Emerging Sea-Inspired Sunscreen Actives Mimic Coral, Norse Bacterium
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Larissa Bright Australia expects its broad-spectrum UV filters based on the natural sunscreening ability of Great Barrier Reef coral to be available within five years. Meanwhile, Promar AS is developing UVAblue, sunscreen technology that protects against blue-light damage by leveraging a pigment found naturally in a sea bacterium.
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