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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Cosmic Cosmetics

*Interesting item from space.com's "Astronotes" (in column format; must copy and paste):

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September 24

Cool Cosmetics

It’s a space spinoff that you can meet face-to-face.

An advanced simulation tool for super-fast cooling, utilized in Europe’s Ariane launcher program, has been tapped to create a new skincare product: “Ice Source®”.

The advanced simulation code used to simulate the operation of the Ariane rocket engines was adopted by Thermagen, the company behind the innovation.

"The combination of the ultra-fast cooling with a special set of skincare ingredients, including a rare extract of Arctic raspberry, provides an immediate lifting effect when applied on the skin,” explains Fadi Khairallah, founder of Thermagen.

Thermagen and its partners Cosnessens and Eurosphere presented the skin care product in a special launching event earlier this week in Paris.

“Improving the efficiency of cosmetics is definitely not the most obvious use of our technology from spacecraft launchers, but after more than 200 transfers of space technologies, I have learned that space can provide the most astonishing solutions to everyday life on Earth," says Pierre Brisson, Head of the European Space Agency’s Technology Transfer and Promotion Office.

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--Cindy

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C M Edwards

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From: Lake Charles LA USA

Registered: 2002-04-29

Posts: 1,012

Re: Cosmic Cosmetics

Is that related to those new over the counter "flash freeze" wart removers?   

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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Cosmic Cosmetics

Is that related to those new over the counter "flash freeze" wart removers?   

:laugh: 

That's a good question!  I don't know.

...teehee... 

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Shaun Barrett

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From: Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Registered: 2001-12-28

Posts: 2,843

Re: Cosmic Cosmetics

Any danger of 'flash freezing' your nose right off?!!         :laugh:

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