Bio-circular chemistry for cosmetics & personal care
Cosmetics and personal care companies are under growing pressure from consumers and regulators to make their products more circular and environmentally friendly. At the same time, any substitute ingredient must meet stringent requirements and adhere to regulations.
We help cosmetics and personal care teams innovate faster with high-performance bio-circular ingredients and advanced green chemistry services.
Whether you need a drop-in or functional substitute, a full reformulation strategy, or expert guidance on regulatory and environmental claims, our solutions can be applied independently or combined for maximum impact.
Bio-circular ingredients for cosmetics & personal care
Explore the results of deep scientific expertise and genuine care for our planet.
Lignin-carbohydrate complexes | LUX
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Discover our LUX platform, a high-performance complex with a light colour and neutral odour, designed for easy integration into a new class of bio-based skincare products.
Made from locally sourced plant material, it's ideal for responsible skin care solutions.
Learn more about our lignin-carbohydrate complexes LUX
UV filters | SALICIS
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If you want your sun protection formula to benefit from bio-circular UV filters instantly, check our green-compliant drop-ins: bio-EHS and bio-homosalate.
Both circular UV filters offer seamless, one-to-one replacement of petroleum-based versions. With identical INCI nomenclature and a significantly reduced carbon footprint, they upgrade sustainability without altering the formulation.
Interested in learning more?
Biominerals | CALCIS
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Responsibly sourced eggshells and scallop shells create a high-value circular feedstock for bio-based calcium carbonate.
Reduce environmental impact through high-purity mineral solutions that maintain formulation quality.
Find out how we included it in a showcase eco-friendly suncream formula.
Natural Vanillin | LINIS
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Most vanillin on the market (85%) has a petrochemical origin.
Our natural alternative delivers the iconic scent consumers love, with a clean-label story and added functionality for richer and more protective sensorial formats such as lip balms.
Curious about natural vanillin?
Our natural chemistry services
We go beyond routine analysis, starting with a flexible, early-stage study to mitigate risks, and finishing with data interpretation to drive R&D decisions.
Claim substantiation
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We design and develop test methods that substantiate both product functional and sustainability claims.
Using tailored, evidence-based protocols, we provide scientific proof for a product’s mode of action, ensuring that robust data backs every claim.
Our process involves data collection, targeted testing, and structured documentation to confirm the accuracy and reliability of each claim. With our expert knowledge and proactive approach, you will minimise compliance risks early.
Formula stability
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Unintended chemical interactions can quietly undermine product quality, triggering phase separation, solidification, discoloration, off-odours, viscosity shifts, and batch variability.
Our stability analyses reveal the true root causes behind these failures. By applying deep chemical insight and stress testing formulations under oxidation, moisture, light, and other real-world conditions, we pinpoint the mechanisms driving destabilisation and deliver targeted, commercially meaningful fixes that protect product performance and brand reputation.
Advanced benchmarking
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Market opportunities and true differentiation are not only about which ingredients are used in a formulation, but also about how they interact, perform, and reinforce each other within the final product. These underlying interactions can be uncovered with what we call deep mechanism-based analysis.
Let our chemistry experts provide strategic insights into formulation synergies, performance optimisation, and competitive positioning, helping you identify what can be improved, replaced, or outperformed to define a clear and defensible USP.
Avoid unnecessary & costly tests
Identify risks early
Speed up time-to-market
→ Launch your new products with confidence
→ Establish clear product differentiation through deep mechanism-based analysis
→ Reduce your development time and costs
→ Compliant solutions for tough challenges
→ Market your products with scientifically sound and legally robust claims
→ Strengthen your supply resilience with locally sourced biomass and decentralised processing
De-risk innovation ● Validate performance ● Accelerate time-to-market
Biominerals showcase – GreenShield
Problem
Conventional sunscreens commonly rely on inorganic UV filters such as zinc oxide and titanium dioxide. While effective, these materials present growing environmental and sustainability considerations, particularly regarding marine ecosystems and mineral sourcing.
Solution
Bio-based calcium carbonate derived from upcycled eggshells offers a circular, high-purity mineral alternative, enabling the development of eco-conscious formulations that reduce dependence on fossil-derived inputs while maintaining high performance standards.
Our impact
In collaboration with EGGXPERT (Netherlands), we developed and validated a bio-based calcium carbonate formulation within the Interreg CrossRoads programme, showcasing the potential of biomineral innovation in next-generation sun care.
Interested in exploring bio-circular ingredients for your sun care products?
The future of cosmetics is bio-circular
Regulatory resilience, supply security, brand credibility, and consumer trust - these are just some of the reasons why tomorrow’s cosmetics market leaders are building on natural chemistry today.
With bio-based solutions reaching scalability and cost parity against unsustainable and volatile petroleum-based counterparts, it's the ideal time to join in.
With 40 years of green chemistry expertise, we deliver bio-circular ingredients and strategic formulation support to expedite the growth of these future industry frontrunners.
Ready to secure your advantage? Write us a message.
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