Foreskins are being used in some parts of the world for cosmetic purposes. In fact, there are companies with patents for treatment solutions derived from foreskins. Intercytex PLC, an England-based company, came up with Vavelta, a foreskin-derived skin treatment aimed at rejuvenating and smoothing skin withered by age or damaged by scarring from acne, burns and surgical incisions, according to Scientific American.
Vavelta, it is said, contains fibroblasts, cells that produce a skin-firming protein called collagen. The cells are isolated from the foreskins taken from baby boys, given several months to grow and multiply in the lab, and then packaged into treatment vials.
The vials, it was reported, cost as much as $1,000 (Sh100,000).