Danish bioscience company Kaffe Bueno, which upcycles coffee byproducts into functional ingredients, has revealed its latest wave of innovations as it seeks to help brands become more natural and sustainable, while not compromising on results.
IFF’s GENENCARE collection takes a previously low-value processing byproduct from sugar beet molasses and transforms it into four effective and sustainable active ingredients for personal care product formulation.
Canadian food products supplier Fruit D’Or utilizes closed loop cultivation and other environmentally sustainable processing practices to upcycle cranberry seed oil co-products for cosmetic and personal beauty care product manufacturing and formulation.
UK indie brand Beauty Kitchen has unveiled a collective of specialist B-Corps established to prove the potential behind collaboration for more circular beauty concepts.
Recently published scientific review examines bioactive compounds found in coffee by-products and their potential benefits as upcycled cosmetic ingredients.
British circular beauty brand UpCircle recently raised close to half a million euros in crowdfunding that it will use for US production expansion, global product development and pushing ahead with its wider mission to make green and natural cosmetics...
Upcycled banana beauty brand Kadalys is expanding its business deeper into research, development and bioactives production – a move its founder says will create jobs, counter the climate crisis and inspire wider change amongst industry.
Plants around the world offer botanical and upcycled ingredient potential, and a research team out of Malaysia found the peel of mangosteen fruits may hold skincare promise.
The peel and seeds from industrial processing of citrus fruits can be used in an array of active skin care formulations for their bioactive compounds, though circular industrial frameworks need to be further developed to scale use, say researchers.
Research and brand stories around upcycled ingredients are on the rise, but making the ingredients scalable may be a challenge. CosmeticsDesign spoke with Giorgio Dell’Acqua, current chair of the New York Society of Cosmetic Chemists, about the current...
Food waste is a promising source of raw materials for upcycled ingredients. Revisit below three CosmeticsDesign articles on upcycled ingredient research, all of which come from drink production.
In the search for innovative cosmetic uses for upcycled ingredients, fibers created from food waste could mean skin protection and delivery of active ingredients.
EMEA beauty suppliers say upcycled ingredients are the next-big trend to watch in 2022, as brands look for ways to plug circular needs and cater to sharper consumer sustainability demands.
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![UpCircle offers a range of skin care products made using a variety of upcycled ingredients, including coffee grounds, olive oil stones and discarded rose petals [Image: UpCircle Facebook]](/var/wrbm_gb_food_pharma/storage/images/_aliases/news_teaser_medium/publications/cosmetics/cosmeticsdesign-europe.com/article/2022/09/07/upcircle-480-000-crowdfunding-to-drive-us-expansion-npd-and-brand-awareness-says-co-founder/15746139-1-eng-GB/UpCircle-480-000-crowdfunding-to-drive-US-expansion-NPD-and-brand-awareness-says-co-founder.jpg)
![Kadalys works with banana farmers in Martinique to source fruit waste that it makes into a range of bioactive ingredients for beauty [Getty Images]](/var/wrbm_gb_food_pharma/storage/images/_aliases/news_teaser_medium/publications/cosmetics/cosmeticsdesign-europe.com/headlines/brand-innovation/upcycled-banana-beauty-brand-kadalys-expanding-into-supply-research-to-tackle-climate-crisis/15365676-1-eng-GB/Upcycled-banana-beauty-brand-Kadalys-expanding-into-supply-research-to-tackle-climate-crisis.jpg)
![Citrus fruit waste, which represents practically half of the fresh fruit mass, can be incorporated into a range of cosmetic applications, including skin care, body lotions and sprays [Getty Images]](/var/wrbm_gb_food_pharma/storage/images/_aliases/news_teaser_medium/publications/cosmetics/cosmeticsdesign-europe.com/article/2022/03/16/citrus-fruit-waste-upcycled-for-cosmetics-active-skin-care-holds-potential-finds-review/13327345-1-eng-GB/Citrus-fruit-waste-upcycled-for-cosmetics-active-skin-care-holds-potential-finds-review.jpg)
![EMEA suppliers are predicting a boom in upcycled ingredients from food and non-food waste streams next year [Getty Images]](/var/wrbm_gb_food_pharma/storage/images/_aliases/news_teaser_medium/publications/cosmetics/cosmeticsdesign-europe.com/article/2021/12/23/upcycled-ingredients-key-2022-beauty-trend-in-emea-say-suppliers/13119324-1-eng-GB/Upcycled-ingredients-key-2022-beauty-trend-in-EMEA-say-suppliers.jpg)
