Clarins counters bad vibes on anti-radiation spray

PARIS (Reuters Life!) - French beauty products group Clarins will publish scientific studies it conducted before launching a new spray against electromagnetic radiation in order to counter bad publicity, the company said on Friday.

Clarins says its "Expertise3P" (E3P) spray protects skin against the kind of radiation generated by mobile phones and computers.

It says the spray contains molecules derived from micro-organisms living near undersea volcanoes and plants which exist in extreme conditions like those alongside motorways or which grow in Siberia.

"This new product is contested so we have decided to publish the results of our experiments ... in a world-renowned scientific journal," Managing Director Olivier Courtin told a conference on the company's 2006 results.

"Articles in some newspapers and on some Web sites have not been very positive," Courtin told Reuters after the conference.

He said the study would show the results of tests that Clarins commissioned from a physics laboratory which bombarded skin cultures with electromagnetic rays within a special chamber surrounded by lead to keep out other sources of radiation.

He declined to name the journal in which the study would be published, citing a confidentiality agreement.