Snail Secretion for Skin Rejuvenation?!?!

The snail is a gastropod, a soft bodied invertebrate animal with no backbone and is protected by a hard external shell (mollusks). The snail retreats into its shell when it is alarmed. Snails can be found all over the world in the seas, fresh water, and in moist areas on land.

"Escargot" is the French word for snail. Escargot is also known as an appetiser dish of cooked land snails. Some species of snails that can be eaten are the "Helix Pomatia", "Petit-Gris Helix Aspersa" and "Helix Lucorum".

Interestingly, did you know that snails are also good for repairing our skin? The Cryptomphalus Aspersa Secretion (CAS) from a snail native to the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe can give vitality to the skin.

Benefits of CAS:
- Enhancement of skin regeneration
- Skin regeneration with bio-lifting effects and excellent cosmetic qualities
- Renews and repairs skin suffering environmental aggressions and photo-aging
- Accelerates the regeneration of cracked, dry and damaged skin
- Favours the collgen renovation in the extracellular matrix (collagenase activity), providing turgidity and elasticity to the skin
- Restructures and re-organises the extracellular matrix, reducing wrinkles and skin flaccidity
- Antioxidnat properties that slow down the damage induced by free radicals
- Contains essential trace elements such as calcium that stimulates cell metabolism
- Improves the appearance of the skin’s surface, its tightening and renewing effects leaving luminous and smooth

Uses of CAS in Combination with Dermatological Techniques:
Surface Treatments
- Superficial chemical peels (AHAs, Salicylic acid, Jessener’s solution, etc.)
- Mechnical peeling (Microderm etc.)
- Non-Abaltive laser (IPL)

Medium-Deep Treatments
- Medium chemical peels (TCA)
- Mechanical peeling (Dermabrasion)
- Laser (Resurfacing ablative laser – CO2, Erbium Yag)

Laser Hair Removal Treatments
- Diode, Ruby, Alexandrite, Argon, Nd:Yag
- Photo-depillation

Other Techniques
- Vascular laser treatment
- Cryotherapy
- Cryosurgery (liquid nitrogen)
- Electro-dessication
- Electro-surgery
- Infiltration techniques (fillings and BOTOX)
- Blepharoplasty
- Surgery (Liposuction, Mammoplasty, Lifting etc.)

Mechanism of Action of Cryptomphalus Aspersa Secretion in Dermocosmetic Techniques:
- Contributes to oxygenation of the skin (necessary for transformation of pro-collagen to collagen)
- Antioxidant activity
- Intense remodelling of the extracellular matrix
- Soothing and anti-inflammatory activity

Results of Using CAS in Dermocosmetic Techniques:
- Resolution of symptoms of erythema, pruritus ans sensation of buring
- Faster recovery of skin after any dermocosmetic technique
- Reduction of wrinkles
- Enhancement of dermacosmetic technical results

The Cryptomphalus Aspersa Secretion (CAS) by Endocare, is now available in ampoule form from all NeuGlow clinics. Call 24 hr hotline +65 8298 8000 for more information, or email enquiry@neuglow.com today.