Researchers have discovered the secret of soft skin of babies. Substance that protects the baby's skin on a woman's womb is a natural moisturizer, wound healer and antiseptic.

United States research teams (USA) hope to match the natural moisturizing pregnant women produced by producing a synthetic type normally used for products baby diapers, bandages and skin lotions.

Fatty liquid and white vernix known as a growing around 27 weeks gestation period.

A baby born earlier in the week until week 32 to 33 will be covered with vernix, but for babies bron accordance with the time might not be covered with liquid.

Wash the baby immediately after birth is a common thing that many find in some countries, but the researchers challenged the habit.

According to a study conducted Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, vernix keep the skin from dryness, skin peeling, and pH balanced. "It should have to stay there vernix when the baby is born," says Marty Visscher, director of Skin Sciences Institute at a hospital.

Premature Birth
Institute have agreed to work together with a pharmaceutical company involving skin care who developed a type of synthetic material that helps premature babies born without vernix.

'We develop the production of vernix resembled a substitute As with formula milk, "said Dr Visscher. "Nature has found a way to produce it. In the long term we hope to produce a synthetic substance that are equivalent".

None out there that can match substance who brought the baby at birth and attempt to imitate the endless vernix. "A study has been conducted on the number of infants who have been removed the vernix half and the rest is left on the baby's body.

Various factors such as drought levels (hydration), humidity level, and skin pH measured each one, four and twenty-four hours after birth.

'Gimmick'
Overall results of the study reported at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academies Societies in Seattle, United States. However, not all people believe in the development of synthetic vernix.

Janet Fyle, a midwife at the Royal College of Midwives in the UK to create an idea called "gimmick". 'This is in contrast with nature for every person who develops what nature has given at birth, "she told BBC News Online. "A midwife and obstetrician to know the value of a vernix so do not wash," she continued.

"We're going to tell a mother who wants to clean up the vernix and told her that the substance is very good for the skin health of the baby," she added