Lygg

Lygg is building new sunscreen ingredients based on lignin, a major biomaterial found in all plants. Sunscreens are greasy, eye-irritating, and have been demonstrated to damage coral reefs. All of these problems can be traced back to just one ingredient: octocrylene. We’re building a new ingredient that replaces octocrylene and solves all these problems. We use new chemistry discovered over the past few years to extract lignin and transform it into our ingredient. After dominating the sunscreen market, we’ll use the same extraction chemistry to create hundreds of other chemicals ranging from adhesives to surfactants.