Focus on our biotech actives!

With climate change, the sustainability approach is becoming essential for all manufacturers. In this context, biotechnology is booming. By exploiting living organisms to create new materials without impacting the environment, biotechnology is opening the way to new applications!

There are many areas of biotechnology in cosmetics, but the 3 main ones are as follows:

Green biotechnology

• Plant biotechnology
• Uses enzymes or plants to produce cosmetic ingredients
• Example: plant stem cells

White biotechnology

• Industrial biotechnology
• Uses micro-organisms (bacteria, yeast) to produce cosmetic ingredients
• Example: fermentation

Blue biotechnology

• Marine biotechnology
• Adds value to algae or marine bacteria growing in bioreactors
• Example: seaweed extracts

In the field of cosmetics, biotechnology meets a number of consumer expectations, such as respect for the environment, ethics, traceability, sustainability and innovation.