One of the things that is big in beauty is trying to figure out the best way to capitalize on advancements in medicine. This is because there are often treatments that can have multiple uses depending on their form. Chemical compounds are particularly known for this kind of utility, but there are occasionally other options as well. Stem cells have become an increasingly hot topic in the world due to their potential applications when it comes health. The promise exists of being able to find ways to grow new organs, cure anyone suffering from paralysis, and various other applications that seem more science fiction than science fact. They are true avenues of research and even real technologies though. People are beginning to seek ways to utilizing stem cells in beauty as a form of intervention. We’re going to look at some of the more talked about options available today and their viability.

What’s The Source?
The most commonly available interventions are in the form of over-the-counter products. Plenty of products are appearing on shelves that claim to be derived from stem cells in one way or another. They tend to have bold claims about their potential for boosting beauty that vary from company to company. There is a small problem though: most of the time the cells are derived from plants. Plant stem cells quite literally cannot interact topically with your body in any meaningful way. As a result, many companies who end up overselling their products are running afoul of government agencies highlighting the inaccuracy of their various claims. This is a big warning sign for one of the most common ways that stem cells are currently being used in beauty. However, there are products out there that claim to be utilizing cell cultures derived from unfertilized human cells.

Your Skin Does What It Does
Human-derived stem cells are actually the ones that can potentially impact your body in some fashion. They are recognizable by your body and can react to instructions properly unlike plant cells. The downside is that most over-the-counter products are purely topical. Your skin is designed to keep things out of your body as a sort of filter. It is why so many products are designed to penetrate your skin. They can do this because they are smaller than the size of cells. As a result, even products claiming to use human-derived stem cells are less than viable. They would not be able to penetrate your skin properly. Companies get around this by claiming they have found a way to treat or extract the appropriate components from within the cell, but the claims remain relatively dubious. You can’t really trust any over-the-counter products that claim to use stem cells as a result of this. They might help your skin, but it won’t be because you’re applying stem cells topically.

A Pinprick
There are also treatments being offered in some places of the world that involve the injection of stem cells into particular areas of the body to have an ostensible effect. Some of them involve claiming that they can help boost the skin in particular areas to repair itself better by “renewing” the cells in the area. Almost all reputable professionals have repudiated these claims. Injecting undifferentiated stem cells into an area is, at best harmless, and at worst can potentially lay the foundation for later issues. Using stem cells in medical science is still in its infancy even as more and more technology is turning up from it. Using it in beauty is even further removed from current potential. As a result, you should try to avoid anyone claiming stem cell injections will help your appearance. Talk to your dermatologist about more reputable treatments to ensure your overall health.

Stem cells do hold a lot of promise in both medicine, but their potential in beauty is still a long way off. There’s now way to easily get around this either. We need to figure out better ways to tell the stem cells what is desired before injecting them could potentially have a reliable and safe effect. Your skin is too good at its job to allow topical stem cells to do much of anything too. As a result, there is no way to reliably support any current stem cell beauty interventions.