Plazan Natural Skin Care Products: The Power of Cosmetic Placenta

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Tried and tested the best beauty products...

"Pick up any magazine and you will find reams of information on the latest products. It's helpful but limited. We wanted to take things a step further. So we asked ten women, myself included, to test moisturisers, eye creams and anti-aging creams.... We took the task seriously and dutifully used the moisturisers, eye creams and anti-aging creams over six weeks before giving our final verdict."

Plazan Collagen Cream, € 47.90
Effectiveness: My skin felt more taut and looked less sluggish.
Value for money: Considering what I spend on Crème de la Mer products, this is definitely a bargain.
Score: 9

Plazan Eye Cream, € 49.60
Ease of use: A dream to put on.
Effectiveness: I was amazing, particularly after a late night or long haul journey when the skin can be puffy. It immediately tightened up my skin. I used it on the models on a recent shoot I did in the US. We had all traveled from Ireland and the ingredients in the Plazan products (cell extracts from placental tissue) were miraculous.
Value for money: Excellent.
Score: 10

"...All in all, we road-tested 75 products, balancing low with high prices."

Aveda Creme Hydratante, €47
Score: 8
Clinique Rich Face Cream Super Defence, €52
Score: 9
Clinique All About Eyes Rich, €32
Score: 8
L´Oreal wrinkle decrease eye cream, €11.70
Score: 7
MAC Studio Moisture Fix SPF 15, €29.50
Score: 8
Px Prescriptives skin-brightening cream moisturiser, Vibrant C, €57
Score: 2
Px Prescriptives Vibrant C Skin-brightening eye cream, €42
Score: 6
Sisley eye and lip contour complex cream, €102
Score: 6

"Face forward", Danielle Murphy

Plazan: extensive range of beauty-care products...

PLAZAN: This scientifically-developed range, created by Alexander Zimnitskiy, a doctor of biological sciences, includes the Diamond Series, and forms just a small part of their extensive range of beauty care products, from breast cream to hair care all containing placenta cells. The series is suited to more mature, normal and dry skins and comprises Day Cream Maximum, Night Cream Maximum and Evening Cream Maximum (£60 for the set), which stimulates cell functions and has a mild lifting and brightening effect on the skin. Apparently J.Lo uses their face mask. Check out their web site to view other interesting products. www.plazancosmetics.com

"Looking good with Ilia Georgiou", Seven Magazine

She noticed her scars looked better...

It would be impossible to estimate how many new beauty products will hit stores in the next few months. Some will be bunk, but others will be real breakthroughs. SELF sifted through the lot to bring you the truly promising discoveries: first-of-their-kind ingredients, powerful new treatments and advances in skin, hair and soul care. Some of these innovations you can try today. Others may be months away - but they're worth waiting for. You can bet your makeup bag on it.

Smoother skin through human what?! Although you may have heard of placenta products, incorporating human placenta components into face creams and masks is a new twist.

Sound too gross to be good?! Not to everyone. When her face was scarred in a kitchen accident, Russian model Ludmila Llich began using a human placenta-rich cream developed by a Russian space research laboratory to treat burned astronauts. 'My doctors said I'd always have marks and discoloration because the tissue damage was so deep', says Llich. But after applying the cream every day for a month, she noticed her scars looked better. It appeared that the placenta – rich in biologically active ingredients, including antioxidants, proteins and amino acids – was rejuvenating her skin, something it does for the non-scared as well. Don't worry, there's nothing sinister about the source: they're collected form volunteer donors (after they've given birth to healthy babies).

"Second Annual Report: Beauty Breakthroughs" by Elizabeth Graves, Self Magazine

Cosmetic Placenta: The lines are just staying away!

TREND: Beautifiers that use parts of human or animal placenta to rejuvenate skin are coming out of the closet.

HOW IT STARTED: Cosmetic companies bought into the organ's healing power decades ago, but few advertise its use.

JUDGMENT CALL: Gross, but would you rather have your facial muscles paralyzed with Botox?

Cosmetic companies usually love to trumpet their "miracle" ingredients. But placenta - the embryonic tissue formed in pregnant mammals and used for decades as a wrinkle reducer - is one beautifier that has long been kept under wraps. That may be changing: a 59-year-old aesthetician in Beverly Hills, Calif., says she gave up Botox injections a month after she started using the skin smoother. "The lines are just staying away," she says.

Dozens of cosmetic companies have informed the FDA of their use of human placenta, but most have been afraid to advertise it because consumers are squeamish about the substance as well as its source. Mila is supplied by Russian maternity wards, but Shiseido is very secretive about the placental extract in its popular Revitalizing Cream; the Japanese company won't even say what kind of animal it comes from. Progressive Beauty Brands executive David Blum admits his Placenta Plus products sell best overseas and in Hispanic communities, "where there's less resistance to the word placenta."

"Trend Alert: Cosmetic Placenta" by Julie Rawe, Time Magazine

Plazan: In many ways this is the future...

A big part of Garcia's research includes traveling to other countries. Dr. Oz Garcia, the worlds leading health and beauty nutritionist, says that in Russia and parts of Europe, especially Germany and Switzerland, there are anti-aging therapies, such as the use of animal stem cells, that have no comparable approach in America. "I think the Russians are way out in front in this field," says Garcia. "They're already using - get this - human stem cell extracts reduced from human umbilical cords and placenta that have been refined and are currently being used both inside and outside Russia. In many ways this is the future. In my travels through Russia I met the leading Plazan researchers, the work they're doing in life extension takes your breath away".

Dr. Oz Garcia

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