This product will increase skin elasticity and is the perfect compliment to our Cellulite Cream, and can also be followed by the application of our Pumpkin Peel.

L-Carnitine and derivatives like acetyl carnitine, carry activated fatty acids through the mostly impermeable inner mitochondrial membrane, allowing the respiration of fatty acids. The activated fatty acid (Acyl-CoA) can not pass through the membrane, but there is a special translocator for Acyl-carnitine. Once carnitine releases the fatty acid it carries (a process involving a tranferase), carnitine can go out again and take up another activated fatty acid. L-carnitine is a derivative of the amino acid lysine, and it is named after the material from which it was first isolated in 1905, meat (carnus in Latin). It was first believed to be a vitamin, and called vitamin BT, but humans can synthesize L-carnitine, making it a "conditionally essential nutrient". Under certain conditions and depending on the diet, the demand for L-carnitine may exceed an individual's capacity to synthesize it.

Each tube is enough for 4 fl oz of cream or lotion at approximately 5% concentration (5 g in 120 mL cream). Use in your favorite cream or add to our Canvas Base Cream or a Sea Kelp Bioferment base. Massage deeply after application until product is absorbed.

Shigenaga, Mark K.; Hagen, Tory M.; Ames, Bruce N Oxidative damage and mitochondrial decay in aging (1994) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 91(23), 10771-8.

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