International Beauty Design, Inc.

Sysmex Corporation

Rolf Mast

Kinya Uchihashi

Yukio Hamaguchi

Berend Houwen

Dulce M Powers

Aqueous blood-sample diluting reagent and method of its use for compelling a morphological change in a blood sample to yield an MCV value assayed at elapsed time after the sample is drawn to be consistent within a diagnostically acceptable range with the original, immediate post-drawing MCV value. Selection of a small amount of a predetermined surfactant added within a limited range of concentration, and of a salt for adjusting osmotic pressure of the sample is thereby determined. The blood sample is treated with an anti-coagulant agent immediately post-drawing, and for assay in a particle analyzer at post-drawing elapsed time is diluted with the reagent solution. The reagent has an osmotic pressure (&pgr;) of approximately 150-400 mOsm/kg and a pH of 6.0-8.5. The surfactant is present in a 0.0005% to 0.5% concentration and has a hydrophile-lipophile balance (HLB) of 10-20.

Diluting reagent and method compelling time-independent consistency in MCV assay

A hot wax system for conditioning one's hands that includes a wax that is meltable at a temperature below that which would be harmful to one's skin. The molten wax is placed into an elastic glove that is stretchable to at least 150% of its original length and rebounds to at least 20% of its original length. Thereafter, one's hand is placed into the glove and the glove is manipulated to disperse the wax over all the hand surfaces. The hand is kept in the glove until the desired result is achieved--normally about five to thirty minutes. The process may be repeated with the user's other hand and wax dispersement can be accomplished simultaneously in both gloves by repetitively pressing the gloved hands together. The wax may be conveniently enclosed in a heat resistant container or within the glove itself to facilitate storage, heating and to insure that the correct amount of wax is being utilized.

Hot wax skin treatment

An artificial fingernail, the fingernail having the form of a thin sheet extending longitudinally forwardly between proximal and distal edges; the sheet having laterally spaced edges, and having arching curvature between the lateral edges; the proximal edge characterized by a row of serrations, certain of serrations having tapering edges of different lengths, the serrations adapted to be adhesively attached to the upper surface of a natural fingernail and to be concealed therein.

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Riverside, CA, United States of America

Rolf Mast