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Our mission is to improve the way you feel about your skin. We do this by providing skin care technologies underpinned by scientific reason and clinical research.
We make the following promises to our customers, which everyone working for Medik8 Skin Research adheres to as their primary objectives:
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Medik8
only uses and formulates proven technologies that
provide real skin benefits and Medik8 uses chirally
correct actives wherever possible.
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Medik8 products are
specifically designed to be suitable for people
with sensitive
skin without ever compromising
efficacy.
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We promise to use green
chemistry where it does not impact on Promise
2. Medik8 is the first ‘Green Cosmeceutical
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Despite the investment in premium raw material quality and generous research budgets, you can always trust Medik8 to deliver competitive pricing.
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Medik8 will only be supplied to dermatologists, cosmetic surgeons, specialist skincare doctors, medical clinicians, derma-pharmacists, qualified skincare professionals
and specialist skincare retailers – subject to Promise 6.
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Every authorised reseller must have a trained Medik8 consultant available at the point of purchase to answer customers’ skin care concerns and product queries.
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Medik8 will invest a fixed percentage of annual revenues in technology research.
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We respect our customers’ choice of Medik8 over the many other skincare brands available and accordingly, we sincerely value customer input, feedback and suggestions. |
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Results without the irritation.... ™
Most skin is sensitive, it is just to what degree that distinguishes it from others. A simple change of washing powder can demonstrate this. People of all ages and skin types can periodically suffer from sensitive skin, making them particularly susceptible to certain irritating cosmeceutical ingredients. In fact, those suffering from acne, rosacea or psoriasis usually have greater skin sensitivity, which can be exacerbated by some aggressive treatment products that they use.
Medik8 is a skin research company pioneering the cosmeceutical technology of providing products suitable for sensitive skin without compromising efficacy so they may be used by everyone. It is a myth that a product designed for sensitive skin would not be as effective just because it is less irritating. It was previously incorrectly assumed that aggressive products causing significant inflammation gave the best results (the idea being that aggressive products provoke a healing response) but current opinion, based on the latest research, is that excessive inflammation can damage cells causing long term skin damage and perversely causing premature skin ageing.
The challenge for Medik8 is to make effective ingredients less aggressive without reducing potency. We do this in many ways for example using film-encapsulation, chirally correct actives, non-acid derivatives and patented anti-erythema technologies. Of course, using any effective strength actives, for example retinols and fruit acids, will cause some stinging to even the toughest skins, but Medik8 pharmacologists have minimised the degree of irritation and in some cases made it absent all together. No longer are the most powerful and effective ingredients beyond the reach of people who want the gain without the pain! And who doesn’t want that?
Ask your skin care professional about what Medik8 can do for you.
PANGAEA LABORATORIES LTD. – THE OWNERS OF THE MEDIK8® BRAND
Elliot Isaacs established Pangaea as a cosmeceutical research and development centre and to hold the large amount of intellectual property rights garnished from research projects, sometimes in-house and sometimes by commissioning independant laboratories including on anti-erythema actives, broad-spectrum antioxidants and retinol film encapsulation. Pangaea has strategic relationships with similar firms around the EU and US to enable sharing of information and product licenses. This wide technology portfolio is all incorporated into Medik8.
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Elliot Isaacs
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Elliot Isaacs is the Founder and Medical Director of Medik8 Skin Research and graduate of The University of Leeds- Pharmacology and Physiology Department. With nearly 10 years in cosmeceutical formulation, he is honoured to have been accepted as a full member of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists, which celebrated its diamond jubilee in 2009.
From humble beginnings, Elliot had seen firsthand the rush for Retin-A® in his father's chemist shop when he was a small boy. This planted the seed early-on for developing a scientific skincare brand. |
In the late 1990’s his sister began to develop a skin redness that would not go away. One skin cream she used appeared to contain the right
anti-inflammatory actives but paradoxically seemed to be causing more irritation than it calmed. In between returning from 4 years of travelling in Asia and starting upon his yet undecided career, he decided to investigate this problem and see if he could make a better product using the small lab
in his father’s pharmacy.
Weeks turned to months and with the eventual success in calming his sister’s redness, the decision to get more involved in skincare and to manufacture this cream formula was taken. Several years passed satisfying regulatory steps until Medik8 launched Red Alert® in 2004. Now Medik8 has a full
anti-ageing range taking the philosophy of ‘results without the irritation’ to cleansers, antioxidants, lighteners, retinoids, hydroxy acids, peels and more.
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