Beauty

Swiss biomaterials firm Seprify has raised 12.25 million francs ($15.7M) to scale its cellulose-based alternatives to titanium dioxide for the food and cosmetics sectors. As the consumer goods industry reckons with the impact of…
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US startup Savor has launched a beauty and personal care division, expanding its carbon-based fats beyond food to address the climate issues caused by the use of tropical oils in cosmetics. The ubiquitous use of palm oil in cosmetics…
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As Europe’s personal care brands look for eco-friendly alternatives to animal and tropical fats, a new partnership bets on microalgae oils to usher in a new era for cosmetics. More and more Europeans are seeing cleaner beauty, with half…
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Singaporean cellular agriculture company Umami Bioworks has teamed up with salmon specialist Nippon Barrier Free to bring cultivated marine supplements and cosmetics to Japan. A pioneer in the cultivated seafood and marine ingredients…
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Japanese cellular agriculture specialist IntegriCulture has introduced Cellag, a brand to sell its own products, as well as those by other companies, across the food, cosmetics, and materials categories. To drive greater interest and…
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German startup Bluu has expanded its salmon cell culture technology to skincare and health innovations, adding to its existing cultivated seafood line. Hamburg-based Bluu has taken a "salmon leap of opportunities" with the expansion of…
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Singaporean startup ImpacFat has secured fresh financing to fuel its Asian commercialisation plans for cultivated omega-3 fish fat. ImpacFat, a Singapore-based biotech firm producing fish fats from cell cultures, has expanded into Japan…
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UK startup Clean Food Group has acquired the assets of Algal Omega 3, giving it access to a million litres of fermentation capacity to produce its yeast-derived oils. Two weeks after securing regulatory approval in multiple markets,…
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Estonian startup Äio has produced the first tonne of its yeast-derived palm oil alternative and plans to roll out its first cosmetic ingredient by year-end. Taking a big step towards commercialisation, Tallinn-based biotech firm Äio has…
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UK startup Clean Food Group has secured regulatory approval to use its sustainable yeast-derived oil as a cosmetic ingredient in the US and Europe. In a major milestone for the sustainable fats space, British food tech firm Clean Food…
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Singapore's Greenitio has closed a $1.5 million seed funding round to turn mushroom-based chitosan into functional biopolymers for cosmetics and specialty chemicals. A biotech startup from Singapore has attracted $1.5M from investors to…
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Japan's IntegriCulture and Singapore's Umami Bioworks have joined forces to leverage their cellular agriculture expertise and develop novel cosmetics from cultured fish cells. Ahead of Japan's inaugural Cellular Agriculture Week, one of…
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Singaporean cellular agriculture startup Umami Bioworks has launched Marine Radiance, a line of cell-cultured marine bioactives, starting with regenerative compound PDRN. Singapore-based Umami Bioworks has expanded its AI-led cell…
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Californian biotech startup Geltor has secured fresh funding to expand its biodesigned polypeptides, including precision-fermented collagen, to new markets. US precision fermentation firm Geltor has closed a new equity financing round…
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Asian biotech startup Avant has received the C-Label accreditation for its ZelluGen peptide complex, a first for a non-food product. Aiming to clean up both our skin and the marine peptide industry, Avant's ZelluGen peptide complex –…
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Danish biotech firm Cellugy has secured €8.1M via an EU grant to scale up its bio-based alternative to fossil-based skincare ingredients. To rid the cosmetics industry of its fossil fuel dependence, Danish startup Cellugy has received…
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NoPalm Ingredients, a Dutch producer of sustainable yeast-derived fats, has rolled out a new brand amid its scale-up process, with its CEO arguing that palm oil substitutes are critical now. Smarter, circular alternatives to problematic…
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With demand for clean beauty on the rise, two startups have co-developed a fossil-free moisturiser that benefits the skin and the planet. Fossil fuels are all over our skins – more than 70% of cosmetics contain petroleum-based…
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Popular product scanning app Yuka has rolled out a new feature that allows users to hold food companies accountable for questionable ingredients. For years, Parisian startup Yuka has been a platform for consumer transparency and…
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Unilever has partnered with biotech firm Nufarm to produce oil from the entire sugarcane plant and replace fossil fuels from its laundry and beauty products. From laundry detergents to soaps, most cleaning products contain surfactants…
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Southeast Asian marine biotech company Avant has rolled out a range of skincare actives made by cultivated fish cells. To modernise and futureproof the ways we currently produce peptides, cellular agriculture startup Avant has unveiled…
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