How biotech could improve the ingredient supply chain, according to an expert
Green beauty, clean beauty and conscious beauty all start at the bottom of the supply chain, and a biotech expert says fermentation could make that easier.
Humans have been harnessing biotechnology since the advent of fermented foods and drinks, but since the 1970s the process has been growing as a strategy to produce cosmetics ingredients.
Jasmina Aganovic, CEO of biotech company Arcaea told CosmeticsDesign that biotechnology could help the beauty industry reduce its need for extractive processes in ingredient production, including extraction of botanicals.
“We think to appreciate nature is to consume it,” Aganovic said. “Can we create a way to honor, but be very reciprocal, with our environment. That's what biotech presents, the ability to appreciate without the extractive relationship. That's actually a much healthier relationship for us to have with the world around us.”
