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Over 50 years ago a pharmacist from New Jersey by the name of Louis Bender decided
to develop a therapeutic skin cream to help the many customers that frequented his
pharmacy with damaged skin caused by the ravages of radiation, dialysis and other
aggressive treatments as well as others that were bed ridden. To be effective it
had to reduce inflammation, itching and burning quickly without being greasy. Instead
of employing the formulation methods of the day which used oils and extracts from
fruits and vegetable and derivatives of petroleum he decided to formulate the cream
utilizing the principals of hydration set forth by Master Dermatologist Dr. Alfred
Kligman, who today is considered the Father of Dermatology. An effective therapeutic
moisturizing cream was produced and sold regionally for 25 years.
About a year and a half ago during a phone conversation with my good friend and
business partner Martin Bender, he mentioned his father’s development of that therapeutic
cream many years ago. This really peaked my interest, so I asked him if he still
had any samples and the original formulas and if so to send me some. When we opened
a 35 year old jar rather than finding a dried out, cracked and discolored product,
we found it to be creamy, white and smooth as if it was made the day before. Rather
amazing don’t you think? As a matter of fact that was the first of a number of amazing
things I learned about the properties of this product.
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