Patent ID: 7192597

Claim:
A composition for healing stressed or sick skin, comprising: a) at least one substance which forms lamellar structures with water, said substance being selected from the group consisting of monoglycerides, diglycerides, distilled medium-chain monoglycerides, sphingolipids, phospholipids, fatty alcohols, fatty acids, soaps, mono-esters of fatty acids, di-esters of fatty acids, sucrose, glucose, glucosidic condensation products of fatty alcohols with glucose and/or sucrose, furanosidic condensation products of fatty alcohols with glucose and/or sucrose, pyranosidic condensation products of fatty alcohols with glucose and/or sucrose, mono-esters of glucosides with fatty acid derivates, di-esters of glucosides with fatty acid derivates, sterols, mono-esters of fatty acids and sterols, di-esters of fatty acids and sterols, glycol derivates of sterols, and mixtures thereof; b) S-adenosylmethionine and/or at least one compound which has at least one functional group of general formula I: —CH 2 —N ⊕ —(CH 3 ) 3 (formula I) said at least one compound excluding quaternary ammonium surfactants and being selected from the group consisting of betaine, acetyl-choline, choline, glycerophosphocholine, phosphatidylcholine, lysophosphatidylcholine, carnitine, acylcarnitine, sphingomyeline, and mixtures, derivates and metabolites thereof; c) a hydrophilic medium, and d) an additive selected from the group consisting of methyl glycine, dimethyglycine, methyl methionine and mixtures therefore, wherein said composition comprises a lamellar structure having a layer structure in which an upper layer of said substance is aligned with a lower layer of said substance, hydrophilic groups of said substance each point outwards and lipophilic groups of said substance are aligned inwards with one another, and said lamellar structure is surrounded by said hydrophilic medium.