In the name of beauty: Spray on a fresh face
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A JAPANESE cosmetics company yesterday unveiled what it said was the world鈥檚 first spray-on skin for consumers, a moisturizing facemask of fibers one-100th the thickness of a human hair.
After applying an absorbent lotion, users spray the fibers onto their face and a thin translucent sheet is quickly formed, acting as a 鈥済reenhouse鈥 for the real skin below to soak up the moisture and still be able to breathe.
The 鈥渟econd skin鈥 can be worn overnight or peeled off after about a minute.
鈥淭his is the world鈥檚 first cosmetic product using such technology,鈥 according to Masayuki Uchiyama, skincare researcher at Kao, the firm behind the innovation.
The hand-held diffuser was 10 years in the making, said Uchiyama: 鈥淲e struggled to make the device small.鈥
Kao researchers did not initially think of using the technology of ultra-thin fibers to create a layer on the skin, he said, adding that the precise material from which they were made was a secret.
鈥淏ut we learned that the skin can still breathe under the thin fibers for many hours鈥 in an environment akin to a greenhouse. But it does not come cheap, with each diffuser costing 50,000 yen (US$460).
But Kao predicts cosmetic sales could reach 100 billion yen if the technology is applied to the medical field, although spray-on skin is already used for burns patients.
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