Researchers from the Bioengineering and Biomaterials Laboratory of the Catholic University of Valencia (UCV) have created a antimicrobial lipstick that “protects against viruses, bacteria and fungi”. In this way, whoever uses this product “will avoid becoming infected and spreading infections to other people, in the same way that they will be able to share it with family or friends in complete safety,” they emphasize from the academic institution.
This new development by the research group led by Professor Ángel Serrano has been made with blueberry extract in a lipstick cream base that contains shea butter, vitamin E, provitamin B5, babassu and avocado oil.
Plus, this deep red lipstick is quick on the complete virus deactivation, whether wrapped or unwrapped, as it only takes a minute of contact time to achieve it. Multidrug-resistant bacteria, tuberculosis model mycobacteria, and fungi were inactivated within five hours of being in contact with the lipstick, project officials say.
The UCV research has been published in the international scientific journal ‘ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces’, edited by the American Chemical Society (ACS).
The team of scientists that created this new antimicrobial beauty product, led by the head of the UCV Bioengineering and Biomaterials Laboratory, Ángel Serrano, is also made up of Alberto Tuñón and Alba Cano.
This study has been financed by the State Research Agency of the Ministry of Science and Innovation and by the Fundación Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir.