I have been bombarded for months by emails from a certain female doctor with claims for miracle products to restore youth, health and beauty to women of all ages. One of these just happened to coincide with a run-in with an unusually well-lit mirror. I sent for the stuff.
I do, indeed, after only a few applications, see and feel a difference in the texture and quality of the skin on my face. A closer reading of the literature included with the product reveals that it comes from "deep-sea Centrophorous sharks that live in the clean, non-polluted waters of Tasmania". Hence the conundrum: is this akin to wearing those wonderful after ski boots, even knowing that they only exist because some thug was willing to weild a club at a defenseless baby seal?
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hi in reply to the query
hi in reply to the query about Squalane, I would actually say it worse than clubbing seal pups.
They at least have the advantage of being soft and cute, and so winning public support for their conservation.
Deepsea sharks are a major conservation concern. They have life cycles that are comparable to our own in length, and the number of offspring that they produce, and so are very suceptable to over fishing. Stocks of many of these species are thought to have declined by 80 to 90% over three years, at the begining of this century (Quantitative CPUE data available for autoline catches in three ICES areas). We may be about to wipe out several species of these sharks, whilst industry still proclaims that they are abundant. They won't be for much longer.
Also see http://www.savethehighseas.org