All About Our Second Generation Formulas
Our Updated Formulas are available NOW!
We have been preparing you for the release of our second-generation formulas...and now is that time.
This is our official notification that Spectrum Sciences’ new and improved formulations for every transdermal product we offer are now available for purchase.
Our new formulations feature:
- Increased stability (to temperature fluctuations, oxidation, and pH drift)
- Improved skin tolerance for sensitive or dry skin
- Enhanced release profiles for sustained absorption
We set out with the intentions of improving these characteristics of the original formulas. This led to several months of research, testing, and human trials before finalizing our ingredients and processes.
These formulas are tough as nails. Included in the physical testing process was repeatedly subjecting each formula to extreme temperatures and harsh physical factors designed to simulate more negligent transport and storage conditions. Only the most stable formulas were selected for human trials.
Yet gentle on skin. Each product is formulated to be skin-friendly with ingredients like squalane, rosemary extract, and vitamin E to deeply hydrate, nourish, and replenish the skin’s natural moisture barrier. All of this is accomplished while maximizing cumulative systemic absorption over a longer duration of time.
And making safety a top priority. Our updated formulas consist of a carefully selected list of ingredients that work in tandem as part of a nuanced mechanism of transdermal absorption.
Every ingredient that we use is time-tested in topical products and considered safe for daily use on skin. In fact, each product can boast that over 75% of what’s in the bottle consists of Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) ingredients for use in food products, and over half of what’s in all of our bottles consist of ingredients that are ECOCERT Certified and COSMOS Approved.
NONE of our ingredients have been shown to cause cancer when applied topically.
- None of our ingredients are classified as carcinogens by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), National Toxicology Program (NTP), or FDA for topical use.
- All included ingredients are deemed safe as used in topical products, with negative Ames tests (mutagenicity) and no genotoxic or carcinogenic effects in dermal/oral toxicity studies.
- Several of our ingredients, such as rosemary extract, tocopherol (vitamin E), squalane, and amino acids (glutamic acid, arginine, carnitine) are antioxidants or skin-identical compounds with protective effects against oxidative stress (a cancer risk factor); no topical cancer links exist and may actually confer some protection in that context.
- The Environmental Working Group (EWG) lists low cancer concern ratings (1-2/10) across the board for topical exposure; no evidence of tumor promotion or initiation in skin models.
These ingredients are widely used in FDA-approved cosmetics and pharmaceuticals due to their established safety profiles and low irritation potential. We source the highest available purity in our ingredients to make sure you are getting a superior quality product.
We know that you are purchasing our products for your family's health and well-being and took every precaution to ensure that the benefits are measurable and the risks are minimal.
Click here for a detailed product ingredient breakdown.
Together, these improvements have made our formulations more suitable for sensitive skin types, while improving overall quality and effectiveness.
This reformulation process came at a significant expense, but we believe you truly deserve the best we have to offer and stopped at nothing to make that happen.
We hope you are as excited about this change as we are. We’re confident that once you try the second-generation formulas, you will be very happy with the change.
