Introducing Biotechnology
As consumers demand safer, more natural ingredients, Aesthetics Rx use many biotechnology ingredients to create ‘clean’ products that are effective and environmentally friendly.
Biotechnology is the use of living organisms or their products to modify or make products for human use. In skin care, this can include using enzymes to break down dead skin cells, and plant stem cells to create a variety of product types.
Biotech ingredients are made in a lab by scientists using living, naturally derived substances to recreate or produce ingredients similar raw extracts. This way, the land, water and resources typically required in farming are significantly reduced to almost zero.
Through a complex fermentation process, chemists can reproduce cells from plants, with microbes or yeasts to create clean ingredients with the same or better efficacy as their natural counterparts.
Another significant benefit of biotechnology is its ability to consistently produce high-quality ingredients. This is because the conditions in which these ingredients are created can be carefully monitored and controlled, ensuring that each batch is identical, and that quality and consistency are maintained.
There is a difference between biotech Ingredients and synthetic Ingredients. Biotech ingredients are based on naturally derived substances, while synthetic ingredients are derived from chemicals and manufactured in a lab from scratch. Biotechnology is a clean and green way to create ingredients with all the benefits of natural ingredients without negative environmental impact.
Whereas synthetic ingredients are created with chemicals to produce synthetic versions of natural skincare ingredients. Biotechnologists don’t attempt to modify nature and reproduce it with chemicals. Instead, they use living natural extracts, including plant cells, bacteria, and yeast, to grow and produce bioidentical ingredients.
Biotechnology derived ingredients used at Aesthetics Rx:
Abyssine PF
Process: Exopolysaccharide from Alteromonas macleodii subsp. of the ocean obtained by blue biotechnology (fermentation).
Products with this ingredient: Revitalising Foaming Cleanser.
BetaGlucan
Process: Made from oats by a patented technology which refines
Beta-Glucan to produce a highly active soluble fraction.
Products with this ingredient: Microbiome Balancing Mist, Instant Rescue Face Mask.
Biome Oleoactif®
Process: A patented Oléo-éco extraction using bacterial biomass of Anoxybacillus Kamchatkensis
Products with this ingredient: Pre-Juvenation DNA Oil, Anti- Pollution Cleansing Oil, H20 Lipid Balm.
Bromelain
Process: Enzyme extract process of Pineapple.
Product with this ingredient: Fruit Enzyme Mask.
Carica Papaya (Paw Paw) Fermented
Process: Fruit and bacterial fermentation.
Product with this ingredient: Fruit Enzyme Mask.
DermaPeptide Toning
Process:
1. Fermentation of yeast in a defined media at a specific temperature and duration.
2. Aqueous extraction at specific pH and Temperature for a set duration.
3. Addition of Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate.
4. Filtration.
Products with this ingredient: Microbiome Balancing Mist, Revitalising Foaming Cleanser, Refining Mousse Cleanser.
Cristalhyal
Process: The biosynthesis of Cristalhyal may be described briefly in the following 2 key steps:
During the first phase, non-GMO lactic bacteria multiply on an adapted renewable substrate stemming from wheat fractionation.
During the second phase, bacteria are placed under stress conditions. This leads to the production of hyaluronic acid.
The polysaccharide is then concentrated, precipitated using bioethanol, and finally purified.
Products with this ingredient: AHA Cream Cleanser, A Serum, A Serum 1%, B Serum, C Serum 23%, Ultimate Serum, Daily Moisturiser Hydrating, Daily Moisturiser Combination, Anti-Ageing Regeneration Formula, Total Repair DNA Serum, Vital Eye Cream.
Lactic Acid
Process: Glucose fermentation.
Products with this ingredient: Bio-Fermented Triple Action Scrub, Ultimate Serum, Refining Mousse Cleanser.
Papaya Extract
Process: Fermentation.
Products with this ingredient: Bio-Fermented Triple Action Scrub.
Papain
Process: Enzyme extract process of Paw Paw.
Product with this ingredient: Fruit Enzyme Mask.
Pepha Tight
Process: Cultivation and extraction of microalgae.
Product with this ingredient: Total Repair DNA Serum.
PhytoCellTe Malus Domestica
Process: Isolation and culture of apple stem cells.
Product with this ingredient: Anti-Ageing Regeneration Formula.
Polylactic Acid (Ecoscrub, exfoliating beads)
Process: Lactic Acid (from Corn Starch) used as a starting point in creating this ingredient is derived from the bacterial fermentation.
Product with this ingredient: Bio-Fermented Triple Action Scrub.
PrimalHyal 50
Process: Bacterial fermentation.
Product with this ingredient: Total Repair DNA Serum, Vital Eye Cream.
Tasman Pepper AF
Process: Proprietary extraction method using natural solvents.
Product with this ingredient: AHA Cream Cleanser.
Retinaturel
Process: Fermentation of yeast extract by Halobacterium salinum in glycerin.
Product with this ingredient: AHA Cream Cleanser.
Sodium Hyaluronate (HMW & LMW)
Process: Extracted via bacterial fermentation using glucose that is corn derived.
Product with this ingredient: AHA Cream Cleanser, Instant Rescue Face Mask.
VC-IP
Process: Enzymatic process combining Vitamin C from corn with a fatty acid derived from vegetable oil.
Product with this ingredient: Anti-Ageing Regeneration Formula, Daily Moisturiser Hydrating, Vital Eye Cream
YogurtDermal Respiratory Factor
Process:
1. Cells of lactobacillus Bulgaricus are subject to UV Radiation at specific wavelengths.
2. The radiated cells are extracted in water to extract the active Lactobacillus secretions.
3. Active Fraction is isolated using tangential flow filtration.
4. Addition of Leuconostoc/Radish root Ferment & Populus Tremuloides Bark Extract.
Product with this ingredient: Instant Rescue Face Mask.
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