{"id":5116,"date":"2014-10-27T11:59:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T11:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=5116"},"modified":"2014-10-27T11:59:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T11:59:21","slug":"algae-based-material-as-deodorant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/algae-based-material-as-deodorant.html","title":{"rendered":"Algae-Based Material as Deodorant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1031gsalgae031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5118\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1031gsalgae031-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"1031gsalgae03\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1031gsalgae031-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1031gsalgae031-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>A team of Swedish researchers from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology has found a way to eliminate the growth of smell-inducing bacteria using algae. They have created an algae-based material that can prevent both body odour and the bacteria that cause it.<\/p>\n<p>The material is made of tiny threads which are created by using a process called electro spinning. The threads are about one-hundredth the width of a human hair which can increase the overall contact between the material\u2019s fibres and the wearer\u2019s skin.<\/p>\n<p>The threads are coated with lanasol, a naturally occurring antibacterial compound commonly found in red algae, and maximum bacteria destruction is reached. The algae substance does not fade away when washed. The anti-bacterial substance is dissolved evenly inside the fibre.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the fibres would wear down and become thinner during washing, then the new material that is uncovered would still contain the substance.<\/p>\n<p>Along with eliminating body odour, the material was found to kill up to 99.99% of <em>Staphylococcus aureus\u00a0<\/em>bacteria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2014\/10\/31\/algae-based-material-takes-body-odor-279755.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Swedish researchers from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology has found a way to eliminate the growth of smell-inducing bacteria using algae. They have created an algae-based material that can prevent both body odour and the bacteria that cause it. The material is made of tiny threads which are created by using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5119,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions\/5119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}