{"id":6495,"date":"2017-06-05T12:58:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T12:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=6495"},"modified":"2017-06-05T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T12:58:50","slug":"swansea-uni-study-finds-uv-blocking-algae-a-sunscreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/swansea-uni-study-finds-uv-blocking-algae-a-sunscreen.html","title":{"rendered":"Swansea Uni Study Finds UV-blocking Algae a Sunscreen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research at Swansea University has discovered that UV protective algae could be used as a sustainable alternative to sunscreen.\u00a0The natural products, found in the sea, have a high absorbance of damaging sun rays.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that\u00a0algae have their own process of protecting themselves against the damaging ultra-violet rays.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6496 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sunscreenalgae_slider-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sunscreenalgae_slider-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sunscreenalgae_slider-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0increasing evidence that some of the synthetic sunscreens are quite harmful to the environment when they wash off in the sea, it is expected that algae based sunscreen products could have high demand in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-south-west-wales-39923446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research at Swansea University has discovered that UV protective algae could be used as a sustainable alternative to sunscreen.\u00a0The natural products, found in the sea, have a high absorbance of damaging sun rays. The researchers found that\u00a0algae have their own process of protecting themselves against the damaging ultra-violet rays.\u00a0 With\u00a0increasing evidence that some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[546,618,615,576],"tags":[421,554],"class_list":["post-6495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-non-fuel-products","category-innovations","category-research-2","category-university-research","tag-algae-cosmetics","tag-algae-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6497,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495\/revisions\/6497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}