SoyScreen, a soy-based ingredient originally developed for use in sunscreen lotions, has now found its way to the U.S. market in a rather different cosmetics product: A variation of SoyScreen is the key active ingredient in a wrinkle-prevention skincare product marketed by a major cosmetics company in New York City.<\/b><\/p>\n
When Agricultural Research Service (ARS<\/a>) chemists Joe Laszlo and Dave Compton originally developed SoyScreen, they envisioned outdoor enthusiasts and other consumers using their invention as an environmentally friendly alternative to petroleum-based sunscreens.<\/p>\n Instead, SoyScreen – and the patented ARS method of producing it – became the technological platform from which the start-up iSoy Technologies Corporation, Illinois began launching a novel class of cosmetic ingredients called “skincare bio-lipid actives.”<\/p>\n In February 2007, a variation of SoyScreen formulated by iSoy – ferulic soy glycerides (FSG33) – made its commercial debut as a key active ingredient in a wrinkle-prevention skincare product marketed by a major cosmetics company in New York City.<\/p>\n FSG33’s burgeoning commercial roots began with bio-lipid reaction experiments that Laszlo and Compton conducted in 1998 at ARS’ National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR<\/a>) in Peoria, Illinois. There, they devised an enzyme-based method to make an all-natural sunscreen from soy oil and ferulic acid, a natural antioxidant that filters out UVA and UVB sunlight.<\/p>\n