Chirally Correct®

Luminoso Studios™ products are always Chirally Correct® - designed to work with your body's natural functions, not against them.

The word chiral comes from the Greek word kheir, which means hand. Notice that each of your hands is basically a mirror image of the other.

Molecules - the molecules that make up pharmaceuticals, for example - also have two sides. One side has positive, healthy effects on our bodies; the other side has negative, damaging effects.

Unfortunately, the scientific process of splitting apart the two sides of a molecule - called chiral separation - is expensive and complicated.

But the failure to separate the healthy side of molecules from the unhealthy side has tragic consequences, like the birth defects from Thalidomide 40 years ago.

But in the last 15 years, drug manufacturers have begun separating the two sides of each molecule to isolate the healthy side, and are even re-formulating old non-chiral drugs to improve their effectiveness and safety.

Just as chirality is important in pharmaceuticals, it's important in skin care as well. Let's look at Vitamin E, a common ingredient in skin care products, as an example. Vitamin E has three possible forms: the "D" form, the "L" form, and the racemic form (both "D" and "L"). Your body only utilizes the "D" form, D-alpha-tocopherol (the healthy side of the molecule). The "L" form, L-alpha-tocopherol, doesn't seem to have any purpose in our bodies, and the racemic form can cause allergic reactions.

Chirally Correct® means that Luminoso Studios™ only utilizes the "D" form of Vitamin E, eliminating the purposeless "L" form and avoiding the allergic reactions that can be caused by the racemic form.

Whether it's Vitamin E or any other ingredient, our Chirally Correct® stamp is Luminoso Studios™ promise to you that our skin care products are formulated based on a deep understanding of the roles and functions of each form of every ingredient we use.

To contact Luminoso Studios™, please give us a call at 800-408-1168 or e-mail us at sales@luminosostudios.com.