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Research Reveals the Secret to Boosting our Skin’s Natural Defences via Unilever

New research by Unilever, IBM Research and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) reveals that vitamin B3 could hold the key to unlocking a new generation of hygiene products that work by boosting the body’s natural defences.

We come into contact with potentially harmful germs every day.
However, our bodies are able to repel the vast majority thanks to tiny but mighty proteins called antimicrobial peptides.
These AMPs, as they are known by scientists, are created by the skin and form its first line of defence by destroying the outer layer of the invading virus and bacteria cells as they come into contact with the skin.

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