Patent ID: 7825161

Claim:
A method of scavenging free radicals, the method comprising: administering one or more free radical scavenging compounds to a dermal substrate, and reducing the levels of free radicals without significantly increasing pro-oxidant activity while the one or more free radical scavenging compounds is on the dermal substrate and is exposed to irradiation, wherein the one or more free radical scavenging compounds are selected from the group consisting of C 84 fullerene and C 84 (Y) m , where C 84 is a fullerene, Y is a moiety attached, directly or indirectly, to the C 84 fullerene, where m is in the range of 1 to 30, and Y is selected from the group consisting of lipophilic moieties, hydrophilic moieties, amphiphilic moieties, free radical scavenging moieties, or bio-site specific moieties.