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Good question. What do you think: This isn't the first time syn-ake has made its way into anti-aging products. But would you shell out $165 for fake snake venom -- or is this just the latest high-priced snake oil being peddled to women?
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Thursday 25 February
By texas princess
WELL...I'M GOING OUT BACK NOW, AND JUST MILK ONE OF MY RANCH SNAKES...IF I'M LUCKY, I'LL LET YOU KNOW HOW PURTY I AM!!!!
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Wednesday 24 February
By RJGinCA
Life Extension has been selling the synth snake venom peptide in their formula "New Face" for a couple years now. ....and it's a fraction of the cost listed above. (www.lef.org).
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Wednesday 24 February
By Miz Peg
Texas Princess...let me know if your solution works. We can jump on the "women will pay any amount of money to be beautiful", band wagon
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Wednesday 24 February
By rlyn
How far would you go to look younger? Not that far! What a tremedous waste of money!
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Wednesday 24 February
By rufus
don't you find it amazing how gullible hollywood stars are? i mean, look at the religion her husband belongs to. katie and tom, would you like to buy some swamp land? cheap. freaken morons.
Wednesday 24 February
By Patty
Heck, if this works on the face, how would it work on the chest, would they be perky again???
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Wednesday 24 February
By Robin Groesbeck
Manufacturers GIVE their products to celebs so that they are able to advertise, "So-and-so uses our product." Get it?
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Wednesday 24 February
By BraceWinslow
I heard that one 65 yr old woman with more wrinkles on her face than Gravel Gertie daily rubbed the dung from a Peruvian llama on her face for one week. Her face was transformed into that of a 22 yr old New York model.
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Wednesday 24 February
By Michelle
This is very old news. Isomers has been doing this for years.
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Wednesday 24 February
By steve
Actually, snake venom has been found to have a number of medical uses and more are being found every day. 10 years ago, a Korean pit-viper's venom was used to create an anti-cancer medication. It doesn't cure cancer, but it stops metastisization, or spreading of cancer cells and allows doctors to treat the cancer with chemo and/or radiation. Once the cancer is gone, it never comes back. The medication is called Salmosin.
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