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Besides Saving Planet Earth, Algae Can Improve Your Skin, Too
Posted: 27 Mar 2011 11:37 PM PDT
Most posts on this blog deal with the importance of our single-celled friends in solving really huge problems. But, suppose your skin looks old and tired? Turns out algae can help there too, according to San Francisco’s KGO-TV:

“We weren’t looking for this stuff at first,” said chief scientist Tony Day.

The stuff is alguronic acid — a discovery made by scientists at South San Francisco-based Solazyme. They weren’t looking for alguronic acid at first, but they were looking for other products they could squeeze out of continuing research into algae. A consultant told them to think outside the box — and consider anti-aging creams and lotions.

“Algae has to survive in harsh sunlight, nutrient depletion, they get washed up on the shore and they’re desiccated and they evolved to tolerate those kinds of environmental insults,” said Day.

This is one the unexpected uses for algae that begin to appear as we create more and more of it in commercial production. We’ll find interesting new ways to make money from it it–after it’s helped us save the world, of course.