What if you never had to worry about painful sunburns or sun damage ever again? Well, that’s what researchers are suggesting with their new super cream and it’s all based on synthetic melanin. It’s a hyper-regenerative cream, one that both protects skin while healing it at the same time.
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00:00 What if you never had to worry about painful sunburns or sun damage ever again?
00:08 Well, that's what researchers are suggesting with their new super cream, and it's all
00:11 based on synthetic melanin.
00:14 It's a hyper-regenerative cream, one that both protects skin while healing it at the
00:17 same time.
00:18 The cream is being developed by scientists at Northwestern University, and they say it
00:22 could revolutionize the skin care industry.
00:25 It works by trapping what are called free radicals, or electrons that are not bound
00:29 in a pair.
00:30 They are naturally occurring, but toxic.
00:32 However, our bodies have an enzyme system which deals with them quite well.
00:35 Still, at the point of an injury, like say a sunburn, many more free radicals are produced
00:39 and the body might not be able to deal adequately on its own, sometimes leading to skin cancer.
00:45 Melanin is one way our body deals with those free radicals, but the new synthetic, melanin-engineered
00:49 nanoparticles are much better at it.
00:52 With the researchers saying about their new cream, "The synthetic melanin is capable
00:56 of scavenging more radicals per gram compared to human melanin.
00:59 It's like supermelanin.
01:00 It's biocompatible, degradable, non-toxic, and clear when rubbed onto the skin."
01:05 And they add, "It has a regenerative healing property when applied as well, instigating
01:09 an immune response without inflammation."
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