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Life from the Dead SeaLON COSMETICS STORYMany historical stories involving the unusual properties of the Dead Sea were known for years. It is well known that Cleopatra, the famous and beautiful Egyptian Queen, used to send secretely caravans of camels to the Dead Sea to bring her waters from the Dead Sea for her bathing, claiming that these waters helped her maintain her beautiful skin. Rich Romans in later days also received these waters from the Dead Sea as they too found out that the qualities of the water did wonders for their skin. They all did not know the reasons for the effects but were interested just because the results. In the early part of 1960, studies were undertaken to investigate the unusual properties of the Dead Sea minerals, partly by Hadassah Hospital and partly by private initiative, which-based on the results achieved-established the first cosmetic company, Lon Cosmetics, to be the original pioneering company to develop cosmetic products based on the findings and development of the properties discovered by the Lon group. The effect of the minerals of the Dead Sea water and the Mud originating from the springs around the sea and flowing into the sea, were found to be the source of the beneficial properties in treating skin and especially skin ailments. It was then found that the mud contained many important minerals including organic material, which had undergone through chemical changes due to the climatic conditions of the Dead Sea geographical area and the effect of the sun rays in the region. The Dead Sea is about 400 meters (around 1300 feet) below sea level, the lowest point on earth, and as such the resulting climatic conditions create a special situation which facilitates beneficial skin treatments. It was discovered that certain skin rashes and ailments can be cured by bathing in these waters and by application of the mud, due to the fact that the mineral concentration of more than 20 essential minerals is over 30% which is so much higher than ocean water minerals concetration of 3% and the very effective sulfur present in the water and especially in the important mud. Based on these facts, Health Authorities in many European countries started to send regularly people with skin problems at the governments expense to the Dead Sea area for treatments and many excellent hotels were built, offering special medical services for these tourists. Lon Cosmetics, the pioneer in developing Dead Sea Cosmetics, established in the mid 1960's the first laboratory to produce the first cosmetics from these sources, basing the products on the results of its long research program and distributing the products to the public, in Israel and many foreign countries, establishing itself as an exclusive high quality cosmetic company, with high quality cosmetic products. These products were designed for specific skin classes, the highlight being treatments for oily and problem skin treating Acne, blemishes and other oily skin problems, utilizing the effects of the famous mud. Products for normal, dry and very dry and sensitive skin types were also developed, utilizing the very effective skin exfoliation qualities and assisting in skin rejuvenation. Lon Cosmetics (registered trade mark) was since known as the Dead Sea Cosmetics Company which proved that the Dead Sea is in reality the Sea of Life, and Lon slogan since the very start isLIFE FROM THE DEAD SEA. (registered domain name) Lon continued to develop products, modernizing its Dead Sea range, and expanding its research programs utilizing new active natural ingredients and new processing methods. No animal testing is done on any of LON products. Its latest development of new modern line of cosmetics is the range of peptides based products called NEWTOX, being a very effective anti ageing line of products, separately and fully described as part of this website. Lon is constantly and continuously involved in it