A Kiwi tech company has started using the collagen fishing company Sanford extracts from hoki skin as an agent for burns and wrinkles.
West Auckland's Revolution Fibres has launched a natural skincare product called actiVLayr, which uses this pure collagen as a base ingredient and transforms it into nanofibre using a Kiwi-pioneered technique called electro-spinning, New Zealand Herald reported.
The hoki skins are then combined with elements such as fruit extracts and hyaluronic acid to make a sustainably-sourced product, which independent testing has shown could reduce wrinkles by a third.
During this process, natural ingredients known as bioactives - such as kiwifruit and grapes - and hyaluronic acid, an ingredient to help the skin retain moisture, were bonded to the nanofibres to create sheets of actiVLayr.
When it was exposed to wet skin, the nanofibres dissolved rapidly and released the bioactives deep into the skin.
"The way actiVLayr is produced, and the unique application method of placing it onto wet skin like a mask, means ingredients are absorbed quickly and efficiently into the skin to maximise the repair and protection of the skin," Revolution Fibres chief executive Iain Hosie said.
"There are endless uses for actiVLayr and the one we're most proud of is in the medical area with the ability for drug compounds or medicines to be added to the actiVLayr formula,” he pointed out.
In addition, Hosie said the beauty of the product was that it recycled material from the fishing industry which would previously have been turned into pet food or fishmeal.
Just a kilogram of hoki skin was enough to produce 400 sq metres of nanofibre material.
Nanofibres are textiles made from super-fine fibres between 100 to 500 nanometres in width - by comparison, a human hair is 50,000 nanometres wide.
These small fibres could create vast changes in mechanical strength, reactivity, and conductivity, among many other properties.
"We've had to ramp up production to ensure we can supply a wide range of new clients and opportunities," Hosie said.
The product was launched at the China Beauty Fair in Shanghai, and also presented here as part of Techweek.
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