And the Nobel Prize for beauty goes to… the boffin whose skincare will cost you £390 a month – Daily Mail
Scientists have become rock stars of the pandemic era. We hang on their every pronouncement and have even started to use their egghead language ourselves, from lateral flow testing to re-infection rates, T cells to antibodies.
Now skinca…….
Scientists have become rock stars of the pandemic era. We hang on their every pronouncement and have even started to use their egghead language ourselves, from lateral flow testing to re-infection rates, T cells to antibodies.
Now skincare is getting in on the act. A raft of new products not only look and sound like they’re fresh from a top scientist’s lab, but actually are. If Professor Chris Whitty brought out an anti-ageing cream, we’d buy it.
The most famous of the beauty boffins — thanks to an A-list fanbase that includes Victoria Beckham — is Professor Augustinus Bader, director of Cell Techniques and Applied Stem Cell Biology at The University of Leipzig, Germany.
When Professor Bader translated his groundbreaking wound gel for burns victims into an anti-ageing product, he boldly named it The Cream — and a global skincare phenomenon was born.
Victoria Woodhall puts a selection of new skincare products to the test – including Noble Panacea The Absolute Intense Renewal Serum (pictured)
Then there’s Harley Street’s Dr Yannis Alexandrides. Ten years ago, he was a full-time plastic and reconstructive surgeon fixing cleft palates and car crash wounds.
He wanted to give his patients a serum to speed healing and reduce scarring and chanced upon an ingredient that had been developed for astronauts to heal injuries in space — which also happens to be one of the most ageing places to be.
‘Intense cosmic radiation and lack of gravity make skin age very quickly,’ he explains. If you could heal skin in space, imagine what it could do on earth? The nerdy-sounding NAC Y2 ingredient is at the heart of Dr Yannis’s multi-award-winning 111Skin skincare range.
By leaping into the beauty world, scientists are putting their reputations — and in the case of Sir Fraser Stoddart, a Nobel Prize — on the line. But does ultra-nerdy beauty deliver in real life? We put them to the test . . .
Chemistry lesson
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The boffin: Sir Fraser Stoddart, the British winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
What’s it like? Molecular chemist Sir Fraser invented the Organic Super Molecular Vessel (OSMV), a nano transportation system 10,000 times smaller than a human skin cell which gets ingredients exactly where they need to go, claiming to increase their potency by up to tenfold.
The verdict: The individually wrapped daily …….
