Anti-Cancer Drug Has Anti-Aging Effects
June 18, 2009 by Aly Walansky
Filed under Bath and Body, Product Reviews, Skin Care
Talk about a dual purpose cosmetic!
Ontonio’s EON magazine reports today that Flouroracil (sold under the brand name Efudex), a popular drug used in chemotherapy, has been showed to have super-potent results in reducing wrinkles!
A study published by the Archives of Dermatology, revealed that this product was basically well-tolerated by most participants, all of whom had a condition known as actinic keratoses (precancerous lesions due to sun damage). After two months, there were reported differences in facial wrinkle reduction, ranging from “mild” to “much” improvement. 75% of the subjects expressed significant satisfaction with the product which contained 5% flouroracil as a skin cream.
These are crazy awesome results, even for a product that was meant to be a skin cream! The product is right now only available by prescription, and is still considered medicine, so it may be a little hard to come by – but how cool is that???
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