Veladerm

Care for you hands with VELADERM
The hands are a healthcare professional's most valuable instruments. They have to be cleaned many times a day. For this purpose, dentists have used soap for generations and have long suffered from skin dryness, irritations and hand eczema equally long. There is now a new solution to the old problem: VELADERM^® Professional Handwash Lotion cleans the skin without destroying its protective lipids. It is the first product that keeps the hands clean and healthy at the same time.

Protective Skin Lipids
Soap does not just remove dirt. It dissolves and removes the skin's protective lipid layer. The attached dirt goes with the lipids. For cleanliness this is fine. For the skin's health and function it is devastating.

A health skin needs its lipids. Sebum lipids produced by the sebaceous glands make the skin smooth and soft and a pleasure to tough. The stratum corneum lipids seal the skin and form the barrier between the body and its environment. With the frequent use of soap this barrier is destroyed.

Through a defective barrier the skin loses its moisturizers. They have the capacity to bind water and are responsible for keeping a certain amount of moisture in the surface layer. A skin without moisturizers dries out. By the same token substances penetrate into the skin which would normally be stopped at the surface. This leads to skin irritations and allergies.

Dry Skin and Eczema
There is no way of replacing the barrier lipids, after they are washed down the drain. Cremes and ointments may provide momentary relief of the symptoms of dry skin. However, they do not repair the defective barrier. On;y the skin itself can synthesize the barrier lipids and arrange them so they are functional. This requires time, roughly a week or two. Much too long for somebody who washes his hands 50 to 100 times a day.

The continuous removal of skin lipids may not cause symptoms initially. With time, a dry, tense and itchy skin develops. This proceeds to rashes caused by skin irritations and allergies. It ends up with chronic eczema. This chain of events may evolve over an extended period and there may be contributing factors such as age or glove work. For these reasons many do not realize that the soap in the beginning is the cause of the eczema at the end. There is on;e one way of keeping the skin lipid layer intact and avoiding all the problems: get rid of soap.

Cleaning with Detergents


Water and detergents destroy the skin's protective lipid layer and remove its moisturizers. The skin dries out. Dry skin is unpleasant to feel and touch. It is defenseless against microorganisms and toxins. It develops rashes and allergies.

Cleaning with VELADERM^®


VELADERM^® cleans with urea instead of detergents. This removes contaminants, but retains the protective lipids. A fraction of urea penetrates into the skin and increases its water binding capacity. VELADERM^® keeps the skin clean, pleasant and healthy.

The VELADERM Solution
Two German university dermatologist thinking about alternatives to the well-established cleaning with detergents hit upon urea. This protein metabolite is capable of disrupting the non-covalent bonds linking foreign material to the skin. Their experiments with urea as cleaning agents were highly successful.

Urea cleans without destroying the skin's lipids. The contaminants are removed, but the barrier lipids remain intact. Urea has an added advantage: it is one of the most important moisturizing factors in the skin and has been successfully used in the treatment of dry skin. Thus, urea not only cleans the skin without causing harm, it also contributes to the regeneration of dry skin.

On the basis the two doctors formulated a handwash lotion specially designed for dentists and other medical professions who can not do without frequent handwashes.