Meet Ramona Cline
Ramona Cline is the founder and owner of Ramona Cline Skincare, based in Los Angeles, California.
Ramona has always believed that proper skin care is just as important as proper body care and good health. Ramona worked from 1999 to 2003 as an Aesthetician at the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, a preeminent luxury spa located near Santa Barbara, California. During this time, Ramona continued to hone her beliefs and skills in the industry. Her high standards and deep knowledge of the importance of natural and pure product ingredients continued to shape her vision and philosophy that an efficient daily skin care regimen could be effective without being time consuming and cost prohibitive.
In 2003 Ramona left Spa Ojai to head up the Skin Care division for one of the country’s most prominent plastic surgeons Dr. Garth Fisher, located in Beverly Hills, California. She continued to build her skin care practice, while also treating many of Dr. Fishers pre/post-operative patients. Ramona pioneered many of the techniques she administered to her patients, and began specializing in treatments such as micro-dermabrasion, chemical peels, and skin-renewal dermaplaning. She worked directly with a laboratory to formulate, customize, and perfect products that she knew would be effective and produce desired and lasting results. Ramona watched her clientele grow with men as well as women, all who shared the same desire -- to improve their overall skin condition and health through the combination of regular, customized facials and an effective, efficient “at-home” skin care regimen.
CHIRAL TECHNOLOGY
Your body chemistry is Chiral. If you want to describe chiral in a simple sense, the best place to start is to talk about your hands. Your hands are basically mirror images of each other. They are chiral. The importance of this becomes more apparent if you decide to wear your left glove on your right hand. Since your hands are not superimposable on one another, the left glove won’t fit the right hand and visa versa.
Your right hand properly fills the right glove in the same way that a right-handed molecule fills a designated need in your body, in a way that the left-handed molecule can’t. Mother Nature’s life building molecules were and still are created in pairs with their mirror images.
All the sugars and carbohydrates in your body are right-handed. They have a specific purpose that the left-handed sugars don’t have. Your body needs right-handed sugars, not left-handed ones.
All the amino acids in your body are left-handed. You won’t find a protein in the body that contains right-handed amino acids. Your body provides the correct glove – i.e. function – for every molecule from which the body is constructed. These gloves are called receptors, all f them are chiral.
The word chiral is from the Greek word “kheir” which means hand. Here is the key point to know about Chirality: Nature and the body are naturally chiral, however the industry cannot meet the demands for natural ingredients by literally wringing them from the natural source. Through the brilliance of chemistry, ingredients can be synthesized to mirror the natural, to be like the natural in every way, with one exception. Synthesizing molecules can create both a left and a right hand together in the same molecule. This is called a racemic molecule. The two hands must be split apart so that the appropriate hand can fit the appropriate receptor in the body. Then the molecule is fully natural again. Because the process of Chiral separation is expensive, the pharmaceutical industry has avoided using the process in their manufacturing of many ingested drugs until just the last 20 years or so. They have seen all the side effects, such as birth defects of Thalidomide 40 years ago, caused by forcing non-chiral drugs into chiral bodies. However, they are finally starting to separate these two-sided molecules and are going back and re-doing old drugs into chiral forms.