Thin skin: Japan firm develops ultra-fine spray-on facemask

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TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese cosmetics company Wednesday (Dec 4) unveiled what it said was the world's first spray-on skin, a moisturising facemask made of fibres one-100th the thickness of a human hair.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

TOKYO - A Japanese cosmetics company on Wednesday unveiled what it said was the world's first spray-on skin, a moisturising facemask made of fibres one-hundredth the thickness of a human hair.

The hand-held diffuser was 10 years in the making, said Mr Uchiyama, who admitted:"We struggled to make the device small." "But we learnt that the skin can still breathe under the thin fibres for many hours" in an environment akin to a greenhouse.Nevertheless, Kao predicts cosmetic sales could reach 100 billion yen if the technology is applied to the medical field.

 

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