About Botox know everything. However, there are some facts about him that you're surprised, and will be something to talk about with friends.
Specially collected a couple of interesting facts about it for you.
fact №1. The cost of a kilogram of pure botulinum toxin is 150 Bln. dollars! You just think about those numbers! If translated into rubles (at the rate of 63 rubles), we get 9450 Bln. rubles (That is, almost nine and a half trillion rubles!).
For spravochki: State budget revenues in 2017 were 15 089 billion. rubles. These revenues would be enough to buy 1 kg and 600 grams of pure botulinum toxin!
Now, I hope you understand that injected Botox is negligible, because the high concentration of the toxin will cost a very, very expensive as a clinic, and even more so - to the client.
Botulinum toxin is the second substance in the world most expensive. Expensive its only growth hormone.
fact №2. Despite the fact that Botox each year by more than one million people worldwide, produces toxins size of a tablet of paracetamol per year. Many missing and drugs, and to all the world's beauty clinic.
№3 fact. Botulinum toxin used in the past as a biological weapon. And, perhaps, a kilogram of the toxin would be enough to destroy humanity in the course of three days. There is a version that has been poisoned with botulinum toxin Deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Reinhard Heydrich. The substance is so dangerous that in 1971 the UN General Assembly immediately approved the Convention on the prohibition and destruction of all toxic weapons. Now, botulinum toxin is used in beauty. Well, we know that beauty - it is also a weapon ;-)
№4 fact. Botulinum toxin is produced from the bacteria, we almost daily in contact. They are in the soil, in many products (even honey). Half of them die after heat treatment (usual half-hour boiling), with the other half easily manages our body.
By the way, if you have a friend who is obsessed with all natural (in cosmetics, even though it lies, products, etc.), frighten her this fact. Let zaguglit bacterium Clostridium botulinum and was surprised at how dangerous and frequently encountered in the life of comrade.
You can even shock the familiar men: even when guests were not perfect, people are poisoned with botulinum toxin, which was contained in cans, sausage and even moonshine.
№5 fact. bacteria Clostridium botulinum, from which the Botox was found by chance in the sausage.
Hopefully, after reading the article, none of you will rub yourself overdue sausage forehead to get rid of wrinkles :-)
№6 fact. For 15 years, the use of botulinum toxin in cosmetics has not been a single case of death from Botox injections. However from it, on average die each year 10 people for poisoning spoiled food.
№7 fact. In Russia, the drug Dysport botulinum toxin (one of the coolest in the world, by the way) was registered in 1999. So that our experts work with him for a long time, and about the appropriate dosage, the use of security know by heart.
№8 fact. In neurology it is used in high doses in excess of 10 times than in aesthetic medicine. However, for some strange reason people are afraid of botox in beautician's office.
It is unfortunate that we have invented horror stories spread more actively than positive information on substances used in cosmetics and cosmetology. Anyway :-)
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