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Sounds perfect, right? If we hated our wrinkles and we could afford Vavelta, why wouldn't we all try it?
Well, let's see, maybe because Vavelta is made from newborn babies' foreskin?
According to the Daily Mail story:
"Vavelta is a clear liquid in which tiny skin cells, called fibroblasts, are suspended. These are derived from baby foreskins donated by mothers at a hospital in the U.S. after routine circumcision. The mothers and babies are screened before the foreskins, which would otherwise be discarded, are used.
Once in Britain, they are divided into pieces less than a centimetre square and treated with enzymes to release the fibroblasts. These are grown in sterile conditions in labs. The process is monitored by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. and by Britain's Human Tissue Authority."
Fibroblast cells, the article goes on to say, are responsible for youthful-looking skin, but they die as we age. Therefore, injecting these cells back in makes your face look like it was when it was young: Smooth, thick, and more resilient.
So far the clinical trials on Vavelta have gone surprisingly well and the women who've tried it have basically said it's a life-transforming miracle with few side effects and incredible results.
This miracle, should it ever come our way, will not come cheap—a treatment will cost somewhere in the $2,300 range for an entire face.
Which is not really the worst amount, when you consider what people pay for face lifts, peels, et al.
But then there's the tricky issue of the baby penis skin. On the one hand, it's natural and less toxic-seeming than Botox and it was just going to be thrown away anyway. But on the other, it's really just kind of gross.
Source: Daily Mail
Earlier:
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Kristen Wiig's possible nose job makes me sad (and other disturbing celebrity plastic surgeries)
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