copper peptide and treating skin wrinkles

Copper Peptide: What will it do for your skin?
Copper, a trace element can be combined with small protein fragments, called peptides and used topically in skin creams. Copper peptides have been proven to enhance wound healing and to stimulate production of collagen. Copper peptides may also enhance the activity of anti-oxidants. There have been some small studies regarding Copper and skin wrinkling and there has been an improvement in fine wrinkling demonstrated.
In wound healing Copper Peptides have been proven to help remodel the skin, breaking down abnormal scar tissue and replacing it with healthy collagen. In theory this benefit of copper could also be applied to treating wrinkles and damaged skin, although probably on a much less intense level.
Copper Peptides also are anti-inflammatory and treat skin irritation, which is accompanied by free radicals which cause skin damage. Therefore it is also a good anti-oxidant.
In higher concentrations Copper Peptide may be potentially harmful to the skin, so lower concentrations are recommended and are used in Dr Rachel Skincare products.
Rachel Sullivan MD
www.candescaskincream.com