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Snake Venom Facial Becoming Popular in West
A new cream is being marketed as a budget alternative to Botox. It claims it too can smooth wrinkles using the synthetic form of the poison produced by Asian temple viper snakes.
For a little more than $8.00, you can buy a tube of Lacura Wrinkle Stop, which contains a compound called Syn-Ake.
The compound mimics the snake's paralyzing venom and promises to block the nerve signals which cause facial muscles to contract.
After four weeks of applying the cream twice-daily, laboratory tests showed a reduction of wrinkles by 52 percent.
Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow is said to be a patron of the cream.
The new moisturiser will be stocked in Aldi stores from April 20, Telegraph reported. A spokesman said: "It offers the perfect solution for wrinkle reduction without the need for spending an excessive amount of money on expensive products and painful procedures
But it is not as if there is anything new about it. For back in 2005 a Canadian skin care company Euoko launched a new anti-aging collection featuring a synthetic tripeptide protein that mimics the activity of a protein found in Temple Viper venom.
The Louvre Collection contains a protein that mimics the activity of the venom protein Walgerlin-1. The manufacturers said that the protein was totally safe and hasdbeen clinically proven to reduce the size, depth and number of wrinkles - particularly expression lines - by relaxing facial muscles.
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