"a bit weird" says Toronto dermatologist
Are you a self proclaimed skin care junkie? Will you try anything for a fix? Is your taste for new cutting edge products a budget buster? Here's an skin care innovation certain to burst your bubble...
A Swiss company names NeoCutis uses aborted fetal cells in its skin cream. It claims that the scientific rationale is an attempt to replicate the extraordinary healing properties that fetuses have shown in prenatal surgery.
The cultures used in making NeoCutis's products containing fetal cells are cloned in a lab from the original donated cells from the parents of the aborted fetus and were previously used in research. A spokesperson from NeoCutis claims "there are no continuous donations". According to Dr. Shotnicki-Grant, a Toronto based dermatologist, "Cultured cell lines have been around since the 1960's. These lines are expensive and this is the line they (NeoCutis) bought".
Debi Vinnege, from God for Life, a Tennessee anti-abortion group that initiated a boycott campaign against these NeoCutis products says, "There's just no excuse for using aborted babies in skin care products". When asked about their effectiveness, Dr Jason Rivers, BC based dermatologist, claimed, "I don't think there is enough clinical data to decide."
Depending how experimental one wants to be in their quest for beauty, sounds like a product with a radical approach and according to some observers, a high price to pay. A 50 ml tube of Neo-Cutis Restorative Skin Cream with Processed Skin Proteins is available online in Canada for a cost of $160 and possibly many sleepless nights.
Eeeeww!
Melani
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