Each kit is enough for 4 fl oz of cream, lotion, or serum at approximately 0.0001% concentration (100 mcg in 120 mL cream). Use in your favorite cream or add to our Canvas Base Cream or a Sea Kelp Bioferment base. Mix thoroughly, but gently. Vigorous mixing will decrease the activity level of the KGF.

SOD is kept highly concentrated to preserve its activity, therefore you will hardly see the SOD drop at the bottom of the small tube. Store the SOD in the refrigerator until you are ready to use it. When ready to use, add the contents of the second tube (saline solution) to the tube containing SOD and close. Mix by inverting and straightening the tube several times. The SOD is now ready for addition to your cream, lotion, or serum. Do not be tempted to use it more concentrated than recommended. A growth factor is similar to a hormone: very little (it is measured in micrograms, one millionth of a gram) will go a very long way.

Superoxide radicals are formed in a number of metabolic reactions, including lipid peroxidation initiated by light or metal ions. This process is the cause of rancidity of oils, but it also happens in live tissues and may be a cause of cancer, inflammatory diseases, atherosclerosis, aging, and others.

One of the reasons that superoxide radicals are so dangerous is because they start chain reactions where more and more free radicals are formed, reacting with all cell constituents and wreaking havoc wherever they go. In the human body, the main chain breaking antioxidants are the water soluble Superoxide Dismutase (SOD) and the lipid soluble alpha-D-Tocopherol (vitamin E). SOD is a particularly stable enzyme that converts the destructive superoxide radical into a less dangerous form, hydrogen peroxide (which will, in turn, be converted into water and normal oxygen by the enzyme catalase).

This is one the specialty proteins (see also EGF and KGF) made by Skin Actives Scientific using biotechnology.  Biotechnology is a short name for an array of sophisticated methods that allow scientists to make large amounts of a single protein, nearly pure and fully active, at a fraction of the cost of extracting it from the original source material. Please note that our growth factors are sold for use in cosmetics only.

Please ask us about wholesale pricing as well as custom protein development.