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Re:Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily... by kazinator on Saturday September 07, 2024 @12:08AM (#41471372)
> already in cosmetics

Rendering transparent rather than covering up would be kind of an anti-cosmetic use.

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Re:Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily... by delecti on Saturday September 07, 2024 @08:44AM (#41473626)
Yep, which is one of the reasons why this discovery is so weird.

The reason I mention cosmetics, is it means that it's at least in theory skin-safe for humans up to at least some threshold. The next questions would be: what's the threshold at which it's not skin-safe for us anymore, and is that high enough for this effect to happen? Neither are foregone conclusions though.

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