RESEARCHERS MAKE COSMETICS OUT OF WINE PRODUCTION WASTE
September 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN research project has developed cosmetics products from German wine-making waste. German chemical analysis company Spectral Service and Spanish natural cosmetics company Alfaverde Productos Naturales gently dried fermentation leftovers into powders containing many wine nutrients. These include proteins, B vitamins, minerals and polyphenols, preventing heart or circulation diseases. These have been incorporated into skin creams with anti-wrinkle effects (its violet colour is not transferred to the skin). Also a face mask was developed ...
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