Skincare inspiration from US Patent No. 6,531,132–anti-wrinkle skincare recipes

LYCD is the acronym for Live Yeast Cell Derivative. The material is also known as Skin Respiratory Factor (SRF), Tissue Respiratory Factor (TRF) , and Procytoxoid (PCO) . The product, LYCD, is an alcoholic extract of viable Saccharomvces cerevisiae. The material is produced and marketed by MDH Laboratories, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio 45210 as a standard article of commerce. Another producer of LYCD is Universal Foods Corporation, Fermentation Division, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202.  LYCD is also available as LYCODERM^ ointment containing 2,000 units Skin Respiratory Factor (SRF) per ounce, from Arel Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio. The well known hemorrhoidal ointment, PREPARATION H, contains 2000 units of SRF (ca 1%) per ounce of ointment.

J. Z Kaplan (Arch. Surge. 119(9) p. 1005-8 (1984) has reported that, in a double blind human skin graft study donor sites treated with LYCD ointment, statistically significant earlier angiogeneεis and epitheliazation occurred as compared with donor sites in the same patients treated with ointment bases (without LYCD). This study confirmed earlier laboratory reports such as that of Wm. Goodson et. al. Journal of Surgical Research 21: 125-129 (1976) showing that LYCD is capable of stimulating wound oxygen consumption, epitheliazation, and collagen synthesis (Ok, these are mouthful--in layman terms, anti-wrinkle!).

Here is an example of making LYCD ointment for skincare use.  Heat the beeswax, petrolatum (you can replace this with shea butter), vitamin E oil together to a temperature of 140 deg. F. in a steam-jacketed kettle. The materials are mixed until the mixture is uniform. Then the steam is turned off and cooling water is introduced while mixing is continued. When the mixture has reached a temperature of 110 deg. F., add the LYCD and thyme oil.  Keep mixing the composition until the composition becomes uniform. 

You can also make your own LYCD products using baker’s yeast that you can buy from your local grocery store.   For example, to make a facial mask, you can use crushed baker’s year powder mixed up with other herb powders and fillers.  I tend to use oat flour as the filler.  You can pretty much use any grain flour for the purpose.  However, I did notice that I tend to be allergic to the yeast powder based mask.  So, please do check before you use on your face.

Thanks for reading.

Connie
connie@cherruby.com