Let’s change the face of cosmetics with the skin microbiome
We use cosmetics to support and enhance our skin. However, consumers are warier than ever of the potential harm that some products can inflict over the short and long term. Some causes for damage—like harsh chemicals—are more obvious to the consumer; others are more insidious and not actively recognised by your target market. That’s why, for cosmetic brands, education around product formulation is more important than ever.
What do your customers need to know about their skin?
The cosmetics industry at large has taught consumers about the specificity of their individual skin types. For example, today’s driven customer will generally aim to find a skincare or beauty product that ‘matches’ their skin needs. Brands seeking to fill this market demand with microbiome-focused products can build on their customers’ knowledge base with the bioscience basics.
Our skin is the largest organ in our body. It serves as a physical barrier to disease and pathogens. It’s also home to millions of bacteria, fungi, and beneficial microorganisms—which we collectively call the skin microbiota.
A healthy skin microbiota can withstand a range of internal and external environmental conditions over time. But these very same conditions are capable of impacting your skin microbiome, for better or for worse. These factors include the local climate, your daily surroundings, the food and drink you consume, the medicine you take, and the products you put on your skin.
A healthy skin microbiota is diverse. That means, to support our skin microbiome, we need to consider how we can nurture the complex ecosystem of our skin via our lifestyle, routine, diet, self-care, and cosmetic products.
Dysbiosis is the term used for skin microbiota that is impacted by disease and chronic conditions like acne, dermatitis, eczema, infections, and more. By studying the skin microbiome, we can better understand how to restore beneficial bacterial balance and healthy microbiota diversity for people with dysbiosis.
Your skin microbiome is more unique than you may realise. In fact, it’s as unique as your fingerprint or DNA. This means finding the ‘right’ health and beauty products for your skin often begins by finding a brand that develops products backed by science, tailored to specific skin needs and meticulously formulated with premium ingredients and manufacturing processes.
Create a product that makes a real difference
Our best advice for brands seeking to make a real difference for their customers? Leave no room for quality compromise or market reproach.
Know your skin
We use DNA sequencing to take a closer look at samples of your customers’ skin microorganisms. After years of research, our highly experienced team brings a wealth of accumulated microbiome knowledge and we help to deliver you product vision that restores and fosters a healthy and diverse skin microbiome.
Know your formulas
The microbiome skin care formulas we develop for our clients are created to protect us from pathogenic bacteria, feed the skin’s good bacteria with pre-biotics, add more good bacteria to the skin with pro-biotics and foster thriving skin microflora with post-biotics.
Know your ingredients
The ingredients we test and then incorporate within our formulas for clients are bioactive—meaning they are selected to beneficially interact with their customers’ skin microbiome to heal, nurture and ultimately restore balance.
Love your end product
When it comes to developing products you can be truly proud of, we leave no stone unturned. As an end-to-end cosmetics manufacturer, we maintain quality assurance and product integrity at each step—prioritising ethical, sustainable and industry-leading practices. This gives you every confidence in your product, from the inside-out.
Discover the difference today
No other Australian contract manufacturer offers the same level of microbial-based ingredients and manufacturing expertise. Talk to our team for a free consultation or quote.