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The future of cosmetics is sustainability
We learned from history that natural products do not always chime with sustainable products. In some cases, the increase of intensive agribusiness has compromised essential biodiversity. We can mention the recent case of the Brazilian Cerrado, the Brazil’s second- largest biome (after the Amazon Rainforest), and the world’s most biodiverse savanna, currently threatened because of sugarcane, soya, corn, sorghum, and cotton cultivation expansion.1,2 The cosmetic industry is in constant progress
and, we are more and more numerous to act and make deliberate decisions prioritizing the preservation of our ecosystems. Natura-Tec is one of the pioneers of clean beauty ingredients, as, beyond naturality, Natura-Tec is engaged in sustainability. Since its creation, Natura-Tec constantly applies and develops technologies which ensure consistent quality and purity, combined with environmental compliance and minimal carbon footprint. Our mission is to generate innovative
solutions for the market and open a pathway to success which can benefit customers, the company, and the planet. At Natura- Tec, we believe that tradition, savoir-faire, and technology come together to produce ingredients which are fundamental for local eco systems and socio-economic development, as well as providing the pillars of circular economy processes for the manufacture of advanced cradle-to-cradle materials. Since decades, our sustainable approach unifies and drives activities, growth, and investments within our Group, ensuring that the company’s mission is to focus on the development of renewable, eco-friendly, and ethical manufacturing products and technologies.
Circular economy technologies Natura-Tec develops actives and functional emollients able to improve consumer’s holistic wellbeing, produced thanks to sustainable technologies, with the aim to reduce our impact on climate change. The most sustainable and efficient approaches to capture and store CO2 from the atmosphere is photosynthesis.3 Microalgae have an impressive ability efficiently, combined with high
to fix CO2
photosynthetic efficiency, as algae and microalgae fix 40% of the global carbon dioxide production and produce 50% of the earth’s oxygen. Compared to terrestrial plants, microalgae provide a higher harvest index, a higher biomass productivity, a faster growth (with a multiplying rate of only a few hours), a higher carbon dioxide capture (10 to 50 times more), with a lower water consumption and a
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chain rare essential fatty acids (such as EPA or DHA), liposoluble vitamins (A, D, E and K), phospholipids, glycolipids, sterols, carotenoids, unsaponifiables, and species-specific minerals and vitamins. With such a diverse and rich composition, microalgae offer a vast potential of beneficial actives to the cosmetic chemist. A unique patented sustainable technology
is used for our microalgae production, thanks to an extensive production capacity of more than 30 tonnes per year of dry microalgae biomass and a strong expertise in natural extraction. Green energy is produced by using the entire organic production waste thanks to an on-site power station. Ninety percent of the water used during the
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lower cultivation area, without modifying nature or biodiversity.4 Our microalgae grow thanks to natural
sunlight, and thanks to their internal metabolism can produce naturally original and unique compounds and are therefore of huge interest for the cosmetic industry. By feeding on the riches of the ocean, microalgae concentrate all the beneficial properties of the marine environment. The biomass is then purified and when integrated into cosmetic formulations, microalgae extracts provide the skin with valuable compounds which are essential to its metabolism and contribute to its health and beauty.
The main components are proteins (interesting source of amino acids), long
cultivation is reused, maintaining integrity and quality of the farming environment. Finally, this patented production technology has a positive impact on the environment: carbon dioxide is directly converted into oxygen by the microalgae, resulting in a final negative carbon footprint, in other words, a positive oxygen release.
The upcycling of the olive (Olea
europaea L.) oil refining process is an example of the alliance of tradition, savoir-faire, and technology, serving environmental protection. Natura-Tec and the other subsidiaries of
the APG group, are located on the French and Italian Riviera, along the Mediterranean basin. The Mediterranean area has specific regional features: a climate of hot dry summers; and humid cool winters; with a generally hilly landscape. This climate allows the Mediterranean to have a very rich biodiversity and many species that do not exist anywhere else.
exceptionally high, being one of the world’s top biodiversity hotspots.5
The Mediterranean rate of endemism is For example, ancient
wild olives still survive in Mediterranean forests, as the Olea europaea L. is an extremely long- lived species, with a life expectancy up to 1000 years. Most scientists agree that wild olives are native to Asia Minor. Then, from the eastern parts of the
Mediterranean basin, olive trees naturally spread west through Greece, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, following the coasts.6 The domestication of wild olive trees in the Mediterranean region, seems to have occurred in the Near East during the early Neolithic period, and then it was successively propagated to western areas of the Mediterranean basin around 10,000 BC.7 Today, ancestral cultivation of these trees,
Figure 1: Microalgae sustainable production pattern
with environmentally friendly practices, contributes to the recovery of the local
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