Control Acne Breakouts

For thousands of years,people from all over the world have been using herb extracts, frog skin, snail skin and mucus to promote the healing of skin wounds, burns and infectious diseases. Recent Western medical research has started to unlock the magic of these natural alternatives of healing. The Discovery of naturally active peptides and glycoproteins in snail cells and secretions (Kubota Y et al., 1985) in frog skin (Zasloff, 1987) and in herbs (Broekaert et al., 1995) explains the beneficial effects of these therapies. Those bioactive peptides are extremely efficient against a range of microorganisms and are thus called antimicrobial peptides.
Such magic of Nature is also part of our own skin defense mechanism. Mammals are born with antimicrobial peptides arranged as an important defense against microbial infection (Gallo and Nizet, 2003). The skin is a defensive wall between internal organs and the outside environment. It is exposed daily to thousands of hypothetical aggressors, a host of toxins and mechanical stress. In order to bear these challenges, skin functions as a mechanical barrier and has an active defensive role in the identification of microbes as well as in the production of cytokines and defensive molecules like antimicrobial peptides.
The number of reports demonstrating the presence and up regulation of antimicrobial peptides in human tissues is increasing and reflects the significance of these peptides in skin protection and treatment. Scientists have focused on replicating its bioactive molecules (by biosynthesis) in the laboratory.
That is a promising new field for investigation and creating efficient drugs, but bringing a drug to clinical trial is time consuming and costly. Every thing from finding, identification, production and clinical trials, must be estimated as expenses that will bring a drug to market. Additionally, this process may also take ten or many more years to accomplish.
Fortunately coincidence and keen observation of the action of the snail serum on the small skin lesions of workers who manipulated snails, has allowed to persevere in making the extract available naturally in the form of a topical cream. Producers noticed that the workers they took care of the snails (in Chile) would have smoother skin. Those suffering from acne and rosacea would also show signs of improvement in their skin condition. The fact that the snail extract contains glycoproteins and peptides that destroy bacteria and organically induce the synthesis of endogenous antimicrobial peptides has been recognized since 1985. Due to a renewed interest in natural products for skin care, lotions containing snail serum have become more present.

By: Corey Evans

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