YSL has announced that for the first time, one of its products – and its formulation based on Glycobiology – is featured at a science museum.

YSL Beauté’s Forever Youth Liberator Serum is now a part of the Berlin Museum‘s new permanent exhibition that features the central role played by glycans in life.

Tthe Berlin-based Sugar Museum has reopened as part of the Deutsches Technikmuseum with an expanded exhibition about sugars: “Sugars and Beyond! Food – Matter – Energy”, from November 26, 2015. The exhibit inlcudes the role sugars play in consumer goods and luxury products.

YSL’s Formulation – Based on Glycobiology

YSL launched its Youth Liberator Serum in 2012. Due to the latest advances in technology, its possible to analyze the skin’s biological mechanisms with greater precision, according to YSL, and it has now been clearly established that glycans are major constituents of the skin and play a decisive role in the skin’s balance.

Professor Peter H. Seeberger, Director of the Biomolecular Systems Department at the Max Planck Institute and member of YSL.SKINSCIENCE committee, explains, “The realms of glycobiology offer huge challenges and opportunities. We are seeing the emergence of ground-breaking applications in the sector of living sciences. The importance of glycans as a “third language” is now acknowledged and is opening the door to new products and applications, and cosmetics is just one of its application.”

Dr. Bruno A. Bernard, L’Oréal Fellow, member of YSL.SKINSCIENCE committee, adds, “30 years ago, when I started working on glycobiology, it was still very early days for this sector. Thanks to tremendous technical progress, it can now be applied to the skin. The latest discoveries are considerable and enable us to open up a new lead in the world of cosmetics. The point is that the youthfulness of skin is now being decoded in a radically different way.”