Orange Fiber's Nano-Prep. of Peel Waste Produces Commercial Cosmetic Prototype

Orange Fiber (Italy) a high-tech cosmetic supplier startup, has in recent months, according to multiple industry reports cited and summarized here from the biotech industrial and fashion product market source community, now successfully devised the world’s first fully developed (commercial application) prototype of tissue fiber fabric sheets from citrus fruits as what finalized itself in this product preparation as a skin care / application product. The Orange Fiber project (and later on, the corporate entity) is based on a process originally proposed by studying a set of high-tech product design processes first published as a scientific proposal of interest in European tech blogs and high-tech textile journals through 2015-2017 about the original idea that became the founder of the company's college thesis in 2011. Shortly thereafter the student's research became a feasibility study working towards an initial prototype construct by 2014.

Some reports from this prior period indicate (such as this article) that at one time as recently as 2017 the orange peel cellulose source was primarily and exclusively being studied to form a durable fabric to make clothes as opposed to creating a multi-use, skin application tissue-type fabric product that disperses with unique effectiveness its citric contents for use as a beauty / health cosmetic, indicating that the most recent and fully realized prototype and project itself has been altered some as far as the path of realizing Orange Fiber's best suited market potential based on its physical properties and unique benefits that have made it suitable, as of most recent reports on the material's potential, as a near-perfect cosmetic product medium for suited market impact here as opposed to being an equally superior-level fabric for clothing / general fashion constructs where a fabric or fiber's non-ideal or supreme properties would likely set the fiber preparation up for stiff competition based on low-cost competitiveness at high-output (which is not easily achieved for a startup based around a new preparation, especially in the global clothing market). 

Development History Note: Reports citing the first attempts at prototypes (after it first became a more concrete design idea as early as 2014) did note however, such as in this article published in 2016 that the inventors were well aware of the fact, even as early as 2014, that their fabric material being created through the orange-peel process was indeed unique in being extremely highly dense at a fine fiber yarn (for a thick, yet still soft fiber weave) with vitamin and nutrient infused from the citrus and related oils natural to the fruit. 

But as of this stage in commercial development, it is a final product that would still represent an entirely new use / type of segment for consumers that would likewise need to be established for acceptance and success by consumers open to introducing themselves to wearable skin infusion tissue sheets woven from enhanced fibers with unique physical properties that come from its unique nano-formulation as part of its product 'recipe'. Although the final product is extremely unique as far as its exact cosmetic type: wearable tissue-fabrics, it also has the advantage / possible benefit here of carving out a niche within a segment all-its-own for which its physical properties are indeed uniquely highly suited for. 

• Though the product's properties may be theoretically as well as physically interesting to imagine using, establishing an acceptance of the actual application may prove to be as challenging (or near as challenging) as the advanced nano-recipe used to create the 'yarn' for creating the tissue-weave that required 5+ years of R&D to date.

Another two years was spent ironing-out a process in reality that included nano-engineering ideas not yet tested fully as far as a textile, and now a cosmetic commercial application being matched, until this specially noted, by BeGlobal Fashion, achievement of a commercial end-user application finalized prototype achieved during R&D testing and demonstrations held during this current year (2018).

• The new end-product cosmetic application is very light and soft, high quality, and a fabric described as "similar to silk". 
• The new end-product as of 2018 is a skin care product described as both a "cream" and a "tissue" fiber as opposed to making references to use as clothing / fashion material fiber or fabric. 

As part of the traditional preparation beginning stage, company researchers and nano-pioneers squeezed oranges thoroughly so as to assure only the skins would remain. In the Orange Fiber process being reported as their new groundbreaking success, it is from these skins that Orange Fiber derives the cellulose which is then converted, thanks to a much more complex (and so far, from limited reporting available) a so-far proprietary and/or trade rights / patent pending nano-technological process, into a proper type of yarn, and then from there using traditional science once again, made into a woven fabric. 

 

 

The nano-reaction produces the "silky fabric" material that the startup / Orange Fiber research project (and now startup company) eventually concluded most recently is specifically highly effective in capability for evenly and pro-actively releasing active principles on the skin of those who apply the cosmetic tissue sheets to themselves, functioning literally as a "wearable" beauty product cosmetic "cream" equivalent, infused with and time-releasing the citric nutrient properties and vitamins that the company believes are key in the commercialization of this technology towards achieving skin health and vitality through sustainable sourced waste citric cellulose sources with their soon-to-be new product.