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Biomimicry & Cosmetics
Cosmetics reinvented!
Cosmetic
The global cosmetics market is very dynamic, with an estimated growth rate of 8.8% between 2020 and 2025. As in many sectors, consumer preferences for cosmetics are shifting towards more natural products with a lower environmental impact. Cosmetics market players must therefore adapt.
Biomimicry presents a major technological opportunity for cosmetics:
Consumers are increasingly prioritizing sustainable and environmentally friendly products. For example, in a survey conducted in France, 78% of respondents stated that they valued brand transparency regarding product sustainability.
Therefore, businesses must reinvent themselves to remain competitive by offering more attractive and innovative products. Changes in consumer habits are prompting market players to adapt their product ranges.
New compounds from natural and renewable sources, new functions, better performance, green chemistry… The paths that biomimicry can take to innovate in the cosmetics sector are numerous, and they fit perfectly with the direction that this sector must take to meet the evolving expectations of consumers.
Biomimicry and cosmetics: As a specialist in biomimicry, and drawing on its experience in the field of cosmetics with major players in the sector, Bioxegy is able to make biomimicry an innovative and relevant solution for imagining the cosmetic products of tomorrow.
Organisms thrive in diverse environments with ever-changing constraints. To ensure their survival, they must adopt efficient and sustainable responses. These responses have led to the emergence of a wide variety of compounds with highly diverse properties. Living organisms thus constitute a rich reservoir of effective natural compounds, useful, among other things, for improving the performance of cosmetic products or replacing certain synthetic products with more sustainable alternatives.
Living organisms can also be the source of cosmetics with innovative functions and/or based on new concepts. One example is structural colors. These are not based on pigments but on micro- or nanostructures, as seen in the morpho butterfly (see photo). This type of color is ubiquitous in living organisms, and drawing inspiration from it can lead to the development of colored cosmetic products that do not rely on expensive or toxic synthetic pigments.
