A Cycle of Depletion, Balance, and Repair:
There are 21 minerals in skin cells. With age, environmental conditions, and biological ailments, these minerals are depleted. This mineral deficiency must be replenished in order to promote the skin cells' natural repair mechanisms.

Dead Sea Derivatives products work in conjunction with the body’s natural chemistry to saturate and penetrate the skin with more than 21 essential minerals and trace elements. Through reverse osmosis, the DSD mineral complex brings cells to their natural moisture balance and optimum health.

All minerals and trace elements in DSD are incorporated in their natural state which facilitates the absorption of minerals at the skin’s cellular level. This mineral complex is derived from the mineral springs of the Dead Sea which contain a full range of beneficial compounds.

The DSD Mineral Complex:

• Restores the skin’s natural moisture balance
• Repairs damaged skin
• Balances skin pH levels
• Inhibits the reproduction of malfunctioning cells while encouraging regenerative healing of healthy cells.

Dead Sea Derivatives products are developed based on proven dermatological research and manufactured with a GMP certificate in close proximity to the Dead Sea for absolute product reliability and effectiveness.

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The high concentrations of minerals in the Dead Sea has been shown to improve psoriasis and other skin ailments. Although the scientific basis for the Dead Sea water's therapeutic effects is simply the regulation of epidermal cell equilibrium through osmosis, many studies are underway that will more thoroughly explain these therapeutic effects.

German studies have indicated that high salt concentrations decrease the mitotic rate of mouse epidermal cells. Since psoriasis and other skin ailments involve abnormally regulated metabolic pathways comprising the arachidonic acid, polyamine, and cyclic nucleotide pathways, certain minerals may play an important role as enzymatic cofactors or regulators of epidermal proliferation.

Finally, bathing in the Dead Sea results in complete elimination of all resident body flora including yeast, which plays role in psoriasis and and seborrheic dermatitis.

The following are excerpts from the original study and is available upon request. More than twenty years ago, Dr. Ernest Braun, a scientist from Vienna who dedicated many years of intensive research into the mystery of psoriasis, while touring the Dead Sea area, became fascinated with the wide variety of properties of the hypothermal Dead Sea springs. A chemical analysis revealed that the waters gushing from the earth at the natural temperature of 41.5 degrees Celsius were indeed saturated with

an unprecedented wealth of a complex of minerals in their natural state. They include chloride, bromine, iodine, carbonic acid, sulphates, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, traces of gold, lithium, strontium, and a host of others.

Now the scientist set for himself a goal which he pursued with tenacity: the incorporation of all these minerals and chemical properties, in their natural state, into a topical preparation, highly aesthetic, and one that would be acceptable to the most fastidious patient. He named the drug like compound DSD, which is short for Dead Sea Derivatives.

In 1973, after five years of laboratory work, Dr. B. Finkler, an American member of the Board of Dermatology, practicing in Israel, described the successful treatment with DSD in a series of 28 patients. The diagnosis in each case was psoriasis vulgaris. That study was published in September 1974 in the United States.

The study was sponsored by the department of dermatology at Stanford University School of Medicine, at Hadassah University Hospital, and presented by the two famous dermatologists, Professor A. Krakovsky & Professor S. Brenner DSD in topical therapy for actinic dry skin.

The results of this experiment were so startling and impressive that we proceeded with stage three: the double-blind study. 31 patients, all women, aged from 34 to 76 years, suffering from mild dry skin symptoms to extremely dry sun-damaged skin were selected.

One side of the body was treated for one week with DSD cream, while the other side was treated with the base. Blue tubes for DSD and pink tubes for the control. Two physicians and the patient herself were asked to qualify the results of each side. The great majority of the patients, 26 out of 31, stated the DSD-treated side had improved. The five remaining patients did not find a difference between the two sides. In the judgment of the physicians, 20 patients (two-thirds) showed significantly greater improvement with DSD. In seven cases no difference could be noted, and in 4 cases the control appeared better. It was the impression of both doctors and patients that the treatment did not produce a shiny or oily skin-surface.

 It was never disturbing to the patients and aesthetically acceptable. On the DSD side the skin was smoother, less wrinkled, and softer. In a series of only thirty-one patients the results are impressive. It is also noteworthy that this rather subjective assessment is fortified by the fact that months after the conclusion of the investigation, all patients and users of DSD, practically without exception, were still pleading for more of the preparation, which was not yet commercially available.

As a treatment, DSD proved to be of remarkable value. Effective and safe, DSD embodies the whole range of Dead Sea minerals. It uses nature's own palliative in the service of health and beauty.

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