Patent Picks—Plant DNA, Aloesin, Pomegranate and More to Balance Skin

By: Rachel L. Grabenhofer

Posted: February 20, 2013

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Disclosed in this patent is a composition to prevent signs or conditions of aging and/or damage in skin, improve the appearance of skin, and promote recovery from environmental stresses. The composition includes pomegranate juice concentrate, extract and seed oil, and at least one pharmaceutically or cosmetically acceptable vehicle. One or more embodiments of the invention provides a method for preventing, arresting, reversing, ameliorating, diminishing, reducing or improving a sign of aging, in which a composition of the one or more embodiments of invention is topically applied to skin in a cosmetically effective amount.

Method for assessment of aesthetic and morphological conditions of the skin and prescription of cosmetic and/or dermatological treatment
US Patent Application 20130013330
Publication date: Jan. 10, 2013
Assignee: Natura Cosmeticos S.A.

These inventors describe a method for assessing and treating aesthetic and morphological conditions of the skin, and for prescribing a cosmetic and/or dermatological treatment. Said method involves: a) obtaining information on the age and life habits of a user; b) performing a biometric analysis of a corporeal portion of the user; c) processing the results from analyses of steps a) and b) and comparing them with predetermined data; d) obtaining a skin model of the user according to the data processed in step c); e) linking the user's skin model to predetermined data contained in a database about cosmetic and/or dermatological products; and f) prescribing a treatment and pre-selected cosmetic and/or dermatological products. Such treatment may include, for example, suspensions, liniments, ointments and/or cosmetic preparations for localized action.