Imagine going a gorgeous golden colour without having to bake for hours in the sun or use a fake tan. To make your skin colour change chemically, all you would need to do is pop a pill or apply a cream.You may soon be able to alter your skin tone, and maybe even your eye colour, as easily and as often as you dye your hair but with a lot less mess — while protecting your skin from sun damage and cancer.
Fisher thought a compound called forskolin — which comes from the root of an Asian plant — might activate the same tan-producing mechanism as the sun.
He made a lotion from the forskolin and applied it to specially bred mice that have red fur and skin normally incapable of tanning.
After several weeks of daily application, the mice were really tanned. It has long been known that skin, hair and eye colour are mostly influenced by a dark pigment called melanin. The forskolin helped activate melanin at a much earlier stage and so was able to get even the under-productive melanocytes of the mice to generate sufficient melanin.
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