If you are interested in researching a little about skin care and skin health it won’t be long before you start to read about the role of keratin in maintaining your skins health. But what is keratin?

You can find keratin in many parts of our bodies. It is a very strong protein that can be found in parts of our bodies like our hair and nails, and our skin.

Keratin is formed by cells called keratinocytes and is found mainly in the epidermis of our skin, and they will slowly make their way to the surface of the skin where they form a protective layer of dead skin cells which are slowly lost over time.

There are some important roles that keratin performs in our skin, including providing some skin waterproofing. But in particular it provides skin elasticity and skin strength.

Our skin needs these qualities and as it ages it starts to lose some keratin and so lose some strength and elasticity.

So you would be accurate in assuming that if you use skin care products with keratin in them you are restoring your stores of skin keratin and thereby improving your skin strength and elasticity right? Wrong.

The reason is that the process used to produce the keratin found in mainstream skin care products is a process using heat and acid, and this “denaturalizes” the keratin into a form that is of no use to the skin.

So what is functional keratin? This is keratin that is extracted from the wool of sheep without using heat or acid, and so it is not denaturalized. It is functional in the sense that it is still in a form that is available for the skin to use.

It is only recently that this process has been perfected by one small company that makes it and has patented it. It is put into a product called Cynergy TK that is used only in the worlds very best skincare products.

Studies on the effectiveness of products containing Cynergy TK have shown visible improvements in fine lines and wrinkles on the skin and an improvement in skin complexion.

You can get skin care products that contain Cynergy TK. Cynergy TK is very expensive, but the products containing it aren’t any more expensive than the mainstream skin care products because the company that makes them doesn’t advertise so saves huge amounts of it’s budget, and puts this back into product quality.

You’ll find that the big brand mainstream anti aging products are priced to factor in all that advertising.

So now you know more about keratin and what it does in the skin, and about what funtional keratin is.

Find out more about Cynergy TK at my website.

Want to know more about Functional Keratin or find products containing Cynergy TK? Visit Peter’s Website Natural Health-Natural Skin Care.