Age Inhibitors

A method for scavenging reactive carbonyl compounds, or for treating the skin to reduce evidence of wrinkles and ageing and to restructure the epidermis and the papillary dermis comprising the administration of an effective amount of a compound of following general formula I:

• wherein:
• X represents CH2, C═O, C═S or CHOH, R1 represents an amino acid, optionally substituted by one or more halogen atoms, or by one or more CF3 groups, and n=0, 1 or 2
• or X represents CH2, C═O, C═S or CHOH, R1 represents a peptide containing two amino acids, each amino acid being optionally substituted by one or more halogen atoms, or one or more CF3 groups, and n=0 or 1
• or XR1 represents PO3H or SO3H and n=0, 1 or 2;
• R2 represents H, XR1, a C1-C6 alkyl group, a C1-C6 aralkyl group or an aryl group, the alkyl, aralkyl and aryl groups being able to be substituted by a NH2, a carboxylic group, one or more halogen atoms, or one or more CF3 groups;
• or the pharmaceutically acceptable addition salts, isomers, enantiomers and diastereoisomers of same, as well as mixtures of same,
• with the exception of the compound
• to a patient in need thereof.