March 17th, 2010, by Digital Davo | clinique, skin care
“Here’s the chance to virtually undo the visible evidence of sun damage, dark patches, age spots, even acne scarring. Gently. For all ethnicities”. So says the promotional material for Clinique’s Even Better Tone Corrector and makeup.
“Not even a leading prescription ingredient is faster in creating a more even skin tone”. Sounds too good to be true. Also sounds like it might be risky for rosacea sufferers. Anything that effective is surely going to be too harsh for rosacea sufferers right ? Time will tell whether this latest release from Clinique will join the Redness Solutions in the cosmetic counter’s rosacea push.
Here is the advertisement that appeared in the proceedings from the recent AAD meeting in Florida. Even though this product was introduced in 2008 it is noteworthy that Clinique are currently promoting it directly to physicians.
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Ingredients
Clinique does not publish the ingredients for this product but you can request them.
According to Spot of bother, published in The Times Online in January 2008, one of the key ingredients in Clinique’s new Even Better Skin Tone Corrector is ascorbyl glucoside.
The official list of ingredients;
water/aqua/eau, dimethicone, isododecane, cyclopentasiloxane, polysilicone-11, butylene glycol, yeast extract/faex/extrait de levure, ascorbyl glucoside, hordeum vulgare (barley) extract/extrait d’orge, betula alba (birch) bark extract, cucumis sativus (cucumber) fruit extract, scutellaria baicalensis root extract, morus bombycis (mulberry) root extract, trametes versicolor extract, helianthus annuus (sunflower) seedcake, saccharomyces lysate extract, curcuma longa (turmeric) root extract, oryza sativa (rice) bran extract, citrus grandis (grapefruit) peel extract, triticum vulgare (wheat) germ extract, peg-6, peg-10 dimethicone, cholesterol, salicylic acid, polysorbate 20, isohexadecane, propylene glycol dicaprate, caffeine, sodium rna, acetyl glucosamine, simethicone, tromethamine, caprylyl glycol, glycyrrhetinic acid, polysorbate 80, di-c12-18 alkyl dimonium chloride, sodium hyaluronate, tocopheryl acetate, squalane, sodium sulfite, sodium metabisulfite, hexylene glycol, ammonium acryloyldimethyltaurate/vp copolymer, acrylamide/sodium acryloyldimethyltaurate copolymer, sodium salicylate, disodium edta, phenoxyethanol, yellow 5 (ci 19140), yellow 6 (ci 15985).
Like many Clinique products, it is hard to glean much real information from such a detailed list.
Reviews
According to Clinique’s own web site, 290 of 367 (79%) customers would recommend this product to a friend.
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March 16th, 2010, by David Pascoe | research, research foundation
Brady Barrows has announced that the RRDi has published the Journal of the Rosacea Research & Development Institute: Volume 1 Number 1, 2010.
The journal has been produced by volunteer rosacea sufferers and consists of `articles by dermatologists, physicians, naturopaths, researchers and patients’.
This first edition is available for $15 from amazon.com and iUniverse. The purchase price is used to further the journal’s publication and lead to some novel rosacea research – although one can imagine that many thousands will need be sold to be able to fund research.
Volume 1, Number 1 Contents.
- A new class of topical medications may soon be available to treat facial redness
- Ocular rosacea, the number one contributor to poor ocular surface health
- Rheumatic autoimmunity as the cause of rosacea
- Inside rosacea
- Optimizing redness reduction, part I: Rosacea and skin care
- The importance of essential fatty acids for rosacea
- Food choices for rosacea immunity
- Rosacea, inflammation, and aging: The inefficiency of stress
- Psychological stress and rosacea
- The role of Demodex mites in the pathogenesis of rosacea and blepharitis and their control
- A molecular link between rosacea and gastrointestinal disease
- Signal Transduction Modulators to treat rosacea
- The effect of dietary salt on rosacea
- Is it possible for rosaceans to do research?
- Research Highlights
- Books and articles to be published in the future
When I am able to read a copy I’ll post a review of the contents. Congratulations to all who contributed to this publication.
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March 12th, 2010, by David Pascoe | finacea
Many rosacea sufferers don’t get to see how the large pharmaceutical companies are marketing rosacea treatments to physicians. The program list from the recent AAD meeting in Florida gives an idea of where and how these companies think they can best promote their prescription products. Recently Rosacea News highlighted what is seen as Galderma’s quest to own the rosacea market.
Here we are looking at Intendis (part of the Bayer Group) and Coria Laboratories who are promoting Finacea Plus; the combination of Finacea and 3 oz bottles of CeraVe Moisturizing Lotion and CeraVe Hydrating Cleanser.
The promotional offer is a Finacea + CeraVe Coupon that will save you $10 off Finacea and $2 off the CeraVe Moisturizer or Cleanser. Not much of a discount, but as you can see it is enough to build a colourful advertising campaign.
Finacea Plus is “For the multi-faceted challenges of mild to moderate rosacea” and is claimed to be “Offering more in one convenient package”. The coupon itself is available at the My Finacea web site.
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I wonder if offering a package of products with a glossy campaign is persuasive enough to link Finacea and CeraVe in peoples’ minds ? Do you feel a subconscious link building between the two ?
What next – should Galderma consider offering Metrogel with a couple of Cetaphil products ? Makes sense to me.
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March 10th, 2010, by David Pascoe | LED Therapy, acne treatments
Thanks to ClinuvelNews for highlighting the a $1.99 USD application available for your iPhone that is said to treat your acne. The application displays a red or blue screen which you then hold up to your face, supposedly allowing your skin to be treated while you make a phone call.
Here are example screen shots of what the introductory and red and blue screens look like when running the Acne Application.
AcneApp also scored a brief mention last December in the New York Times article Better Skin to the Touch? The piece offers the opinion from its creator that a lot more clinical study is required before any efficacy can be quantified. Dr. Pearson is said to fascinated by the concept of users treating their acne while talking on the phone.
An iPhone application is a small program that you can download and run on your phone.
According to a piece in WebMD, Dr. Pearson was not available to comment on the application, nor is his office able to comment on or support users of the application.
This application is no doubt only garnering publicity because it is not a free application. If the application was free it could easily be characterised as only being for entertainment value. Once an application costs money and looks like it treats a medical condition, it is natural for readers’ interests to be piqued.
So what is going on here ? The use of LED therapy to treat skin conditions is a hot topic. Various studies have shown that red and blue LEDs can offer anti-inflammatory benefits to some of the symptoms of acne and rosacea. The display on the iPhone is a LED display. The makers of this phone application want us to make the leap of faith that because the iPhone can display colors that are thought to be helpful, LED therapy is literally just a phone call away.
Dr. Pariser, president of the AAD says that the output from the iPhone would need to increase a thousands times to match treatments available from professional LED treatments.
Can You Treat Acne With an iPhone App?
AcneApp Promises to Clear Skin With Light Therapy; Dermatologists Express Doubts
By Kathleen Doheny, WebMD Health News. Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD
Feb. 12, 2010 — iPhone users love their apps, so it’s no surprise that AcneApp, a light-based therapy, is drawing interest from the blemish-prone who like the concept of zapping zits while talking to friends.
It’s supposed to work like this: Download the application and hold the phone to the skin so the light therapy can do its work. Multitask if you wish, remembering to switch sides so your entire face gets the treatment.
But more than four months after its release, there are still no clinical studies proving it works. Other dermatologists express doubt it could help, and users are giving it mixed reviews — from terrific to skeptical.
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Though the wavelength of light used in the AcneApp is similar to that used in office-based light treatments, the intensity of the light used by dermatologists "is at least thousands of times greater," agrees David Pariser, MD, a Norfolk, Va., dermatologist and president of the American Academy of Dermatology. "I would be very surprised if there is enough intensity of the light [from AcneApp] to make any difference."
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So aside from wasting $1.99 and still coping with zits, is there any potential harm?
Yes, Rahimi says. "I am worried about the patient with deep cystic acne and open, draining sores that uses this app." Bacteria on the phone could lead to a skin infection, he says.
The application is available from the iTunes Store: AcneApp, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
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March 8th, 2010, by David Pascoe | in the news
Galderma is a large multinational pharmaceutical company. They don’t have much in the way of internet blogs and online chatter so it is hard to get a feel for what makes them tick. In recent years Galderma has become the heavyweight of dermatology, especially in rosacea treatments.
The program list from the recent AAD meeting in Florida gives an idea of where Galderma are concentrating their promotional efforts.
Let us start with the list of advertisers ;
You can see that Galderma is far and away the most prominent advertiser.
Many won’t have seen these advertisements, so here we are, a snapshot of the sorts of marketing material that Galderma is using to target practitioners. In the handouts each prescription product is normally accompanied by a second page comprising the mandatory prescribing information.
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Oracea
Oracea is promoted as a `direction’ that is a `Power Change for the Journey Ahead’. The advertisement is highlighting the low incidence of side effects, a similar efficacy to 100mg doxycycline and a reduction in lesions in as little as 4 weeks. Using words like journey and `better tomorrow’ and mentioning that no side effects were seen in 9 months suggests that Oracea is seen as a long term prescription.
Oracea has been earned marketing awards in the past. In September 2009 we learnt that Oracea is worth $104m a year.
Metrogel 1%
Tagline: In the world of rosacea sufferers, it all comes back to the one.
When the patent on Metrogel expired, other companies have been free to market their own generic metronidazole. Galderma then launched a modified version of metrogel, increasing the concentration of metronidazole from 0.75% to 1%. The formulation was `enhanced with HSA-3 and niacinamide. HSA-3 is described as a combination of ingredients including betadex, niacinamide (vitamin B3), and propylene glycol.”
Cetaphil
Tagline: Essential for a balanced diet for healthy skin. and Every Body Benefits.
Galderma here are promoting what it sees as a non-irritating cleanser, fragrance-free moisturizer, being non-greasy and non-comedogenic and being ideal for face, hands and body.
Sponsorships
Galderma is one of the major sponsors of the National Rosacea Society. You can see from the NRS web site, Galderma’s donations enable the NRS to conduct their educational program.
Other Products
Of course Galderma is also developing a product dubbed sansrosa, it calls CD07805/47. If and when this product comes to market, Galderma’s rosacea portfolio will be even more impressive.
So What ?
OK so this is all interesting, but what would you like to see from Galderma ? How would you like to see the deepest pockets in the industry spend their research, development and promotional dollars ?
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