BioKorium Skin Care

Skin Care trends and treatments come and go. When I entered the professional skin care industry about 35 years ago, the industry dictated Vaseline or the byproducts of Vaseline was Taboo or even dangerous to use on the skin. I can’t tell you how many times I heard someone say, you’re not supposed to put petroleum on your skin, and then I had to argue the point it was okay to use. The Vaseline controversy has been around for decades.

Slugging and the use of petroleum-based products has come full circle and is now one of the hottest effective skin care trends. After about 3 years of trending on social media many are discovering the successful occlusive properties of this fantastic ingredient. Vaseline, petrolatum, or mineral oil whatever you want to call it has been a versatile ingredient, used in Medicine, Pharmacy and Households for all sorts of healing aids and personal care products. They have been around for centuries, and I now believe they are here to stay.

The one thing that no one can dispute, if you are 60 or 70 years of age, the one thing you need is moisture!

The idea of Transepidermal Water Loss (TEWL or TWL) is the loss of water that passes from inside a body through the epidermis to our surrounding environment, causing skin to become dry.  Slugging fights Transepidermal Water Loss, hence, increases moisture content within the skin.

Preparing the moisture base on your skin is important.  The moisture base layers applied to the skin consist of first, Hyaluronic Acid Hydration Facial Serum, and second, Skin Water Hydration Cream.  These products will be pushed into the skin after the occlusive product is applied, such as our Waterscreen Healing & Sealing Adsorption Ointment Base.  The secondary occlusive product that Vivian uses is Plastic Wrap.  As indicated in the video she will show you how to apply to the face for maximum results.

Treatment Slugging is much different than Slugging, since you are now using a treatment product such as Glycolic Acid, Retinol, Vitamin C etc. as the underlying treatment to placing a petroleum based product above it.  The occlusive based petroleum product we use in this video is BioKorium Waterscreen Ointment.  Receiving the best skin results using a topical treatment cosmetic product is why you must understand the process of slugging.  Understanding how slugging intensifies the treatment product on the skin is essential in safely receiving incredible results is imperative.

Products use in this video are BioKorium Hyaluronic Acid Facial Serum or BioKorium Corrective Signal Peptides Facial Serum; BioKorium Oxygen Emulsion Cream (for sale soon) and BioKorium Waterscreen Ointment and BioKorium Skin Water Hydration Cream.

Treatment Slugging is much different than Slugging, since you are now using a treatment product such as Glycolic Acid, Retinol, Vitamin C etc. as the underlying treatment to placing a petroleum based product above it.  The occlusive based petroleum product we use in this video is BioKorium Waterscreen Ointment.

Products use in this video are BioKorium Hyaluronic Acid Facial Serum or BioKorium Corrective Signal Peptides Facial Serum; BioKorium Oxygen Emulsion Cream (for sale soon) and BioKorium Waterscreen Ointment and BioKorium Skin Water Hydration Cream.

There are over 4,000 published papers on the use of “oxygen therapy” and most of this therapy is based on the use of hydrogen peroxide. It is even found naturally in the body, in small amounts.
Oxygen products are known as hydrogen peroxide emulsion products. Our exclusive formulation is designed to give you skin optimum smoothness, clarity, and luminosity. It brings and binds oxygen to your skin. Unlike other oxygen emulsion products on the market, our product is produced on a weekly basis due to the instability of hydrogen peroxide, as our chemist recommends.

In terms of skin care, oxygen emulsion supplies the skin cells with water and oxygen, as in above figure, both of which are necessary for normal cellular functions.  After hydrogen peroxide oxygen emulsion cream is topically applied to the skin, it comes in contact with the catalase enzyme within and is then broken down to oxygen and water.  RXN: [ 2 H2O2 —> 2 H2O + O2]

If you look at cosmetic marketing today, most every article and advertisement concerning skin involves dehydrated skin. Why does skin dehydrate? Because as we age the epidermis and the function of the dermis becomes sluggish. Therefore, water is not retained as efficiently as in younger skin. It is dehydrated due to a lack of water so “moisturizers” are used to prevent water loss. The oxygen emulsion products supply water to the skin cells. They also supply oxygen, which is needed for normal cellular metabolism. Combined with other ingredients, it is now possible to supply skin cells with what they need to function normally. The oxygen emulsion acts as a “vehicle” or “carrier” and when it penetrates the skin, it takes the other ingredients with it, if they are of the right molecular size. This unique action allows the oxygen emulsion to supply the cells with everything they need to function normally. When the face skin cells are functioning properly, the cells produce elastin, collagen, and other essential end-products necessary for good skin conditions.

In summary, the best answer to aging skin and wrinkles, is prevention. Today’s skin care products are effective and can help in a better appearance. The decision of what to use, will depend on what works best for you. No one product is the total answer. But used in combination with each other, the results can be dramatic. Prevention of skin aging must begin in our teenage years. We can’t stop aging, but, with proper care, and the technology behind these products, we can delay it.

The right combination of topical moisturizing ingredients can work to repair a damaged or weakened skin barrier and therefore reduce transepidermal water loss.  Not only does a damaged skin barrier allow for increased transepidermal water loss, but it also allows pathogens to enter the skin, which can cause a whole host of unwanted conditions.

Dry, dehydrated skin is a common problem for women and men alike, especially if you live in an area where cooler, drier air is starting to move in for the winter.

The skin will let you know when it is dry and depleted.  It has been my experience as a trained professional, that no one seems to be listening their body’s largest organ.  When your skin feels dry, it is telling you it is thirsty.  Moisturize it!

The Skin Care Industry sets the standard to moisturize the skin in the morning and evening.  The skin may need more or less moisture,  you need to pay attention to what you skin is telling you.

In this video we are using BioKorium Corrective Signal Peptide Serum, Grapeseed Extract Cream and Waterscreen Ointment Healing and Sealing Absorbtion Base.

Slugging has been done for generations!

Skin Care trends and treatments come and go. When I entered the professional skin care industry about 35 years ago, the industry dictated Vaseline or the byproducts of Vaseline was Taboo or even dangerous to use on the skin. I can’t tell you how many times I heard someone say, you’re not supposed to put petroleum on your skin, and then I had to argue the point it was okay to use. The Vaseline controversy has been around for decades.

Slugging and the use of petroleum-based products has come full circle and is now one of the hottest effective skin care trends. After about 3 years of trending on social media many are discovering the successful occlusive properties of this fantastic ingredient.

Vaseline, petrolatum, or mineral oil whatever you want to call it has been a versatile ingredient, used in Medicine, Pharmacy and Households for all sorts of healing aids and personal care products. They have been around for centuries, and I now believe they are here to stay.

Transepidermal Water Loss (TEWL or TWL) is the loss of water that passes from inside a body through the epidermis to our surrounding environment.  Slugging fights Transepidermal Water Loss.

Vivian begins by using a Hyaluronic Acid Facial Serum, you can use our Hyaluronic Acid Serum, or our Hyaluronic Acid with Niacinamide or our Hyaluronic Acid with Signal Peptides.

Then she adds Skin Water Hydration Cream as another base, finalizing the process with Waterscreen Ointment.

We combined these three in our X-Treme Slugging Kit.

For many years Petrolatum or any Vaseline type ingredient has been regarded as being unsafe. Many in the skin care industry, pushed the narrative that this highly regarded oil was bad for the skin.  The industry has finally embraced Petrolatum as a fruitful addition to one’s skin care regimen.  What the industry has been hiding was that Petrolatum’s beneficial properties for skin care and treatment have been extensively reported for decades. It’s considered an occlusive moisturizer and skin protectant. It’s non-comedogenic, non-irritant, and non-allergenic.  Highly used in wound care, sports medicine, pharmaceutical compounding as a vehicle for the delivery of drugs.  Petrolatum’s record in medical treatment applications to protect the skin against physical and chemical traumas are many, including the treatment of cuts, abrasions and burns goes undaunted.  As scientist continue to develop new products, the next 100 years will likely find this unique natural product, petrolatum, at the top of the list in the personal skin care industry.

BioKorium was at the forefront of the industry with the use of Petrolatum in its Waterscreen Skin Ointment, the perfect adjunct to the new “Slugging” phenomenon.  Slugging was not a concept just started, people have been doing this for decades and has been part of BioKorium’s Skin Care Program since its inception.  Originally developed as an after-skin care adjunct to the Glycolic Acid Skin Peel which begun in the early 1990’s and was an integral part of that treatment skin care program.

We need to start a new Skin Care Revolution.  The way skin care is practiced today is not working.  I have not seen dramatic results as we are promised by the skin care industry.  Like building your collagen.  Have you ever seen anyone who actually has rebuild their collagen?

What I have learned is that Skin Care has to have a new message.  If science is making our bodies live longer, why can’t we delve into the future of skin science in order to make the skin work a better way?  At BioKorium, we do just that, we test new methods based on science to make skin perform and work a better way.

When I became 62, and I looked at my photo, I was just disgusted.  I decided I was either going to get out of the business, or I was going to figure it out.  I literally had to start over, in finding new ways and new avenues on how to repair my skin.  Well, I found it, and I am going to explain to everyone on how I found it.  I am going to take everyone on my journey on how to attain the best skin care possible and to see if I can get my skin better than it is today.  Your skin is the largest organ, and I’m going to show you how it impacts your entire body! Enormously!

What I have been telling my clients is that “Skin Care Can Never Repair Your Skin, The Only Thing That Can Repair Your Skin… Is Your Skin!  In other words, your skin has to be as healthy as possible!  Therefore, we have to look at the health of the skin!  Healthy Skin in my opinion means results.  When your skin is healthy, your skin functions well.  We have to remember that effects happen within the skin cells.  Skin Cells must communicate, therefore when those cells are communicating properly, you will attain ageless skin.   Well-functioning skin attains extraordinary results; hence, great skin results lead to a cosmetically great skin care appearance.  This is what we want to achieve within the realm of skin care results.  Unfortunately, no one in the skin care industry is currently talking about Skin Health and well-functioning skin!

There are repair mechanisms in each and every one of your cells, you have to get them to work, you get them to work through proper skin care; by proper skin care they will do their job, doing their job is allowing these skin cells to communicate.  Hence, with increased cell communication you will allow these skin cells to make you ‘AGELESS.’

My premise is I want concrete results from skin care, and I want those results to last me a lifetime!  Remember, “Skin Care Can Never Repair Your Skin, The Only Thing That Can Repair Your Skin, Is Your Skin!”