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Does it really work?

The legal answer can be found on the company's website, in smaller print:

'Lifeline Skin Care and its affiliates do not guarantee specific results. Results may vary.'

It's one of many cosmetic products to hit the market in recent years with claims of using human or plant-based stem cells to help restore the appearance of youth.

Many of these products - including this one - do moisturize and improve the appearance of skin, at least according to anecdotal evidence.

The question, experts say, is whether any improvement can be attributed to the stem cell science, a budding field of regenerative technology that's largely unproven by U.S. scientific standards.

'Stem cells that are in contact with skin are not really alive anymore,' said Margaret Foster Riley, a law professor and expert on food and drug law at the University of Virginia. 'So I don't really see how a stem cell product is working on the skin. I suppose some of them may actually work in a way that cosmetics work otherwise, because of moisturizing capability. But it's not stem cell capability that's working there to the degree we know how stem cells work.'

Much is unknown about how - or if - these ingredients work because cosmetic products in the USA aren't held to the same regulatory standards as new drugs. To gain approval for widespread use in this country, new drugs must show they are safe and effective based on data from long and expensive clinical trials.

By contrast, over-the-counter cosmetics generally aren't subject to this same pre-market approval. Companies just have to be careful about what they claim the products do. If they promise to change the structure or function of the body, that would make them a drug requiring pre-market testing.

In recent years, the FDA has sent warning letters to companies that go too far in making claims in this field. For example, Cell Vitals of Irvine, Calif., was marketing a product called 'ReLuma Advanced Stem Cell Facial Moisturizer' derived from human fat. The company said its product increased collagen and stimulated fibroblast cell growth, among other things, which made it a drug, according to the FDA.

The company's website is no longer working after the FDA sent it a warning letter in November.

Other cosmetic companies claim to use plant-based stem cells. In a strike against such competition, Lifeline Skincare notes that it uses stem cells derived from unfertilized human eggs, not plant stem cells. The company says it uses 'the same human stem cells that are active early in life to create new, young skin.'

'We haven't seen clinical studies to support or prove that human skin responds or relates to plant stem cells,' the company's website says.

Yet few have seen any rigorous studies to determine if human skin responds to human stem cell ingredients, either.

'Potions and lotions may in fact work really well, but at the end of the day, let's be data-driven, so the consumer doesn't have to worry about whether they think it might work,' said Stanford professor Michael Longaker, an expert in plastic surgery and regenerative medicine.

A spokeswoman for Lifeline Skin Care in California says independent studies have been conducted that show its stem cell ingredients to be effective. USA TODAY Sports asked the company for data from such studies but didn't receive any that proved whether the same lotion produced better results with the stem cell ingredient than without it.

The spokeswoman, Meghan Austin, conceded that if you 'put an actual human stem cell on the skin, it wouldn't do anything.' She said Lifeline instead extracts contents from the cells and processes them in a way that ensures they are absorbed and effective.

All cosmetic companies need to claim their products are effective in different ways. But it can be a fine line: Is it a drug, or is it a cosmetic? Riley said the FDA has been wrestling with that question since Congress passed the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act in 1938.

'If they are selling it as a cosmetic, it all depends on the claim they are making,' she said. 'These companies actually have pretty big legal departments, and the claims they will make are very carefully designed to thread the needle. They don't want to make a drug claim, but they obviously do want to make a claim so they can sell it and make a claim that it has an effect.'

The history and the development of these non-embryotic stem cells for the line intrigued me. The original goal for these researchers was to find a cure for Diabetes and Parkinson's disease. The scientists in an attempt to find a cure discovered a potent human stem cell extract that improved the look of aging skin, which then led them serendipitously to create a new type of anti-aging skin care products.

These scientists created the first non-embryonic human stem cells, which are stem cells that can thrive for an indefinite period of time. This discovery made finding cures for currently incurable diseases like Parkinson's disease, liver disease, and blindness look more promising and optimistic which was their original mission.

As for the skin, the largest and most visible human organ we have, these non-embryotic stem cells, also called human parthenogenetic stem cells, can target therapeutic tissues which can be used for research and regenerative therapies. The profits from the Lifeline Skin Care products also helps to fund and further research cures for liver disease, diseases of the eyes that are blinding, Parkinson's as well as other diseases of the nervous system.

The Lifeline Stem Cell Skincare products focus on the non-embryonic human stem cells that extract a combination of peptides, amino acids, and enzymes to help increase collagen and elastin, which naturally decrease as one ages and thus causes us to look older as time goes on.

From a psychological perspective, the younger we look and feel, the more optimistic and hopeful we tend to be about life and future options. I like the idea of feeling young, looking forever fabulous and most of all, being healthy. After using these products, seeing their effectiveness and knowing the company's commitment to eliminating debilitating diseases, I contacted them to see if there was any way we could work together. I wanted to collaborate with them on their mission, goals, and message.

Fortunately, Lifeline Skin Care found a way that we could all work together to help women and men look and feel their very best while the scientists from the parent company work towards eradicating illness by using their special non-embryotic stem cell technology. Beauty is more than skin-deep; beauty can be on a mission, too.