WIPE ON/ WIPE OFF: A Needle-Free, Wrinkle-Free Future?
Oct 31, 2011 Posted by Corrie Shenigo
Ah Halloween! A time of goblins and ghouls, candy and costumes, haunted houses and hayrides through fright-filled mazes so scary that you might wet your pants a little – (Dear so-called friends: Seriously, I’m not goin’ next year. I’m not.) A time when slutty-cops/cat/maid get-ups come out for their yearly pornographic parade and then tuck themselves neatly into your closet (and psyche) for yet another long winters nap. A time when the white-faced, smokey-eyed Black Swan make-up you spent hours applying immediately settles into your smile lines and eye creases, highlighting each and every wrinkle for all the world to see.
(*screeech!) Wait. What?!
Now, now… I wouldn’t ruin Halloween without offering up a little hope in the form of a Botox/Dysport-like product that, instead of requiring a painful injection, would simply be wiped on with the wax-on-wax-off ease of a Karate-Kid comeback.
That’s right, on the heels of all the Sci-fi news we’ve been yammering about comes another futuristic product that is poised for a major-major breakthrough – especially for you needle-phobes.
The big buzz at a recent Hot Topics seminar hosted bi-annually by the Innovative Procedures Committee and Emerging Trends Task Force of the Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation (ASERF) and the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation (PSEF) was the droid-sounding RT001 – a wipe-on botulinum toxin called Type A. The product is a topical gel that temporarily relaxes the aforementioned eye wrinkles, smoothing them out into a primed face-paint-ready canvas. No needles, no anesthetic, no pain.
A new study of patients with moderate to severe crow’s-feet found that a whopping 89% of the 270 participants “experiences a statistically significant improvement of wrinkles,” with the effects lasting nearly as long as injectables! In past studies RT001 has also proven itself effective in treating excessive sweating, too. So let’s give it up for RT001’s ability to multi-task! (*resounding applause.)
Before your excitement level calls for it’s fainting couch, this product is still in the testing phase, but the company developing it, Revance Therapeutics, reports that the results have been significantly positive with no seriously adverse effects.
All you DYI-er’s can just calm down, too. RT001 will still require a doctor’s visit… it is a drug after all. But imagine, erasing crow’s-feet with the ease of a post-lobster dinner handy wipe? Amazing!
We here at Project Beauty will keep you in-the-know about this one. Just think, in a year or two your All Hallow’s Eve zombie make-up might settle smoothly on your skin just as god-intended. Happy Halloween!
(*screeech!) Wait. What?!
Now, now… I wouldn’t ruin Halloween without offering up a little hope in the form of a Botox/Dysport-like product that, instead of requiring a painful injection, would simply be wiped on with the wax-on-wax-off ease of a Karate-Kid comeback.
That’s right, on the heels of all the Sci-fi news we’ve been yammering about comes another futuristic product that is poised for a major-major breakthrough – especially for you needle-phobes.
The big buzz at a recent Hot Topics seminar hosted bi-annually by the Innovative Procedures Committee and Emerging Trends Task Force of the Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation (ASERF) and the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation (PSEF) was the droid-sounding RT001 – a wipe-on botulinum toxin called Type A. The product is a topical gel that temporarily relaxes the aforementioned eye wrinkles, smoothing them out into a primed face-paint-ready canvas. No needles, no anesthetic, no pain.
A new study of patients with moderate to severe crow’s-feet found that a whopping 89% of the 270 participants “experiences a statistically significant improvement of wrinkles,” with the effects lasting nearly as long as injectables! In past studies RT001 has also proven itself effective in treating excessive sweating, too. So let’s give it up for RT001’s ability to multi-task! (*resounding applause.)
Before your excitement level calls for it’s fainting couch, this product is still in the testing phase, but the company developing it, Revance Therapeutics, reports that the results have been significantly positive with no seriously adverse effects.
All you DYI-er’s can just calm down, too. RT001 will still require a doctor’s visit… it is a drug after all. But imagine, erasing crow’s-feet with the ease of a post-lobster dinner handy wipe? Amazing!
We here at Project Beauty will keep you in-the-know about this one. Just think, in a year or two your All Hallow’s Eve zombie make-up might settle smoothly on your skin just as god-intended. Happy Halloween!