family, friends and current customers encouraging us to expand and get our stuff, products that they love, into the hands of others. Word of mouth is great and serves us well, Social Media is tricky and Google is always changing. So, looking for more ways to get our wonderful products into the hands of new people we began looking and reaching out.

The Recommendation was Etsy

When we first started our Quest, Etsy was the word on the street. Etsy was everything and a bag of cookies for anyone with a quality handmade in the U.S.A. product.

Okay so Etsy was touted by family, friends, customers and fellow handmade sellers to be the End-All, Be-All place to sell handmade products. We did some research and saw people making $4,000 a week or more and that caught our attention.

Etsy had just completed is first $4M year in sales so it was to say the least, interesting to look at.

Yes, we have bought a ton of stuff from Etsy Handmade Shops and I it really looked like the perfect second home for our little handmade bath and cosmetic products business.

It was simple enough, albeit there were MORE FEES to contend with, and we had to either raise our already low prices or bite the bullet and absorb the additional Etsy fees over our own website.

We thought that Etsy would give us a greater exposure to the crowd buying handmade products…

So we opened an Etsy shop and started listing products.

Pay to Play

Once we were up and rolling, we learned that for MORE money we could promote our listings.
That sounded great. We could BUY our way onto people’s screens.

So what did we do?
We took our Google Ad Words budget and spent the money with Etsy and promoted our listings there.

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

We started our adventure putting products on our Etsy Shop. Then we read all of the Help and How To articles we could find. We watched YouTube Videos and talked to anyone with Etsy experience we could find. We’re not in those circles so finding Etsy successes was sparse. We did find a ton of people who were Etsy shoppers though and they all had ideas for us.

We learned how to use all of the space available for each product title and description. We learned how to dress up our descriptions. We learned about Etsy SEO Key Words. We already knew how to photograph and edit the pictures to make them look identical to our products as Brad used to run a multi-million dollar web shop doing that very thing for customers.

We worked long and hard to make everything perfect and follow in the tracks of successful Etsy sellers.

And what did we see?

We saw tons and tons of Favoriting on our products but we didn’t see an upswing in sales.

We believed that people were probably just favoriting our products to save them and then BUY them later.

We saw a trickle of sales but nothing exploded in comparison with the explosion of numbers favoriting our products.

We literally had THOUSANDS of favorites on our products but the only shop making money for our products was ETSY.

If each of the favorites were a sale, we would have been doing thousands per week in sales.

You’ve Got to Spend Money, to Make Money

We were spending up to 30x more than we were making in our Etsy shop, month after month after month.

Sure, it’s all a tax right off but we got into this business to SELL our products, not just pay to have them listed. We didn’t even mind that selling on Etsy was costly as Etsy charges you for the listings of each item and each auto-renewal and you want to auto-renew so that your products are always available for sale!! Etsy then charges you all of the credit card fees on each sale AND Etsy takes a commission for each sale. All in all, you don’t get it all, Etsy always gets their share.

Etsy wins at every turn and you only win if Etsy’s website provides sales.

So What’s Happening With Etsy?

When Etsy first came on the scene, their focus was on making their associates (shop owners, you and I) successful. After-all, if the sellers were making money, Etsy was making MORE money. Their focus was on “Handmade” items which made it an outlet for hard to get, personally handmade crafts. The concept was right on… as long as Etsy stuck to THAT concept.

Oh there’s a ton of speculation on what is happening on Etsy now but I can sum it up for you in one word. Take your one word choice from these two, or choose them both: MONEY or GREED.

It May Take 4 Months!

Some people said; It will probably take 4 months before you start seeing sales.

Well, now more than two years in and we’re not seeing the sales, but we really see the favorites. The problem is you can’t eat “Atta-Girls”, you need sales.

Some say; “It’s your pricing!

You need to get your pricing down!”
I would reply; Our products are handmade, with love and personal care and we can’t complete with commercial products. In fact HANDMADE never competes with commercial. It’s way better and worth way more because of it.

However, I’m never one to say something is WRONG if I don’t know it for sure so, to test the theory that our prices were too high (and they weren’t) we lowered our prices.

Did that result in a change?

After all everyone who had favorited our items would be notified immediately by Etsy’s system of the change in prices, BUT

No Change.

No upswing in sales. In fact our sales still remained at less than 5 sales per month.

So what did we do?

We adjusted our pricing to the BARE BONES.
WE CUT our profit to pennies. Way lower than our prices at craft fairs and our own website.

Did that make a change?

NOPE! Sales stayed the same.

So again, what did we do?

For ONE we continued to PAY ETSY for listings, commissions and promotions. PLUS we offered FREE GIFTS with every order, gave many of our products FREE SHIPPING and we continued to pay Etsy and pay Etsy and pay Etsy.

Did that make a change in our sales numbers?

You’ve got it…. NOPE!

It’s like a gambling addiction and the house ETSY always wins.

Was our Etsy SEO Working?

Yes, and the way to know if your Etsy SEO is working is that people are Buying or Favoriting your items. If you’re getting in front of people and they take some type of action on your item, your SEO is working. They searched for something and saw you… and took some sort of action,,, Favorite or Buy… That’s successful SEO.

Oh, yes. Up to the day we closed our shop, we were still getting an average of up to 10 new Favorites on our products everyday, seven days a week and our overall favoriting numbers continued to climb, but our sales…
Our Sales Remained BLEAK.

Yes, logically you would expect that when people Favorite one of your items, some will come back and buy.

We Did Even More Research

Okay, so I began searching for our products on Etsy to see if our products showed up. After-all, we were paying Etsy SEO to get high placement on searches.

When we didn’t see our products, we looked at the products we were shown and guess what we found.

First, we were shocked when found people selling products, like ours, for less than 1/2 what it cost us in just ingredients with no labor and we buy our supplies in bulk and get better prices than most soapers.

The next thing we found was that many products like ours, were priced even HIGHER than ours and which looked rougher (and I might even add crude looking). And worse, we saw information on those items like; 23 people have this in their cart…. Wait!

WHAT?

We’re paying for top SEO and we’re not there and the one’s that are are more expensive, less appealing and are showing that 23 people have this product in their shopping carts.

I could see if the products were LESS in cost, but we’re seeing a huge number of successful sellers, with products in many peoples shopping carts at HIGHER prices than our products… What Gives? I thought.

In a moment I’ll show you how the Etsy FIX IS IN and why we got out.

Armchair Quarterbacks

It’s humorous to me that so many people that we know and talk with have suggestions for us which all require that we KEEP PAYING ETSY but every one of these advice toting Confucius wannabe’s are Etsy Shoppers and don’t really have a booming Etsy business, so why should I believe what they tell me? I opted to do my own research and find out, if I could, what was happening in the Etsy Universe that kept our planet on the dark side of the moon.

Being Positive is one thing,
but just because someone says it’s “so”,
does not make it “so”.

Our world today is filled with people and politicians who believe that they are just exploding with wisdom. They believe that just because they say it’s “so”,,, makes it “so”. Try telling the police officer who pulled you over for running a red light that the light wasn’t red at all, but GREEN and see what the officer says!!! I’ll tell you what the officer will say; “This is not an admission of guilt, just a promise to appear. Sign Here. Press Hard, three copies”

Yes, I do believe in the power of positive thinking and affirmations, but those are for one’s personal self betterment. Telling me that, you’re being positive and you’re having affirmations for my business, does not change the fact that people are clicking the LIKE button and not the BUY button.

So WHAT has happened to ETSY?

Something changed at Etsy that has a lot of shop owners, like me, shuttering their Etsy doors. Many people started with Etsy and saw BOOMING businesses only to see the boom quickly fade and taper off or die completely.

I’ve always had the suspicion that one of the big changes that Etsy made along the way, was that they became; All About The Money and not about their customer…. the seller, and my research has confirmed my suspicions.

As a side note, Ebay and Paypal have also gone the same direction. It’s all about the money.

Note on Paypal

Paypal used to guarantee every purchase. If you weren’t happy they’d refund your money and they would deal with the seller. If you didn’t get what you ordered but something slightly different (bait and switch) Paypal would refund your money and they would deal with the seller.

Now it’s not so. Paypay does NOT guarantee your purchases like they used to. In fact I just bought some clothing from a seller in China to give as Christmas Gifts. I ordered the items 2 months before Christmas and they showed up 1 week after I started a refund request. They showed up on Christmas Eve and worse, they were so seriously flawed that they are un-wearable, let alone gift-able.
So what happened??? Paypal said that because I got the items, their guarantee would not cover anything else… WHAT?

Word to all you who use Paypal…. Use it for the convenience not the guarantee from which they built their business.

They make their money from the sellers, not you the buyer.
They consider You, expendable.
They consider the seller, their cash cow.

Why do I talk about my Paypal experience?

For these companies, Etsy, eBay, Paypal and I’m sure there are more I don’t know about yet… for these companies, its all about getting and keeping the SELLERS who are making them money.

Etsy takes it one further, they need all of the sellers, but they only seriously protect and cater to the ones who they deem worthy of their focus to make sales. If you have the products that they deem worthy, they’ll promote you and make you successful. If you’re a second comer or don’t have the flash products that they think will really sell… you get the cheap seats in positioning.

For Etsy and Ebay then, it’s all about the listings. That is their primary money maker and they consider the profit from their commission on sales as the Cream of the Sale. The renewals of the listings are a constant “Cha-Ching” for Etsy and Ebay. So what did ETSY do that caused all of us little shops so much grief and hardship?

They allowed foreign sellers in, most of whom are not selling HANDMADE items AT ALL. It’s pretty obvious that many of the items on Etsy today are NOT HANDMADE anymore, yet “Handmade” is Etsy’s mantra!

Oh, to fix that, Etsy has created the ability for you as an “Etsy Seller” to “Partner” with a manufacturer,,, yeah, right! You can now Partner with a Commercial Manufacturer and sell it on a “Handmade” site!

The Definition of Insanity

It’s all about the number of listings that renew over and over again to the house (Etsy). I began realizing that I’m the idiot here. I’m the one described in the “Definition of Insanity” (which is; Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result). Renewal after renewal, favorite after favorite, and little to no sales. And Me hoping that in all of the money spent, and all of the favorites clicked, that SALES were just around the corner… This is definitely the definition of insanity.

The FIX is in…How Does This Happen?

I was shocked when I found sellers with inferior products to mine, priced higher and having hundreds and even thousands of sales, not to mention looking at their products and seeing 21 people have this in their shopping cart. I didn’t see that with my products, that were less in price, with a free gift and free shipping… So I started searching and watching successful Etsy sellers to see what they knew that I didn’t.

What I found is not that they knew anymore than I did, I saw that they had thousands of sales and I realized that Etsy is actually giving sellers preferred PREFERENCE. People who have made Etsy MORE money than we had paid in, got preferential SEO placement. Preference so that they were actually converting Fav clicks to Sales.

This became extremely evident when I started paying attention to the number of people with products in their carts with sellers who had hundreds and moreover thousands of sales, versus sellers starting out with none to just a few sales. What I saw was the price didn’t matter. Free Shipping didn’t matter. Free Gifts with every order DIDN’T MATTER. So I began to search the web and found quite a few people who had uncovered the same shocking stats that I had just uncovered.

My theory of “It’s all about the Money” seemed to be right on “Money”,,, wink…wink!

My Observation of Favorites

So as I said above, we’ve watched the number of people favoriting our products growing daily. But I believe this is false misleading information from Etsy.
No, I DO believe that people are actually favoriting our products, I favorite other people’s products that I am interested in so I can go back and buy… and I do go back and buy. But if I don’t go back and buy, I usually UN-FAV the item.

My observation is that I NEVER get notifications when people UN-FAVORITE one of my items, nor do I see my totals of favorites get less.

This is mis-leading information.
It leads me to believe that all of these people still have my products in their favorites list and that leads me to FEAR closing my Etsy shop because I might KILL potential sales. It leads me to FEAR letting one of my “Favorited” items expire as I might miss a potential sale. So I let them keep auto-renewing… “cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching” for Etsy.

The problem with all of this is that those sales are still POTENTIAL and have never materialized. It they were going to materialize, logic says that there would be a conversion rate from FAV to SALE. A percentage, if you will of Favorited items would actually sell over a month or two…

Prolog

If you’re an Etsy Seller and you’re actually making sales CONGRATULATIONS. You did something right to get their (or their algorithms) attention.

If you’re thinking about opening an Etsy Shop for your products. Do more research. Don’t take my word for it on a global aspect. What happened to me has happened to many others but there are a few who are making money with Etsy. I believe there are more people paying fees and seeing few to no sales over those who are successfully making a living, or even good extra money.

I also believe that Etsy is over booked. They have too many shops making similar items and not enough customers to go around.

I also believe that people are now BARGAIN shopping, versus QUALITY shopping. There are so many foreign sellers cutting prices that true U.S.A. Handmade items are not so prized by buyers. When the market floods with cheaper goods (cheaper in price, also means cheaper in quality) a different clientele starts shopping on Etsy and I believe this cheaper clientele is more price conscious versus made in the USA quality.

Foreign Sellers are Subsidized

I’ve bought items that come from China and I was shocked when I saw what they pay for postage to get it from there to me in the U.S.

I started researching and found that WE all pay for their postage…

WHAT again??

The U.S. Postal service subsidizes a huge amount of foreign postage coming into the U.S. I don’t really understand why and how but a seller in China can send me an item for TWELVE CENTS and it comes 9,796 km (6,087 miles). Most packages come via air too. Okay, I can’t send the same package from Duchesne, Utah to Beijing for twelve cents. So I asked my postmaster how that happens. He said the U.S. Post Office subsidizes it.

No wonder our postage rates are going up and they’re going bankrupt.

Even more, it’s no wonder Etsy an eBay are swamped with foreign sellers offering FREE SHIPPING… U.S. Handmade business can not compete.

Part of the problem is also the growing numbers of people who are willing to buy from foreign sellers and take a lesser quality item with free shipping, all for a price I can’t even make my version of the product for, and WITHOUT even accounting for a small labor cost or profit margin.

To each his/her own.

I’m too old and now too tired to keep trying to play by Etsy’s unpublished rule book.

So, this is where insanity stopped.

We Closed Our Etsy Shop and consequently stopped hemorrhaging money.

We’ve now got a small budget to do something else with. I’ll keep you posted when I find something that works like a normal person would expect.

Thanks for reading…

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What Is Hyaluronic Acid?

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WHAT IS HYALURONIC ACID
AND HOW DOES IT WORK


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HYALURONIC ACID IS A BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT MOLECULE THAT DELIVERS MOISTURE AND PEPTIDES DEEP INTO THE SKIN
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Synopsys:

Hyaluronic Acid (HA) is a natural biological delivery mechanism that will deliver anything it can absorb during manufacture deep into the dermis layer of your skin. In this serums case the payload is purified, filtered, pH adjusted water.

Details:

Hyaluronic acid, is scientifically known as Sodium Hyaluronate or hyaluronan. It is a visco-elastic molecule meaning that it can stretch to absorb and hold 1,000 times its weight in fluid (usually pH adjusted, ionized, filtered, purified water, but it may also be used to transport other nourishing and/or healing serums deep into the dermis layer of the skin).

It is in essence a biological balloon that can increase 1,000 times its size with any liquid surrounding it. Hyaluronic Acid is most prevalent in our skin, eyes and cartilage with our skin containing 50% of all Hyaluronic Acid in our body. As we age our bodies produce less and less of this molecule and our natural skin hydration begins to suffer.

Think of hyaluronic acid like little micro biological water bottles for quenching your skins thirst.

NON-TOXIC and NON-IMMUNOGENIC
By its self hyaluronic acid is nontoxic and nonimmunogenic (does not cause an immune response or reaction in mammals).

As a naturally occurring molecule in the skin, it is necessary component of healthy skin and is therefore desired by and absorbed very quickly by the skin upon contact. There the HA molecule transfers (or feeds if you will) it’s stored payload directly to the skin cells and connecting tissues it comes in contact with. It fills the spaces between the connective fibers of collagen and elastin with moisture. Because it is a naturally occurring molecule in the skin, it is absorbed very quickly.

Hyaluronic Acid is available in different formats: For topical cosmetics, lotions, gels and serums, it is available in FDA approved non-prescription amounts of less than 2.5% concentration with most dermatologists preferring their patients to use no greater than 2%.

It is also available by prescription in Injectable formats from doctors, hospitals and pharmacies.


Why do I need Hyaluronic Acid Facial Serum?
Hyaluronic Acid is an extreme hydrating molecule that is known to replace moisture in the skin. Loss of moisture from air, toxins, free radical damage, sun exposure, age and more all result in thinning, sagging, worn out, dry and wrinkling skin. Wrinkles begin to appear from the loss of three important components of the skin; Hyaluronic Acid, Collagen and Elastin. As your skin loses its hyaluronic acid production, it’s natural youthful hydration decreases and the collagen and elastin begin to dry out. With this drying, the firmness and elasticity of the skin begin to suffer compounding day after day, month after month and year after year. The inevitable result is wrinkling, weathered, sagging, thinning, aging, ugly skin.
When applied topically Hyaluronic Acid can also treat burns. bed sores, wounds, skin ulcers and other tissue damage.


? Topically applied, Hyaluronic Acid’s water storing properties make it an ideal swelling agent and deep skin tissue lubricant, enabling its incorporation into cosmetics leading to a perceptible and visible improvement of skin condition.
In use, it forms a thin transparent visco-elastic surface film that helps to preserve the characteristics of youthful and healthy skin: suppleness, elasticity and tone. Once in the skin it attracts and holds water until the water is needed by the surrounding tissue. Since the Hyaluronic Acid molecule can expand 1,000 times its size with fluid, this creates a plumping action in the skin that gives skin its smooth, porcelain youthful look.

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We would like to think that everyone makes facial serums under the strict conditions of Kauai Girl Soap & Cosmetics but unfortunately this is NOT the case, so… 

  • Do Your Homework. Read On to see how we make it and Google Hyaluronic Acid, how it works and what it does.
  • Know how the serums you buy are made and under what conditions.
    Remember this is a visco-elastic molecule that absorbs what ever it is placed in and then when applied to your skin it releases that liquid deep into the dermis layer of your skin. If HA is manufactured with impure, non pH adjusted water or other contaminated liquid, that is what it will deliver deep into your skin… I have a hard time even thinking about that… ew!

HOW WE MAKE THIS SERUM
We make all of our facial serums in our Asepsis – UVGI laboratory for your protection, security and peace of mind.
See: OUR GERMICIDAL ASEPSIS* – UVGI – MANUFACTURING PRACTICES below.

 


Dr. Fukaya, Japanese Dermatologist
Asako Ito, Ookuma Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
According to Dr. Fukaya, a typical over the counter lotion [serum] made with 2%  strength hyaluronic acid has proven helpful for improving appearance of fine lines and wrinkles through natural hydration process of the skin. It has also proven beneficial for those withdrawing from Topical Steroidal Addiction, as a result of treatment of skin conditions like eczema with topical corticorsteroids, as well as soothing Roseacea.[1]


Where does Hyaluronic Acid come from…

HA was originally extracted from Rooster combs but is now collected as a reactive byproduct of a benign bacteria and this HA is identical in molecular structure to your skin’s natural Hyaluronic Acid.


Click here to read about Hyaluronic Acid and its skin benefits on WIKIPEDIA


OUR GERMICIDAL ASEPSIS* – UVGI – MANUFACTURING PRACTICES

This product, like all Kauai Girl Soap products is handmade in the Kauai Girl Soap Laboratory with the exception that this product is also Handmade at an asepsis high power ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) station. UVGI kills all microorganisms in the irradiated area and surrounding area. It is where this and other products like it are made and packaged. The UVGI process renders microorganisms dead on any surface, container and technician exposed to the high powered invisible light, as well as within a wide radius of the compounding area where ever the high powered invisible light can penetrate. It is deadly to all: Bacterium, Virii (viruses), molds and other pathogens. A small sample of the types of microorganisms killed by this process are, but not limited to: Clostridium difficile bacteria (c.diff), Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria (MRSA), pneumococci (pneumonia), flu virii, Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE) and more. Technicians in our facility must be gowned, masked and gloved (like a surgical room) to cover any exposed skin for their protection and make them asepsis for your protection. They must also wear protective filtered eye ware as this process can cause severe sunburn to skin or retinal damage to eyes in just minutes.


??CHECK THE COMPETITION??
Look at the competitions ingredients and their percentages of HA
(some don’t even tell you how much HA they put in because it’s so low).
Also, Some handmade soap makers who think mixing this up on their kitchen table is a good thing put very little HA in their bottle and then they may also add all other types of essential oils, chemicals, fillers and un-necessary additives to try to make up for the deficit, and if they use a preservative, it is typically a general hand cream or even a shampoo or cologne preservative.

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Sure, we’re a handmade soap maker, but we go to serious extra lengths to assure you that we’re making your Hyaluronic acid and other facial serums in an absolutely germ and contaminant free workplace, which is NOT our home but a dedicated cosmetics laboratory and as serum preservatives go…we use an expensive, all natural, hypo-allergenic cosmetic preservative created especially for facial serums.

So, if you’re thinking about buying less expensive facial products from a handmade home soapmaker, ask yourself; Are they thinking about my health and mixing their HA serum in a UVGI clean environment with filtered, purified, pH adjusted water for skin and the best hyaluronic acid and hypo-allergenic preservatives money can buy?
WE DO
Please Read On…


COMPARE, COMPARE, COMPARE…

Sure, you’re going to find cheaper products claiming to be Hyaluronic Acid but when you really and seriously look at those products, you’ll see that they are exactly that… cheap!

Do yourself a favor and buy the best; Kauai Girl Soap & Cosmetics 2% Hyaluronic Acid Long Lasting Hydration Facial Serum.

When you really compare, you will find similar products in strength and quality to ours (they are out there), but they’re also $200-$300 more per ounce.


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WHY SUCH A BIG DEAL OVER UVGI GERMICIDAL MANUFACTURING?
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It’s all about YOUR Safety and Protection and Peace of Mind.


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  1. Hyaluronic Acid is widely used in over counter cosmetics, serums, gels and lotions but a Japanese Dermatologist decided to study it, in depth, to see how much, if any, it really helped as a natural topical application for skin hydration. In brief:
    Asako Ito, Ookuma Hospital, Nagoya, Japan has published a paper re 
    The Effects of a Hyaluronic Acid Lotion [serum] with a Molecular Weight of around 50 – 110 kDa on the Aged Atrophic Skin.
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    published in the Journal of Cosmetics, Dermatological Sciences and Applications, 2014,4 150-14. The lotion [topical serum] used in the study was essentially the same over the counter formulation used all over the world consisting of a non-prescription strength of 2% Sodium Hyaluronate in purified and filtered water with nothing else other than preservatives.
    According to Dr. Fukaya in this paper, this non-prescription strength of 2% Hyaluronic Acid lotion [topical serum] has been helpful in improving the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles through the natural process of skin hydration. His observations were also that this lotion [topical serum] has proven beneficial for those withdrawing from prescription Topical Steroidal Addiction, as a result of treatment of skin conditions like eczema with topical corticorsteroids, as well as soothing Roseacea.

SPECIAL NOTES:
WHILE HYALURONIC ACID IS NOT KNOWN TO CAUSE CANCER it is found in higher quantities surrounding malignant tissues, mainly breast and prostate cancers. It is postulated that the body tries to surround cancerous cells with more HA possibly in an attempt to heal them but usually without success.
It is therefore a good practice to notify your doctor of your use of Hyaluronic Acid  if he/she is going to perform tests for cancerous tumors. While there may be no indications while using HA, it would be better not to get a false positive and undergo the stress of hearing those results. Your doctor may also ask you to stop using HA for some time prior to cancer tests. In some cancers, hyaluronic acid levels correlate well with malignancy and poor prognosis. Hyaluronic acid is, thus, often used as a tumor marker for prostate and breast cancer and its levels may also be used to monitor the progression of the disease. Therefore, use of topical Hyaluronic Acid may have the ability to present a false positive for certain types of cancer tests. 
HYALURONIC ACID is being used to fight cancer.
According to the article: “Targeting Hyaluronic Acid Family for Cancer Chemoprevention and Therapy” , HA is now being used for molecular delivery of chemotherapy drugs similar to the way it is used in cosmetics for peptide and H2O delivery. HA will absorb chemotherapy medications and deliver them to the site of action where they are released.


Sodium Hyaluronate is hypo allergenic and is NOT on the California Proposition 65 warning list however we have placed a link here for your information. California residents: Click here for more information regarding California Proposition 65.