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    Foreskin for Clear Skin?

    By Julia Wallace Posted on 11.21.2008 18 Comments

    It sounds like just another uber-meltable cheese product, but Vavelta is actually miles away from anything you'd want to put in your mouth. It's a radical new treatment for facial pitting, scarring, and wrinkles made out of—what else?—newborns' foreskins. Foreskins have long been treasured by cosmetic dermatologists because they are rich in fibroblasts, tiny cells that play a crucial role in healing wounds and generating collagen and connective tissue.

    11.26.2008 at 12:51pm - Comment by treece

    I"m happy to see that this discussion is mostly anti circumcision. There are but three (3) reasons a male would ever need a circumcision: 1. Frostbite 2. Cancer 3. Gangrene Also, 85% of the entire world's males are intact. So, the circumcised American is realy a minority. It is outlawed in Finland and discussions about about outlawiing it are going on in Denmark. I am fine with America outlawing it.

  • Science

    Foreskin for Clear Skin?

    By Julia Wallace Posted on 11.21.2008 18 Comments

    It sounds like just another uber-meltable cheese product, but Vavelta is actually miles away from anything you'd want to put in your mouth. It's a radical new treatment for facial pitting, scarring, and wrinkles made out of—what else?—newborns' foreskins. Foreskins have long been treasured by cosmetic dermatologists because they are rich in fibroblasts, tiny cells that play a crucial role in healing wounds and generating collagen and connective tissue.

    11.24.2008 at 02:53pm - Comment by treece

    This product wouldn't even exist if the foreskin where that of girls' clitoral hoods. It's very sad that in this country (USA) boys are not guarenteed the basic human right of genital integrity as girls are. Had bkdude been a girl with a similar problem, the doctors would have explored alternatives to cutting away genitalia. However, since he is a boy, I'm willing to bet that the only suggestion made to his parents was to cut off the most sensitive part of his penis. bkdude, I really feel for guys who were circumcised, and you are no different. I hope that before you decide to have your children circumcised that you research it a little and ask a few in depth questions. Like for starters your diagnosis. Please also realise that an 8 y/o and a newborn are treated totally different by the circumciser. You were most likely put to sleep where as most newborns aren't given ample anesthesia. If you felt pain afterwards, you could voice that. Back on topic, this is a dispecable product.



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