A fastener for securing adjacent layers of body tissue to each other and being configured and composed of a material so as to emerge from the body tissue after a limited period of time. The fastener includes a backspan and at least two prongs extending from the backspan. Each prong has a tapered tip culminating in a sharp point. The prongs each include a shaft having a cylindrical portion of uniform diameter. In one embodiment the prong includes a serrated portion having a plurality of notches s...

The invention provides cosmetics using a freeze-dried material which is obtained by freeze-drying an aqueous solution. The solution contains hyaluronic acid or sodium hyaluronate and magnesium-L-ascrbil phosphate.

A light colored standardized extract of Emblica officinalis consisting essentially of over 40% by weight of Emblicanin A. Emblicanin B, Pedunculagin and Punigluconin, and not more than about 1% by weight of flavonoids, and methods of producing same. Also disclosed are cosmetic or pharmaceutical compositions comprising the standardized extract and methods of using same to lighten or whiten skin.

A skin pricker has an elongate housing containing a spring-loaded lancet which, when released from a rearward, cocked position by a trigger, shoots forward momentarily to project the tip of its needle through one end of the housing. The lancet is then prevented by a spring ratchet from being returned again to the cocked position. The cocking can be done through a twist-and-pull cap initially covering the needle tip and extending through that one end of the housing, the user pushing the cap to re...

A skin cleaner includes a lower container, and an upper bowl having a rim defining an opening for receiving the face of users. The container has a chamber for containing a first liquid while the bowl has a cup located in the opening for containing a second liquid. A heater is provided for heating and converting the second liquid into vapor, which is then discharged from the cup into the opening of the bowl. The skin cleaner further includes a nozzle disposed in the bowl, and a pump for pumping t...

A light colored standardized extract of Emblica officinalis consisting essentially of over 40% by weight of Emblicanin A. Emblicanin B, Pedunculagin and Punigluconin, and not more than about 1% by weight of flavonoids, and methods of producing same. Also disclosed are cosmetic or pharmaceutical compositions comprising the standardized extract and methods of using same to lighten or whiten skin.

A skin ointment, comprising about twelve (12%) percent by volume mink oil; about nine (9%) percent by volume lanolin; about four (4%) percent by volume zinc stearate; about four (4%) percent by volume octylmethoxycinnamate; about four (4%) percent by volume methylgluceth--10; about four (4%) by volume peg 100 stearate; about three (3%) percent by volume cetal; about three (3%) percent by volume peanut oil; about two (2%) percent glyceral monostrearate; about two (2%) percent acetylated lanolin a...

An artificial skin or bandage is formed from an elastomeric layer which is surfaced by a fibrous wound contacting layer which is first formed into a fabric and subsequently degraded by heat hydrolysis or other degradative treatment into a form which could no longer be formed into a fabric but which forms an ideal bioabsorbable wound contact surface in which damage to the newly formed, fragile epidermus is minimized.

The invention relates to an artificial skin which is made up of (1) a water vapor-permeable, non-porous top layer of a segmented thermoplastic copolyester with a thickness of 5-200 .mu.m, consisting essentially of a multiplicity of recurring long-chain-ester-units and short-chain-ester-units, the long-chain-ester-units making up 30-70% by weight of the copolyester and being represented by the formula and the short-chain-ester-units being represented by the formula wherein L in the long-chain-uni...

The skin tension set includes an anchor member having a body portion and a plurality of suture guides along its sidewalls and bottom coupled by a single suture loop to the anchor is a winder. The winder has a body portion with suture guides at the bottom not unlike the anchor portion. In addition, however, the winder includes a central reel with suture anchoring guides, a ratchet at one end, and a drive preferably with the form of a detachable knurled knob at the other. According to the method o...