ENVIRON® skin creams are not just another product to fool people into believing their skin will look better. So many cosmetic creams remain old-fashioned moisturisers offering 'dreams of youthful skin' wrapped in progressively more modern and more expensive containers.

ENVIRON® skin care products have been formulated to combat and relieve the harmful effects of the harsh climatic changes of today's environment, specifically pollution and ever increasing doses of radiation from the sun due to the thinning of the protective ozone layer.

As the sun's bad effects only appear in later life it is important to make all children sun wise to avoid wrinkled old skin and cancer. The frightening increase in skin cancer has made scientists predict that one in seventy-five children born in the year 2000 will develop a melanoma during their lifetime.

Dr. Desmond Fernandes, a plastic surgeon in South Africa became very concerned about skin cancer in the early l980s and started research that eventually led to the conception of the ENVIRON® range of skin care products.

He started to use vitamin A acid (Tretinoin) on his own facial skin in 1982 because of the positive effects that he had noticed on patients that he had treated for acne.

By 1986 he had uncovered all the positive facts about vitamin A and antioxidants and he started to promote the use of Tretinoin for the prevention of skin cancer.

Initially, Dr. Fernandes was producing the creams in his kitchen but he then found a chemist and offered the creams to patients from 1988 onwards.

The creams became so popular that people made appointments to see Dr. Fernandes just to obtain them and it was then that he decided to start a company to sell the creams. He believed that these creams would keep people's skin healthy, in fact, he believed that these creams were essential for healthy skin.

Dr. Fernandes believes that everyone on earth should use vitamin A topically to keep their skin safe and eventually every skin care range in the world should include vitamin A and antioxidants.

The Company soon expanded their products into a full skin care range and they now export to all five major continents namely Africa, North America, Asia, Australasia and Europe.

The Company is a family owned business and as such ENVIRON® is one of the very few major skin care Companies that manufacture and market their goods.

ENVIRON® says it is skincare for a lifetime, and it really means that.

ENVIRON® works for everyone, whatever their skin type.

It has been found that once clients start using the ENVIRON® range, they never leave it.

ENVIRON® is recommended by many plastic surgeons, dermatologists and BUPA hospitals.

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