New Technology
All Cata Naturals creams are based on natural healing
oils, herbal extracts, and natural biological active
ingredients and have been manufactured using new
Transdermal Technology, patented in the U.S.A.
(US Patent # 5,393,461 Feb.28, 1995 Preparation of
Stable Aqueous Emulsion of Water-Insoluble Particles .)
The Transdermal Technology is going to completely
change our world.
To understand the specific properties
of the new technology based on natural substances
please compare our Transdermal Technology with the
technology based on chemical substances.
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Technology Based On Chemical Substances
Today, most manufacturers of beauty and medicinal
products for topical application claim that their
products are based on natural active ingredients and,
therefore, have biological activity. In reality,
these products have low biological activity since
they contain waxes, mineral oils, ionic chemical
surfactants, preservatives, thickeners, polymeric
gel-(or emulsion) formation and other polymeric materials.
These materials actually block pores on the skin and block
active centers of natural active ingredients,
thereby significantly lowering the effectiveness of
the natural active ingredients in the products.
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Why do companies do this?
The reasons are:
chemical substances are inexpensive
the technology of manufacturing these products is simple
(H.E. Junginger Multiphase Emulsion in Surfactants in
Cosmetics, Vol.68, Marcel Dekker, 1997).
However, many chemical substances cause adverse
side effects. Furthermore, the technology used
to manufacture these chemical substances is
inexpensive and can be realized easily because
it does not require strong control of thermodynamic
parameters to produce stable products.
Technology Based On Natural Substances
To increase biological activities, the natural products
manufactured using this technology have complex structural
elements of colloidal dimensions that form a
three-dimensional network within the system.
They are responsible for the products dermatological
properties such as feel, spread ability, penetration
through skin, cooling/warming effects,
and their possible interactions with skin lipids.
This formation during the manufacturing process requires
special control of temperature, mixing speed, and shear
rates.
We have developed a new technology
which allows us to produce water-soluble products in
form of a triple emulsion/suspension system.
The triple emulsion (i.e. Water-1/Oil/Water-2 or W-1/O/W-2
emulsion) is the aqueous dispersed phase (Water -1 or W-1)
with oil (Oil or O) globules in which the
water globules (Water-2 or W-2) are dispersed.
The solid part of the natural products consists of fine
particles (size less 0.1 micron) of microencapsulated sulfur,
zinc oxide, etc.
All Cata Naturals products are based on the natural substances
(such as natural non-ionic surfactants, natural preservatives,
natural thickeners, natural unsaturated oils, and etc.) that
have been manufactured using our new US Patented technology.
The stable water-soluble triple emulsion/suspension system
using this technology can be made in 4-steps.
Each technological step of a process for production stable
triple emulsion/suspension (shelf-life of 3 or more years)
can be realized only for a narrow range of thermodynamic
parameters (such as active ingredients and surfactants
concentrations, temperature, shear rate of homogenization
and rate of temperature reduction, and etc.). Therefore,
manufacturing of the product requires accurate control of
all thermodynamic parameters during the whole process.
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Technology Specifics
Modern science has rediscovered many natural ingredients
(known for ages by our ancestry), which have advanced
the medical arts and offered more healing possibilities.
However, the technology of administration (oral ingestion)
remained mostly the same till now. One well established,
yet incompletely developed delivery mode has been topical
creams and lotions, primarily utilized in cosmetic applications.
The great barrier to wider application of such a pathway
has been the structure of the skin itself, which has proven
impermeable to a wide range of compounds, most notably the
class of molecules know as "water soluble". This limitation
has so strongly influenced perception of range restriction
of compound delivery across the skin.
But now, through the research this border has been
unlocked and opened to transdermal traffic of virtually
all medicinal compounds.
But just how is this accomplished?
The mechanics of our Patented invention allows to
create a triple emulsion that creates an unusually stable
matrix into which nutrient compounds can be fed.
The emulsion was named "Liquid Crystal". This refers to
the creation, through the "microencapsulation" of molecules
of the active ingredients in the emulsion, of actual liquid
crystals in a state of stable suspension.
This special physical configuration has the effect of
making large molecules behave, in relation to the skin
barrier, as though they are "smaller", and allowed to
cross what would otherwise prevent penetration.
Sort of a chemical version of having a friend who is a member
of an exclusive club getting you, a non-member, admitted to
its premises.
But what is the significance in terms of the medical
value of such an invention? What does such an invention do for you?
An important aspect of this technology is the efficiency
factor. Active ingredients can target the problem areas
directly instead of going through digestive system, as
oral medication, loosing more than 75% of its strength
in the process. In other words, "Liquid Crystal" allows
for great reduction in dose levels of any given substance
compared to oral titration.
Reduction of excess compounds of
any kind, even biologically "benign" compounds, is
always the
soundest medical approach, and becomes imperative
when any
substances that a person may have sensitivity to is being
administered. For people experiencing the excruciating pain,
the amount of time it takes for the medicine to start working
is also an important factor. This amount of time is shorten by
topical administration, since the medicine is applied right to
the problem area instead of going through the whole body.
Another advantage of "Liquid Crystal" emulsion is its
flexibility. For instance, many medicines must be taken
on an empty stomach, due to foodstuffs in the stomach
interfering with uptake.
Another scenario is that of people who experience side
effects ingesting certain compounds, among them vitamin C,
highly beneficial in many ways.
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