To: Professional Skin Care Centres, Dermaticians, Aestheticians and Beauty Therapists.
Please find the "Important Warning" letter attached. Read it carefully because it contains important and frightening FDA information that will benefit yourself, your customers and your ability to attract new customers, thereby increasing your business potential.
If you agree with the letter, simply stamp your business name, address and telephone number at the top of the letter and print copies to hand to your customers. Offer them additional copies to give to their friends.

We offer no suggestions as to what you do with any products you presently use and sell that contain Alpha-Hydroxy, Glycolic, Lactic and Vit. C Acids. However, based on the irrefutable evidence, we are required to advise you that if you are using and selling those Acid based products in conjunction with Holistica treatments and products, Holistic does not accept responsibility for any skin reactions or damage that may occur as a result.
Today, the chances are high that new customers may have been treated with and/or use AHA formulated products. For this reason, we strongly suggest that it may be a wise decision to have all new customers sign a Liability Waiver protecting you and your business from any negative consequences as a result of their exposure to Acid based products. We have a Liability Waiver form available to our Professional Customers.
I truly hope that the enclosed information will be of some benefit to you and your business.

Yours truly,

Terry Filion,
on behalf of Holistic Skin Care Products Ltd.

IMPORTANT WARNING to AHA (Alpha-Hydroxy Acid) Users
Below are excerpts from Senator Kennedy's speeches. Senator Kennedy has been advocating stronger regulation by the FDA of ingredients used in cosmetic preparations.

"Alpha-hydroxy acid is one of the hottest selling cosmetic products on the market. This product is sold to erase fine lines and tighten the skin but has devastating health effects that are unknown to most consumers. The agency has received 100 reports of adverse effects with alpha-hydroxy acid products, ranging from mild irritation and stinging to blistering and burns. More importantly, these products make users more sensitive to ultraviolet radiation from sunlight -- which can cause skin cancer."

"These potential dangers come into startling focus when we review the risks associated with just four widely used products--risks unknown to the average consumer. Alpha-hydroxy acid used in face creams can be a potent contributor to skin cancer. Feminine hygiene products can cause pelvic inflammatory disease leading to infertility in young women."

Additional FDA information on AHAs: The complaints received by FDA included severe redness, swelling (especially in the area of the eyes), burning, blistering, bleeding, rash, itching, and skin discoloration. FDA believes reactions from AHAs are probably even more widespread. Past experience suggests that for every adverse reaction report the agency receives, the manufacturer receives 50 to 100. "This would translate into approximately 10,000 adverse reactions being received for AHA-containing products," says John Bailey, Ph.D., acting director of FDA's Office of Cosmetics and Cols.
An industry-sponsored study found that people who use AHA products have greater sensitivity to sun, raising the spectre of greater risk of photoaging and skin cancer.
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Holistic Skin Care note to reader: Holistica and WOW Therapy do not and have never used Alpha-hydroxy or Glycolic Acid in any of their products. In our opinion, in addition to the above advisory, the negative free-radical action of these ingredients also causes damage to the skins cellular pH and myelin, resulting in a thinning and pre-mature aging of the skin. Much of the damage may not appear for many years after discontinued use.
Over the last 18 years, Holistica has developed naturally-formulated skin care products, professional treatments and home regimes that have proven to successfully treat and reverse the damage caused by Alpha-Hydroxy and Glycolic Acid treatments and products.

Madam Alma Filion, D.N.M. (Doctor of Natural Medicine).